Yet another movie full of explosions, mayhem, and a script that thinks it is saying something deep. Peter Berg is a fine director but here he seemed overwhelmed by the scope of this film. The story was so muddled they must have done focus groups, then added flashbacks in case we thought all Arabs looked alike. Both Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman's characters were pure cliché with the woman FBI agent too emotional and the Jewish FBI agent too nervous / funny. Redeeming them later is not screen craft, but speaks about a script lost at sea. I know why they made this (political correctness run amok!), but what a waste of time (ours) and money (theirs). Save your 2 hours, and instead rent "Children of Men". At least there, the politics and the mayhem had a bigger point.
Review of The Kingdom
