I watched The Kingdom on HBO the other night.  It was a very good movie and Jamie Fox did a great job in the movie as did the other actors as well.

The movie featured a fictional terrorist strike against Americans in Saudi Arabia post 9/11.  The kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the movie is even more charged dynamically in the movie than it is today, but not by much more.

The FBI is not welcome in the investigation as politically The Kingdom does not want Americans on the ground outside select areas in Saudi Arabia.  As the team arrives in Saudi Arabia their firearms, badges and passport are taken by local military police.

It is under extremely limited circumstances that a farce of an investigation takes place and only gets real when the same terrorists attempt to kidnap and kill an FBI agent just as the FBI is finally on its way to the airport to leave the country.  This kicks off a peculiarly unrealistic fire fight in the streets of a major city where the good guys are able to shoot all the bad guys despite being pinned down in something very similar to an ambush.

The terrorists apparently can carry off a precision bombing exercise, but can’t shoot straight into opposing fire.

Tags: Action, Mystery, Suspense

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