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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 26 Sep 2007

A surprisingly nuanced exploration of the sincere desire held by many in this country to make the US the good guy around the globe -- the white…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 26 Sep 2007

None of the three parts of this movie get a sufficient chance to breathe, grow, add some depth and complexity or grab our attention for more…

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By Tony Medley (1,109) for tonymedley.com (461) on 26 Sep 2007

Although the actors are good, this is a director's movie. Berg keeps the interest and tension at a high level throughout…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 26 Sep 2007

The Kingdom serves its purpose as a Hollywood action film, but there are numerous missed opportunities and faults that prevent it from reaching…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Salon.com (2,725) on 26 Sep 2007

The Kingdom is distasteful in several obvious and irrefutable ways: For one thing, the idea of setting an action-thriller against terrorist…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 26 Sep 2007

The pacing is just right, shifting deftly between procedural road blocks and high-energy action sequences that wouldn't be out of place in…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 26 Sep 2007

Foxx is magnetic in the lead, and the subplot in which he bonds with his Saudi police liaison (Ashraf Barhom, giving the movie's best performance)…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 26 Sep 2007

As an exercise in eye-for-an-eye wish fulfillment, this laser-like focus on the bad guys is something of a relief, although, inevitably, a…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 26 Sep 2007

I left the theater completely uncertain about what the filmmakers intended to say about the orgiastic bloodshed they showed me…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Sep 2007

The filmmakers's attempts to balance out the gung-ho shoot-'em-ups with an overlay of fairness are rudimentary…

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By Desson Thomson (1,673) for Washington Post (9,851) on 26 Sep 2007

One electrifying performance becomes the only saving grace of The Kingdom, a goofy action movie that tries to marry the blitzkrieg entertainment…

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By Boo Allen (301) for Denton Record-Chronicle (383) on 26 Sep 2007

Noisy and empty-headed, but flashy enough to remain entertaining…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Sep 2007

Quickly degenerates from a serious topical tale about twenty-first century terrorism into a jingoistic gung-ho shoot-'em-up…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (630) on 26 Sep 2007

the movie's ending shoves any rah-rahs right back into your throat…

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By John Thomason (91) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 26 Sep 2007

The Kingdom doesn't think much of its audience; it's one of those movies that shows flashbacks of things that happened 30 minutes earlier,…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 26 Sep 2007

Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan wants us to know that there are good Arabs and bad Arabs, but he panders to our basest 9/11 anxieties…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 26 Sep 2007

[A] stripped-down, no-nonsense reality alarm about cycles of hate and violence that we must be fully cognizant of if we're ever to break them…

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By Matt Brunson (2,422) for Creative Loafing (2,337) on 25 Sep 2007

Basically a Rambo retread outfitted with a thin veneer of topical import…

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By Sean Mcbride (367) for Sean the Movie Guy (367) on 25 Sep 2007

One of those films that tries to be a little bit of everything, and for the most part succeeds, even if audiences may not be able to survive…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 25 Sep 2007

Overall, the film is smart and engaging, and if it plays a little on our fears of the next big terrorist attack, it does so without feeling…

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