Wednesday, October 24, 2007

The Kingdom

Last Friday we saw 'The Kingdom' at the cinema.

The Movie is about an FBI-Team that wants to investigate in an terror attack on a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The diplomats work slowly debating about consequences of an FBI operation until Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assemble an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip to Riyadh to locate the man behind the bombing.
When they arrive they have to overcome a lot of problems and have to fear for their lives.

Suspense-packed and thrilling to the final scene.

First I was worried, that it would possibly be too 'American' - meaning that that FBI-Team are the good ones and all the Saudis are the bad and not trustworthy ones. That's something that often happens when a country makes a movie about problems in another country in which they are involved themselves.
But I would say they did a great job.

You see the terror the fanatic fundamentalists spread among people and you also can see that not everyone with darker skin is a terrorist. The movie even shows that friendship is possible.
I hope that all the stupid freaks out there who think that some people who belong to a certain ethnicity are automatically bad, will have their eyes opened and stop heating up the fire with attacks (verbal and/or physical) on innocent ones.
And I hope that the masterminds of the terror cells will someday stop to harm people for mistakes that have happend generations before the people now killed were born.

There must be some way for coexistence!

Website: The Kingdom

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