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HERE IS THE SUMMARY FOR THE MOVIE THE KINGDOM FROM IMDB

When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team (Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman) and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol-and with the clock ticking on their five days-the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer's front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won't stop until justice is found in The Kingdom. Written by Universal Pictures

HERE IS A REVIEW FOR THE MOVIE THE KINGDOM FROM DVDTALK

Note to Hollywood filmmaking preachers: we know the "enemy" is just like us, and that we share the same hopes and fears...we get it! "The Kingdom" is a 70-million-dollar lesson in the obvious, costumed up as a brainless action film, but still preoccupied with teaching a master class in being grotesquely manipulative and shamefully transparent.

When a suicide bombing takes down an American community located in the heart of Saudi Arabia, a small FBI taskforce (Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, and Chris Cooper), led by Ronald Fluery (Jamie Foxx), is sent in to investigate the remains of the blast site and hunt for the terrorist group responsible. Now inside the country, the freedoms Ronald and his team are accustomed to have been restricted by a new chain of command, forcing the elite squad to use their own tricks and methods of communication to locate the source of the hostility, putting their own lives in the line once enemies find Americans digging around foreign soil.

In several cringing ways, "Kingdom" covers the exact same ground as 1999's "Three Kings." Both films have a lust to be both a strident political statement and jingoistic action blockbuster, but I'm not convinced the mix should be allowed, or perhaps I haven't seen a filmmaker talented enough to pull off such a dichotomy. Here, the director is Peter Berg ("Very Bad Things," "The Rundown," "Friday Night Lights"), who has yet to meet a sickening camera quake or cheap audience-baiting tool he didn't like. Berg is a seasoned vet when it comes to "of the moment" movies, but that doesn't make him competent. It just makes him twitchy and chaotic.

"The Kingdom," however, doesn't offer much chaos for Berg to push around. If you read elsewhere that "Kingdom" is "non-stop action," you have my permission to slap that writer in the face. The picture is actually quite a sluggish production, playing like "CSI: Saudi Arabia," and taking its time trying to pack an elaborate sand castle of a plot containing political intrigue and procedural minutiae. Led by a subtle, refined performance from Jamie Foxx, "Kingdom" has moments of triumphant suspense and affable Team USA bonding, complete with Bateman as the clich�d wisecracking wuss.

Trust me when I write that you've seen this movie before. You've heard this dialogue. You've seen these performances. As a selection of commentary on Middle East politics and social graces, "Kingdom" is not offering anything novel, and what's here is barely of interest. Berg can tart up the film with nauseating shaky-cam work and orgasmic gunfire, but the only ingredient that's going to make the film as relevant and powerful as it is in Berg's head is innovation. "Kingdom" is woefully short-sheeted in that department.

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