movie: The Kingdom...wow

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Slight spoiler warning here. I watched The Kingdom last night on HBO. I have not had a movie hold my attention like that...since probably the Matrix; and talk about gun play!! The end sceneS are extremely intense. One scene had Jamie Foxx throwing a grenade across an alley, from a roof top, into a window like a baseball...I don't think I've ever seen that in a movie...at least not from the angle that they shot it, neat. How loud guns are came into effect a couple times too, a guard fired off a few shots from his turret mounted .50 cal as warning shots with Jenifer Garner standing right next to it...she was on the ground cussing at the guy complaining about her ear drums.

I'm no expert on tactical, urban building entry, but there is a lot of that too; some from Saudi guards, more from the feds that were over there.

Also, if someone could I.D. the guns that were used; especially the rifle that Jamie Foxx picked up when their suburban got flipped.

The only part I didn't like was the philosophical tort at the very end; that I'm sure was designed to get us to think about the "evils" of war in a unilateral fashion. Other than that, I give this movie a big thumbs up :)
 
I've got the DVD, and there's is a really cool special feature that allows you to watch the end room clearing action scene from each character's POV. It's without music and without the polished and edited camera look of the final move, so it seems like you're really there. The best part is, it goes through the ENTIRE sequence as one shot, so it's not like Jamie Foxx and the Saudi bust into a room shoot a few rounds, and the director Cuts and they set up the next scene. They follow each character from the time they get out of the vehicles to the end of the knife fight, start to finish, no cuts. So there's a ton of sweet room clearing and tactical movement footage that they didn't even put in the movie, but filmed anyways. It really surprised me how much work they put into filming all of that action knowing only a handful of it was going to make it into the movie. And from what I learned of room clearing at Basic and MP AIT(not loads, but some), it's actually fairly accurate in terms of tactics and technique.
 
Fantastic action scenes and I was loving the movie right up to the last 30 seconds when the BS moral equivalence ruined it for my wife and I. I'd watch it again but turn it off once the final scene starts.
 
I first watched this while in the army, we liked it, then we watched home of the brave with Samuel Jackson and 50 cent we had fun tearing that terrible movie apart you would think with "military advisors" and costume people lurking around the set that they might be able to at least figure out how to wear a beret properly
 
I loved the movie and caught the end again on HBO the other night too. I agree that the philosophy was totally lame at the end and kinda ruined it. There is no parallel between people who would never kill anyone unless attacked (like FBI, soldiers etc...) and those who kill 1st and kill civilians to boot. Hollywood has to ruin everything by putting their candya$$ message in there, yet make violent movies with themes of good guys fighting terrorists because they know it sells. Hypocrites. They should make hippie peace movies full of that drivel and see how well it does at the box office...or ****.

Whew...I needed to vent. I wouldn't have been as upset at that if the rest of the movie wasn't so good!
 
I liked it

It was a good movie. I liked that it didn't play up the violence (although there was a health dose) but had a good plot story line.
 
Also, if someone could I.D. the guns that were used; especially the rifle that Jamie Foxx picked up when their suburban got flipped.
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G3

Later on he used an AMD 65 in the building assualt

During that building assualt the g3 was given to the FBI dude outside, the one that shot out the tires on that passing car. Jennifer Garner looked like she was using an H&K PDW (MP5 varient). The pistol that was used to shoot at the end was a tokarev, I believe. Obviously the Saudi cop during the building assualt was using a CAR-15... The shotgun I believe was a mossberg, but who can tell?

I was a huge fan of Alias, this was a little like the return of Sydney Bristow... So I enjoyed it immensly.
 
How can you tell it's a G3 and not an FAL? They look really similiar, so what am I missing?
 
How can you tell it's a G3 and not an FAL? They look really similiar, so what am I missing?
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Atla:

This will help, it has pictures from the movie and the actual weapons.


http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=The_Kingdom




Fantastic action scenes and I was loving the movie right up to the last 30 seconds when the BS moral equivalence ruined it for my wife and I. I'd watch it again but turn it off once the final scene starts.
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I thought the last 30 seconds was awesome.

It just goes to show that everyone thinks their right.

And it's true. Don't you think were right? Just like they think their right.


Doesn't mean their right and that we don't need to kill them. But it shows the perspective of both sides. Something few movies do.
 
I liked the scene with Garner fighting the guy in the room with the FBI guy hostage. Good flick.
 
I don't think the end scene was a candy*** message from hollywood. To me it was saying that there will be no end to the war on terror until one side is eliminated.
 
I watched that the other night in HD, for about the 5th time. I agree that was a movie that had to be one of the best of the year it was made. Check out the HBO series Generation Kill, also great, two of the advisors were so good that they put them in the series. Those were supposed to be the most badass Marines in the conflict. But "The Kingdom", gave me that chill, several times.
 
I watched that as well. Good movie, i think they really shed some good light on how different things are over there.

Generation Kill, which is now on HBO, is also good. But HBO has thrown in some liberal spin-offs as usual.
 
The feel of realism is what I felt made the movie, the director did a masterful job of imparting that feeling.
 
Peter Berg's directing style emphasizes realism, just like Michael Mann---which isn't all that surprising as Mann has produced several of Berg's films, including The Kingdom.
That's awesome as far as I'm concerned, as Mann is just about my favorite director ever. Having a Mini-Mann around making films is a bonus.



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