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By Dave Calhoun (583) for Time Out (7,510) on 04 Oct 2007

A terrifically stupid film. Dumb, dumb, dumb…

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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 04 Oct 2007

Has a kind of rough-hewn, B-movie appeal and energy, and it doesn't scrimp on its promise of putting evildoers in crosshairs…

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By Tim Evans (725) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 04 Oct 2007

Think Team America with the radiators turned up…

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By Helen O'hara (407) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 04 Oct 2007

Not quite as smart as it wants to be, and a better action movie than it is a political thriller, this is still a heart-pounding drama…

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By Gina Carbone (187) for Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (187) on 03 Oct 2007

The film is edited for ADHD patients off their meds and even includes a glorious opening sequence with Middle East for dummies info-graphics…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for EURWeb (43) on 03 Oct 2007

A combination flick, part psychological thriller, part pyrotechnic patriotic spectacular, which works somehow despite considerable conceptual…

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By John P. Mccarthy (315) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 02 Oct 2007

The Kingdom' is ugly not because it's jingoistic or anti-Islam, but because it fiddles with those buttons so shamelessly…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 01 Oct 2007

It has no particular story, it is not especially stylish and it's not emotionally resonant…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 01 Oct 2007

Director Peter Berg cannily hypes the tension and the sentiment in the only one of the current Middle East political movies designed to appeal…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Oct 2007

Peter Berg is a superb action director, and he brings a relentless intensity and gravity to the violence…

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By Rob Nelson (320) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Sep 2007

One could say [director Peter Berg] shoots first and asks questions later, if at all…

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By Christopher Smith (624) for Bangor Daily News (Maine) (624) on 29 Sep 2007

If this film underscores anything, it's just how deeply we still misunderstand the Middle East and how our culture--in this case, pop culture--completely…

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By Jean Lowerison (512) for San Diego Metropolitan (486) on 28 Sep 2007

Is it a good film? Not especially, though you can't go too far wrong with Chris Cooper in any cast, and he alone raises the quality a notch or two…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 28 Sep 2007

Offers the satisfaction of a crowd-pleasing police procedural -- the mystery is solved; the bad guys are caught -- tempered with the uneasiness…

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By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Film Threat (5,156) on 28 Sep 2007

Whatever other problems it caused, at least [9-11] solved our cinematic villain dilemma for the foreseeable future…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Sep 2007

This is a good time of year for an exciting, thought provoking action drama, before all the award fever hits the theaters…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for UGO (350) on 28 Sep 2007

Every moment in The Kingdom is shrouded with the threat of violence, until it finally explodes in a last reel that's one of the most heart-pounding…

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By Kit Bowen (393) for Hollywood.com (1,014) on 28 Sep 2007

Part CSI, part Syriana, part Jack Ryan story, The Kingdom is an action thriller that switches things up but still keeps you on the edge of your sea…

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By Russ Breimeier (80) for Christianity Today (953) on 28 Sep 2007

Sometimes fun, sometimes powerful, but ultimately flawed. It promises action, but only delivers a little, decrying it while delighting in it…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 27 Sep 2007

Berg tries to appeal to the post-9/11 action fan who wants to cheer a vengeful us-vs.-them bloodbath while also furrowing his brow over the…

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