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The Kingdom [HD DVD] [2007] | ![The Kingdom [HD DVD] [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KqQ7NtPrL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Peter Berg
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Chris Cooper, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
List Price: £24.99
Buy New: £10.00
You Save: £14.99 (60%)
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 16346
Format: Pal
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: HD DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 110
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050582545234
ASIN: B001282E12
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Hollywood as Bully and Coward January 8, 2009
If you like action flicks with exploding cars and more bullets flying than in some wars, then youll enjoy this film. The basic plot is good and the actors are talented. However, two major flaws may spoil your enjoyment.
The first is driven a genre that demands violence, violence and more violence. Its FBI agents are more like Rambo than real agents. Theyre too proficient at street combat with automatic weapons to be believable, and theyre too obsessed with a revenge-filled killing them all to be real pros. Good investigators dont gun down the little guys in a crime. They use them to get to the big guys.
The second problem is more serious. Hollywoodin this case Universal Picturesis absolute terrified by terrorism and it shows in the films they are producing. Illustrating that the bully and coward often inhabit the same skin, the films bullying bloat of violence closes with a cowardly pairing of scenes where the terrorists murder of children on a playground is equated to the FBIs pursuit of terrorists. Its Hollywoods way of saying to terrorists, Blow up a school or a subway, but leave us alone. Were harmless. More worthless than harmless, Id say.
Imagine a film like Patton closing with scenes that equate the U.S. Third Army crossing the Rhine with the Nazi S.S. at Auschwitz, and you get a taste of just how foul the ending to this film is.
Michael W. Perry, editor of Dachau Liberated
 Racist Propaganda USA style November 18, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
...Yet another quasi-epic celluloid abortion by a flag-sucking American racist director Peter Teeth Berg, which has the super-human Jamie Fox gallivanting around Saudi Arabia with other FBI agents (vapid plot), spouting war-wisdom and trying to infiltrate a terrorist cell, and all the while it implies that America is good and everyone else is not, particularly if they look Middle-Eastern.
By the end of this racist drivel the movie itself becomes such a flag waving rah-rah show that it's like TEAM AMERICA with real people and taking itself seriously.
Meanwhile, (in almost every scene) the eye candy (Jennifer Garner) looks on longingly while clutching a massive machine gun.
 "High Def exclusive!" January 15, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
'The Kingdom' is a gripping thriller that will certainly pick up new fans that missed its theatrical run. This HD DVD edition features a sharp and faithful transfer, a decent but disappointing Dolby Digital Plus audio mix, and an impressive array of standard and exclusive supplemental features. While this release doesn't get everything perfect, it is another impressive offering from Universal that will satisfy anyone who enjoyed the film.
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