Comes out at the end of this month.
I got to watch it a few weeks ago and it was pretty good. Anyone else catch the sneak preview?

The audience was cheering and clapping towards the end. But at the very end it gets all "humans are pathetic and will never learn to co-exist" preachy...which I liked.


It's directed by Peter Berg (actor in tons of movies, recently Smokin Aces...and he directed Friday Night Lights)

Stars
Jamie Foxx
Jennifer Garner
Jason Bateman
Jeremy Piven (has part wasn't really that big)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0431197/

9/4/2007 3:09:19 AM

I saw the preview awhile back and I definitely want to see it.
Glad to hear it was good.

9/4/2007 11:20:13 AM

Just saw the sneak preview at Witherspoon, and it was fucking awesome. There was a lot of applause and cheering toward the end at ours too, and I thought it was a very shocking and brutally realistic, fair look into such a heated topic as Islamic extremism and the cultural schism between the east and west held together by money and oil.

9/12/2007 9:47:27 PM

durka's everywhere

9/12/2007 10:15:10 PM

I heard that even Jennifer Garner was able to portray a character of value.

Amazing.

9/12/2007 10:52:09 PM

9/12/2007 11:08:14 PM

saw the sneak preview at witherspoon and i thought it was really sweet. i see jamie foxx turning into the next denzel.

[Edited on September 13, 2007 at 12:42 AM. Reason : ]

9/13/2007 12:38:13 AM

Is jamie foxx a good dramatic actor?

9/13/2007 12:39:55 AM

he is... but tim mcgraw who makes an appearance is not

9/13/2007 12:44:56 AM

I saw this a few weeks ago at the Raleigh Grande and was not impressed. It's a good-looking movie, but it tries to be both a social commentary piece and a mindless shoot-em-up at the same time and the combination is weird.

I guess they felt, in this age of Political Correctness, that they had to make sure they made it well known that there are good Saudis, too, so the movie wasn't just a few Americans killing the hell out of a bunch of evil Saudi terrorists. It kind of makes me miss the good ole days where they just shot the fuck out of all of them and no one cared if there were good guys there, too, so long as they killed the hordes of bad guys.

Also, it felt like it wanted to be "Three Kings" - many of the same tones, themes, juxtapositions. It felt so similar, in fact, that by the time "The Kingdom" ended I really wished that I had just sat at home and watched "Three Kings" instead, because it's so much better.

9/13/2007 12:05:36 PM

yeah now that I think about it there were a lot of loose ends and clues that never got followed up on, but I love a good shoot em up and I liked the fact that they tried to make it a little more than just a mindless action/suspense movie. Never seen Three Kings so I couldn't compare that...

9/13/2007 12:29:42 PM

i've wanted to see this since i saw a preview for it...i wish i kept up with on campus shit cause i woulda went to witherspoon to see it

9/25/2007 5:26:11 AM

honestly I might even go see it again, i enjoyed it

9/25/2007 8:18:35 AM

just got back from seeing it at the crossroads advanced screening and I thought it was a VERY good movie

the last 30 minutes are intense

Jamie Foxx is a damn good actor

I highly recommend it

9/27/2007 9:55:13 PM

bump for this coming out tomorrow and being an awesome movie

9/28/2007 12:41:48 AM

It was definitely a great movie.
I would like to see it again when it comes out on dvd without the girls behind me going "mm mm, no way girl" every two minutes.

9/28/2007 10:46:07 AM

^^it came out today, not tomorrow.

9/28/2007 11:07:00 AM

^ REEAAAALLLLY?

obviously I wrote that just after midnight Thursday...which still felt whole lot like Thursday at the time.

9/29/2007 2:50:11 AM

You know that part in the commercial where jamie foxx is saying something dramatic and tense?

I don't understand one word of it.

9/29/2007 3:17:00 AM

very good movie all around with some serious ass messages at the end

10/1/2007 10:39:13 AM

^^^yeah i figured that out but was too lazy to edit post.

I've seen this movie twice already and it is by far one of my favorite movies of the year.

10/1/2007 3:14:03 PM

the ending was pretty sweet, didnt see it coming. good ending. good movie. the last 20 minutes are intense

10/4/2007 2:19:33 AM

kickass movie, I'm surprised it got such a low rating on rotten tomatoes

10/6/2007 11:29:10 PM

those are the critic ratings... the user ratings are 30%+ higher....

10/8/2007 2:05:11 PM

very good movie, but im not sure i get the ending, jamie fox tells the girls "we'll kill them all"?

after he had that experience? it didnt fit...

10/10/2007 11:52:08 PM

he told her that before he experienced it... when they had just found out about the bombing

10/10/2007 11:58:54 PM

oh, that makes sense, its just a vicious cycle of violence

10/11/2007 12:02:23 AM

good movie

12/12/2007 11:35:25 PM

i still want to see this

12/12/2007 11:39:43 PM