DVD Review: The Kingdom

The Kingdom
Directed by Peter Berg
Starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Available Dec. 23, 2007

The Kingdom is this year’s Miami Vice. What does that mean, you ask? Well, one, only the smartest people and the ones who pay close attention will REALLY know what’s going on. Secondly, it’s really pretty. And third, Michael Mann is the producer. I’m not one to criticize Mann unless the movie is Ali and Manhunter. I don’t even like Heat as much as most. But I will admit that when Mann wants to have fun, he does have fun. Unlike that other Michael skid-mark that thinks that robots sticking their fists up each other’s corn-shooters would be “fun,” Michael Mann and director Peter Berg shoot a film that is divided into two-halves -- the first being a crime scene and the second being a nonstop action-thriller...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

Movie Review: The Kingdom

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!

DVD Review: Friday Night Lights (TV)

Ok, how many of you assumed that Friday Night Lights was just Dawson's Creek with football?

Yeah, me too. I kept seeing the commercials for the show and I can honestly say, I had no interest. Then I found out that I was going to get the complete first season on DVD for review and I immediately assigned it to someone else. But as fate would have it, the DVD arrived too late for me to send it out. So guess who got stuck watching 22 episodes of Friday Night Lights this weekend?

That's right, me, and I'm glad I did because after watching the pilot, I was like, "This is the best fucking show."...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!