An elite FBI team sent to find a killer in Saudi Arabia. Now they have become the target.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins |
| Director |
Peter Berg |
| Screenplay | Matthew Michael Carnahan |
| Music | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Mauro Fiore |
| Editing | Colby Parker Jr., Kevin Stitt |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | Universal Pictures, Forward Pass, Film 44, Relativity Media, Stuber/Parent, THINKFilm |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Strong and frequent |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Frequent, intense and sustained |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Zane Henry  Hollywood blinkers for Saudi thrill. | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople Die fliek kom effens stadig of dreef, maar daarna is daar geen keer nie. | 10 | |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turan Hackneyed thriller bombs out. | 5 |  |
| iAfrica.com Nils van der Linden Four cardboard cut-out heroes with about as much depth as The A-Team. | 10 | |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman The scripting is intelligent and the sharp build-up and subsequent battle with the perpetrators make for heart-thumping viewing. | 16 |  |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge I was strongly engaged by the film and was entertained throughout. | 10 | |
| BBC Neil Smith Simplistic in the extreme and riddled with clichés, the quality of its execution can't excuse the dubiousness of its premise. | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson The Kingdom is a valiant but ultimately repulsive attempt to recast the war on terror in terms that any Seagal fan can understand. | 5 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Overall, however, the film is smart and engaging, and if it plays a little on our fears of the next big terrorist attack, it does so without feeling exploitative. | 15 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers The Kingdom could have been a jingoistic CSI: Riyadh, and sometimes it is. | 15 | |
| ScreenItAs a shoot 'em up version of those CSI TV shows, it's a crackerjack experience. But you'll need your maps and history books for anything beyond that. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 37 critics | 11 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 169 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Ultimately collapses under the weight of formula and muddled politics. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 7206 Netizens Neither here nor there | 15 | |
Average .. 55% | 11 | |