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Article: Arabian Knights; THE BIG PICTURE The Kingdom (Cert 15) Starring: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman and Jeremy Piven; director Peter Berg. 110 mins Rating: **** film.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- October 5, 2007
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Byline: Philip Key
FOR A second time, the so-called War on Terror supplies the plot for a Hollywood movie. Unlike the fact-based A Mighty Heart, however, The Kingdom is pure fiction with lots of big bangs and gun battles.
Director Peter Berg and scriptwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan do attempt to give The
Kingdom a sense of reality and, for much of the time, it works.
The uneasy mixture of politics and violence in the Middle East is sensitively explored but is eventually abandoned in favour of gung-ho American heroics.
While it does put the film out of kilter, it does provide an undeniably exciting finale.
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