The Kingdom

The Kingdom was a good film. I wouldn't rave about it, but it was worth seeing.

Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Gardner, Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman play four FBI agents who head to Riyadh when there is a terrible terrorist attack on a compound housing Western workers. They have five days to determine who, what and how the bombings occurred. They are restricted in their movements by the Saudi police who are holding their own investigation into the incident. Foxx and co eventually win over the Colonel who is assigned to them. They convince Colonel Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Bahom) that they are more capable of investigating the bombing than the Saudi authorities - particularly when it becomes evident that it was Saudi who planned the attack.

The movie obviously has its faults. Rather than looking into the reasons behind the attack, it really only looking at the difficulties encountered by the FBI, and not the motivation behind the Saudi's wanting to keep the whole thing in-house.

The final scenes however, particularly involving conversations in two separate countries, demonstrates that people, no matter their religion or nationality, are really very much alike.

You don't necessarily need to see this one at the cinema, but I would recommend watching it at some point. It really was quite good.