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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 27 Sep 2007

Director Peter Berg's frenetic style heightens tension and a sense of disorientation. But some will find its chaotic quality dizzying and off-putting…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 27 Sep 2007

The Kingdom may be the most potent counter-programming of the year, even though it has no patience with such sissy-pants concerns…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 27 Sep 2007

From a moviemaking point of view, The Kingdom is close to flawless, a model of bluntly efficient story-telling…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 27 Sep 2007

The opening is spectacular, but the rest is fairly routine…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 27 Sep 2007

Wants to be both a hot-button, ripped-from-the-headlines statement movie and a crowd-pleasing, rip-roaring action thriller…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Sep 2007

The heroes of Peter Berg's gung-ho retribution tale are fighting the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here, but his film…

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By Jack Mathews (1,044) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 27 Sep 2007

Berg has an excellent eye for violent extravaganza and the action - especially a 10-15 minute set piece midway through - is as cleansing as…

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By Connie Ogle (690) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 27 Sep 2007

Though its violence is searing and brutal, the film, about four FBI agents investigating a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, shows a conscience…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 27 Sep 2007

Sinks into a jingoistic action film cliché…

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By Dezhda Gaubert (73) for E! Online (838) on 27 Sep 2007

Breathless action sequences are balanced with a sensitive interpretation of the political and cultural gray areas of (Mid)East-West relations…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 27 Sep 2007

From a literally explosive beginning to its high-octane end, The Kingdom is rocking-good mainstream moviemaking: painfully topical, edge-of-the-seat…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 27 Sep 2007

A lot of satisfying, entertaining action pictures have only an artificial brain to power the machinery…

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By Sid Smith (61) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 27 Sep 2007

The Kingdom has a heart and a viewpoint. It’s a thrill ride with a lingering thought or two in its wake…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 27 Sep 2007

At its core this is just another piece of big-studio nothingness…

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By Wade Major (240) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 27 Sep 2007

Director Peter Berg has come a long way since his days as an unremarkable character actor, and this follow-up to Friday Night Lights confirms it…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (137) on 27 Sep 2007

Even in clearly diluted form, the film wrestles - or at least grapples and slaps - with questions and interpretations of the Middle East…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 27 Sep 2007

Berg doesn't let up on the tension, even when the action is bloodless…

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By John Wirt (638) for Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (638) on 27 Sep 2007

The Kingdom uses explosive current events as the starting point for a fictional film that strains to stir emotions, seemingly instill tolerance…

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By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 27 Sep 2007

The most disquieting concept of such a search-and-destroy terrorist mission is much like what happens with the mythical Hydra creature: when…

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By Kurt Loder (858) for MTV (492) on 27 Sep 2007

Even Jamie Foxx can't redeem a standard action flick with simple-minded political pretensions…

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