Saturday, June 28, 2008

I hadn’t planned on watching The Kingdom because I figured it was just one more Hollywood portrayal of Americans as pseudo-good guys who really end up being bad guys. But then I heard director Peter Berg interviewed by Laura Ingraham and I moved it up on the queue. He’s directing the movie adaption of Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, and based on what he said about that movie, I plan to see it.

Anyway, I suppose some can take that thought away from the movie - Beau sort of did with the way it ended; I didn’t.

When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing.

The movie is very good and I like it a lot.

4 stars out of 5.

[UPDATE 6/30]: I updated the post because there was a whole thread that I forgot to include when I was posting yesterday. I got distracted and never came back to fix it.