Touches You

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

hyped garbage

Absolutely Fantastic

Peter Berg's penchant for telling a gripping tale set in the modern world is on full display in The Kingdom. By showing both the American and Saudi perspectives in this fictional yet familiar scenario, Berg elevates an already intense story about an FBI team on a mission to solve a terrorist attack that claimed one of their own.

I couldn't even finish this film because they used that shaky camera technique and it was making me dizzy and made the movie hard to follow. I don't know why filmmakers use that. It doesn't add to the artistic quality of the movie at all. In fact it messes it up. Please Directors out there, don't use the shaky camera technique!

I was quite into this movie for the first 50 minutes. OK I found Jamie Foxx a bit hard to believe as a high ranking FBI agent but the subject matter made up for that. As others mentioned I too was distracted by the camera work at times, mainly when it was just two people talking, not so important in the action scenes. And therein lies the rub for me, the final big shoot out. Pure Hollywood yet again, 4 Americans and one Saudi enter the fray...guess who gets killed! Now I'm sure the FBI are well trained but are we really to believe a forensic examiner, an intelligence analyst, a bomb technician and a Special Agent are so adept at counter guerrilla warfare, dodging RPG rounds, thousands of rounds of incoming bullets from above and ground level? All this plus killing every bad guy in the area before storming a building to exact a rescue operation and catch the bad guys...where astonishingly no guards were posted on the staircase or outside the flats where they were holed up! Seriously it was like watching a cross between Rambo and Special Ops on steroids...completely ruined the whole film for me I'm afraid.

I very much enjoyed this thought provoking film. The script offers a clue as to why there is such hostility to the U S A in the middle east. A tense and action packed drama, which goes right to the wire. Having seen a few of these U S versus fanatics of middle eastern origin, in war zones, they seem to have a common problem. The viewing pleasure is undermined by poor sound quality. The issue is so problematic, that if viewers of T V Film packages demanded a sub title option, then something might be done, to offer an improvement. I would have given this film a 9/10 but demanded my money back had i had the listening experience in the cinema, like i had in my home. I am beginning to wonder if there is a cynical ploy of farming out poor quality sound action films, to mugs like us who pay for these packages.