It has been getting a bit colder lately and we haven’t been going out as much. However, we did get to the movies on Friday evening to see The Kingdom.
Set in Saudi Arabia an FBI team is whisked in to investigate an attack inside an American civil compound. They are there to gather evidence and uncover the culprits as they don’t trust the Saudi teams working on the case. Starring Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner and Justin Bates it was a bit violent for my liking. It was obvious the film was trying to instil in its viewers that the “war on terror” is about the motivations of extremist groups and must be seperated from lumping everyone into the same category just because they follow the muslim faith. It achieves this through cheesy and obvious “peeks” into the family lives of the key muslim characters. In all I was quite glad for the movie to end. For one because I really don’t think Jennifer Garner can act and for the other as said before it was too violent for my tastes.
Rating for this movie? I would give this a 3 out of 10. Really not my genre at the moment. Steve however rates this a 7 out of 10. I leave it to you to make your own judgement on this one.