The Stranger, September 27th, 2007
The Kingdom
dir. Peter Berg
Movies designed to be "of the moment" face a significant hurdle: Go breezy on the intricacies of the material and risk eggheaded wrath; get cerebral and watch the general audiences scatter. Much like the similarly themed In the Valley of Elah, The Kingdom is a Big, Important movie that feels much more successful when it downshifts into a simple genre picture-in this case, a rock 'em, sock 'em action flick. Given the relevance of its subject matter, this is a bit of a problem.
Matthew Michael Carnahan's script follows a vengeance-minded FBI forensics team (consist...
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