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The Kingdom
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 23, 2007
  • Originally Released: 2007
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Rotten51%

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Total Count: 186

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 430,293
When it's got the pedal to the metal, which is a substantial fraction of the running time, The Kingdom delivers the goods. Full Review
Film.com
Oct 7, 2007
There's no real difference between choreographing a bloody jihadist skirmish and a gridiron match Full Review
CinePassion
Aug 27, 2009
Sensationally directed by Peter Berg.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Oct 6, 2007
A good deal more Transformers than Syriana, a movie that drapes a crisp, lightly browsed copy of The Economist over an enormous pubescent boner for grinding metal, busted glass, and crackling gunfire. Full Review
Reverse Shot
Aug 8, 2009
Rating: 1/5 -- One-dimensional cartoon nonsense. Full Review
The List
Nov 3, 2018
3 stars out of 4 -- [A] geopolitical thriller, with an emphasis on the thrills...
Rolling Stone
Oct 4, 2007
In spite of a couple of misstep -- like a tacked-on ending and a few too many one-liners --The Kingdom is a serious movie for serious times. Full Review
WORLD
Oct 12, 2018

Product Description:

Actor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their Saudi counterparts maintains an interesting uncertainty about who's "right" and who's "wrong." The bad guys, however, are unmistakable: the film opens with a brutal terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia, where a visiting FBI agent is killed. Back home in Washington, fellow agents Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx, RAY) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner, ALIAS), want revenge, and will do whatever it takes to gain access to the investigation. Fleury all but blackmails a Saudi prince to get clearance against the wishes of a timorous attorney general, and flies overnight to the scene of the crime. Accompanying him are the no-nonsense forensics expert Mayes, Southern-fried bomb authority Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper, ADAPTATION), and Jewish smart aleck Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT). Once there, they encounter the resistance of a Saudi government more interested in getting the Americans safely out of the country and avoiding conflict, rather than in solving the crime. They are assigned a smarmy handler with a weak stomach (Jeremy Piven, ENTOURAGE) to make sure they stay out of trouble. The team must navigate a maze of bureaucracy to begin collecting evidence, but they have an unlikely ally in their Saudi escort, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom, PARADISE NOW), a scrupulous and intelligent officer whom Fleury befriends. Soon enough, procedure and protocol give way to car chases and explosive fire fights, and the current bleak political climate of extremism and violence is portrayed in a stark light with no easy answers.

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  • UPC: 025195005920
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