is a simple story: On a baseball field in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a quiet game between families of U.S. soldiers is interrupted by the sound of several shots. All this occurs within the confines of the military base ... yes, despite surveillance.
After the panic is between the present, an Arab official who is pretending to be call "good", attracts yes to the frightened Americans, to lead to a "safe." As is surrounded by a number of people, recites some things in Arabic and commits suicide by detonating a bomb.
few hours later, as it brought together a number of members of the Red Cross, FBI detectives present in Riyadh, and other more innocent, a third bomb explodes killing more people.
The news obviously comes to the United States, where a squad of the FBI, hurt most by the loss of close friends that the persistence of international terrorism, decides to break all prohibitions possible to fly to Riyadh to "save" your honor (no, the humanity no).
Already in Riyadh, the team of detectives spent days investigating the crime scene, and being exposed to unexpected hazards in an attempt to clarify and assign responsibilities. The closer they get to the truth of the facts, are exposed to more risks and are confronted with a network of guerrillas who will stop to capture them to use as hostages.
That is, in many words, the plot of "The Kingdom", directed by Peter Berg (director of "Very Bad Things") and produced among others, Michael Mann (director of "Collateral" and "Miami Vice "among others). The combination Berg & Mann will definitely bring good things to film not only because the action scenes are top quality, but it also manages to infect Berg of that anguish that the individual and wrapped him in "Very Bad Things" (and if you have not seen, what are you waiting for?). But the best part of this story is not that ... Maybe it's the realism of the final.
bet 50 pesos to the end and imagined: the group of detectives from the FBI managed to "save" the region of Riyadh, unharmed, and return home with a smile on his face, having elucidated the crime.
No, the ending is even better than that. The squad of detectives managed to "save" one of his friends from the clutches of the rebels, though. However, they find their destruction to stop and check the welfare of an Arab family in which the teenager prepares an ambush for them ... After a shootout in a department sergeant kills Arab ally of the FBI, the rebellious teenager and his grandfather, the Americans left the building quite hurt physically, but emotionally wounded. Return home, not as heroes but as survivors of something that has gone out of control. And the last scene, and perhaps the best (the best because it shows us an unreal American landscape of "hope", but a realistic scenario of mutual hatred and xenophobia), introduces us to an Arab child sitting still in the legs Grandfather killed, recalling what he whispered before he died: "Do not worry son, we'll kill them all."
Ultimately, one of the few war movies that present a realistic picture of the current world situation. Highly recommended.
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