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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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By Michelle Orange (458) for Reeler (63) on 27 Sep 2007

A kill-'em-all action flick that attempts to elevate itself with clumsy, rock 'n roll politics, dropping actual names and articles of political…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 27 Sep 2007

A slick, brutishly effective genre movie: Syriana for dummies…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) 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 Pam Grady (384) for Reel.com (1,232) on 27 Sep 2007

It is evident that Berg may someday make a truly great movie. The simplistic, jingoistic The Kingdom is not it…

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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 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 Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 26 Sep 2007

The climactic showdown between the baddies who just can't let our heroes go without incident is a non-stop guns-a-blazing assault that Berg…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 26 Sep 2007

Convincing technical details gathered for the purpose of a good yarn with only the vaguest connection to the grown-up world…

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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 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

While it stays well short of a daring political statement, it effectively hints in just about every frame that the U.S…

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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 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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