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In The Kingdom, a good friend means everything. FBI special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) puts together a special team (Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman) for a mission inside Saudi Arabia to capture a terrorist responsible for a vicious attack on Americans. The agents are befuddled by the foreign culture they find themselves in, until a native police captain helps them to deal with the streets of Riyadh. Compelling writing gives the film's events a certain gravity, as the movie keeps you wondering what will happen next. The depiction of mass murder and violence is tricky here and may end too didactically for many. War on the silver screen is fantastic, but it's also looking more and more clichéd. - forrest green III


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