Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3532 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-01-05
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 110 minutes

Synopsis
Actor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their Saudi counterparts maintains an interesting uncertainty about who's 'right' and who's 'wrong'. The bad guys, however, are unmistakable: the film opens with a brutal terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia, where a visiting FBI agent is killed. Back home in Washington, fellow agents Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx, RAY) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner, ALIAS) want revenge, and will do whatever it takes to gain access to the investigation. Fleury all but blackmails a Saudi prince to get clearance against the wishes of a timorous attorney general, and flies overnight to the scene of the crime. Accompanying him are the no-nonsense forensics expert Mayes, Southern-fried bomb authority Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper, ADAPTATION), and smart aleck Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT). Once there, they encounter the resistance of a Saudi government more interested in getting the Americans safely out of the country and avoiding conflict, rather than in solving the crime. They are assigned a smarmy handler with a weak stomach (Jeremy Piven, ENTOURAGE) to make sure they stay out of trouble. The team must navigate a maze of bureaucracy to begin collecting evidence, but they have an unlikely ally in their Saudi escort, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom, PARADISE NOW), a scrupulous and intelligent officer whom Fleury befriends. Soon enough, procedure and protocol give way to car chases and explosive fire fights, and the bleak political climate of extremism and violence is portrayed in a stark light with no easy answers.

Customer Reviews

Its a film, not a political broadcast!
This a quality film, despite what the other 2 bored left wing radicalists say... (please get over yourselves.You clearly have issues with american foreign policy and are no doubt smart enough to know what Hollywood is like, so why watch it, and wind yourselves up??)
It is edge of the seat stuff, with REALLY well recreated action scenes. If you've got a hangover and are not feeling too clever this is definitely the film for you! Jamie Foxx is cool as ever. See it!

Huge potential but short of 5 stars
This was one of the big disappointments of last year's movies.
A CIA team tavels to Saudi Arabia to investigate a terorist attack.

The acting lets the fims down a bit apart from a brilliant newcomer Ashraf Barhom ( watch this guy ) who plays a Saudi Colonel.

The plot is really good with good action shots and makes the movie have a fast pace , however is nearly ruined by two things ; the Americans are inmune to bullets fired from arab guns ( the arabs get it all the time ) and the final bit in the aparment block is precarious to say the least.

The production is ellegant and makes the movie more appealing as action movie than as a deep political drama. Siryana is a movie that can be compared to this , the former addressed the political aspect 100 times better.

A missed oportunity but entertaining.

Seriously poor
regardless of the so called 'message' this film is getting accross, the film is just really poor. The characters you could care less about and the film is very forgettable. There is a reason why the SD DVD is incredibly cheap....its rubbish.