Synopsis
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
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Cast
- Jamie FoxxRonald Fleury
- Jennifer GarnerJanet Mayes
- Chris CooperGrant Sykes
- Jason BatemanAdam Leavitt
- Ali SulimanSergeant Haytham
- Jeremy PivenDamon Schmidt
- Ashraf BarhomColonel Faris Al Ghazi
- Richard JenkinsRobert Grace
- Tim McGrawAaron Jackson
- Kyle ChandlerFrancis Manner
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
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 exploitative. - 75
Rolling Stone
Matthew Michael Carnahan's caffeinated script isn't much concerned with balance, but it gets some anyway, from the resonant images of culture clash that Berg catches on the fly and a remarkable performance from Ashraf Barhom. - 70
Variety
A realist thriller that mixes crowd-pleasing mayhem with provocative politics. - 70
Village Voice
A timely--if tepid--fantasy of American vengeance on the Qutbian extremists of Saudi Arabia. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Sensationally directed by Peter Berg, it’s a combination forensics detective movie (car bomb blows up secure American compound in Saudi Arabia--who dunnit and how can we stop him from doing it again?) and red-meat waste-the-terrorists action picture. - 70
Newsweek
As a genre movie, The Kingdom delivers atmosphere, heroic American derring-do and some decent thrills, though director Peter Berg's approximation of a jerky documentary style suffers from its proximity to the more textured "Bourne Ultimatum." - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Berg's movie is no more than an action movie with an exotic backdrop. That would be fine, if only the movie were more exciting. It succeeds neither as a pointed political commentary nor as a taut thriller. - 60
The New Yorker
A thumper of a movie, full of furious souls.
