Peter Berg, director of Very Bad Things and actor in such films as Smokin’ Aces, Collateral, and The Great White Hype, gets behind the camera again, this time emulating master Michael Mann’s own visual style in a brilliant FBI crime drama embedded deep within foreign soil in The Kingdom, a film about a crack team of agents that hits Saudi Arabian sand to uncover the mad militant strategist behind a horribly brutal orchestration that left one FBI agent dead.
At its heart, The Kingdom is a film about two cultures diametrically opposed in political philosophy, religion, and social norms that must work together to ferret out the radical Muslim fundamentalist behind an attack on an small American community in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Spurred by the recent attack Special Agent Ronald Fleury (played by Jamie Foxx), who has a knack for talking himself into and out of any given situation, maneuvers his political chess pieces, navigating bureaucratic red tape and assembles an elite group of FBI field operatives -- Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner), and Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) -- to travel to Riyadh and find out who planned the strike that killed their friend, all in the limited time span of a week...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!
Monday, October 1, 2007
Movie Review: The Kingdom
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