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Reid 2022-03-21 09:01:45
Combining Action Movies and CSI
Geoffrey Eu summed it up ironically in Buiness Times' film review:
"The subject matter may give the impression that The Kingdom has a serious message to convey, but don't look too hard beyond the explosions because you won't find anything except a well-staged Hollywood yarn.” (Plenty of Heroes in... -
Lynn 2021-11-20 08:01:27
Good
Very good, it is reminiscent of the stolen line of fire. But the content contained in it is undoubtedly more shocking, especially the processing at the end, which can be called a model. Peter Borg is still very general. The last large section is still a bit dizzy. Many people think that...
Gino Salvano
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Adelle 2022-03-24 09:01:41
Such a handheld style 11 years ago should be considered characteristic. The story and characters themselves are tedious and American-centrism offensive, but it's impressive to think that Hollywood has become so adept at being innovative and visually stimulating.
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Tiara 2022-04-22 07:01:15
The film begins by explaining the "reciprocal exchanges" between the United States and Saudi Wahhabi radicals in the Middle East, and then begins the story of a real bombing in 1996. When the FBI, led by Jamie Foxx, learned that 200 U.S. citizens had been killed, including their friends, of course, they did everything they could to fight back. In the context of official diplomacy, Jamie used the trump card of threatening to expose the Saudi royal scandal to get involved in the bombing investigation. This series of actions suits Jamie Foxx's style all the time. However, in the Middle East of radical ethnic hatred, they were not really treated as guests. Jamie then gains further privileges in the standoff with the Saudi prince. And they did get clues, but still, the diplomacy behind them had to stop them. Just as they were about to turn back to the United States, they were attacked by Wahhabi militants who had already targeted them.
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Adam Leavitt: [Asking about Saudi Arabia] What's it like there on the ground?
Grant Sykes: A bit... like... Mars.
Adam Leavitt: Mars? Sounds like I didn't pack right.
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Attorney General Gideon Young: [reading] Contrary to the State Department policy, the FBI has sent an investigative team to Saudi Arabia. In so doing, I have come before this committee with a painful admission. I have lost all confidence in the FBI. Especially its uppermost echelon.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [to Director Grace] That's you, baby.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [continues reading] Entrenched and outmoded, the leadership has show itself fearful of the pioneering thoughts this committee and I have tried to imbue. It is thus an agency at contretemps hindering our every effort.
Attorney General Gideon Young: [to Director Gates] And by "committee", I mean the fucking Senate Select Committee on Terror.
FBI Director James Grace: So you're going before the Senate Select Committee and not to the President who appointed you. Why is that? I bet the President wasn't the audience you thought he'd be. I'll bet the President realized that you can't have voters asking why the second-longed serving FBI director got fired for doing his job. For sending agents to Saudi Arabia just seven months before mid-term elections.
Attorney General Gideon Young: So you want to bet?
FBI Director James Grace: Mister Attorney General, I obviously already have. I bet my job.
Attorney General Gideon Young: I'm gonna bury you.
FBI Director James Grace: You know, Westmoreland made all of us officers writer our own obituaries during Tet. When we thought the Cong were going to end it all right there. And once we clued into the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn't scare us anymore. The end comes no matter what. The only thing that matters is how do you want to go out? On your feet or on your knees? I bring that lesson to this job. I act, knowing that someday this job will end no matter what.
FBI Director James Grace: You should do the same.
