Friday 30 January 2009

The Kingdom (2007)

[Movie 49 / Day 30]


In a small compound in Saudi Arabia, a compound that's home to Americans working out there, terrorists attack and indiscriminately kill many.

Four FBI agents (Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman) get permission to enter Saudi Arabia for 5 days in order to investigate. They form a friendship with the Saudi police captain that is assigned to babysit them and manage to track down one of the terrorist bases. Obviously, the terrorists don't like that so much and try and kill them all before kidnapping one of the agents with the intention of executing him on video... Much gunplay ensues.

Foxx is pretty good as the ice cold team leader, Garner is hot but a little too not-a-hair-out-of-place, Cooper is excellent as he is in most things and Bateman plays the sarcastic joker character pretty well. Special mention to Jeremy Piven who crops up as the guy from the US Embassy, cos he's ace.

It's a pretty good film, nothing overly special, but enjoyable nonetheless.

My rating: 7.5 / 10
IMDB rating: 7.2 / 10
Running time: 110 mins
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