The Kingdom (English - 2007)

A 2006 english movie based on the experiences of an FBI team in Saudi Arabia while they were investigating on a terrorist attack that hit an American base in Saudi causing heavy casuality. The american government and the fbi were not interested in sending more americans to Saudi, but the team somehow manages to get permission and reaches there. Unfortunately for them, the attitude of the local security officials and the american embassy officials in saudi were not supportive. And they were not allowed to collect evidences and carry an investigation of their own in that foriegn country. Later the fbi team leader manages to get a permission from the saudi prince and tracks down the terrorist gang and its leader. By that time, the team got into a better relationship with the local security forces and they started planning the operations together.



After tracking the location of the terrorist group, the american forces launches a commando operation which resulted in the death of some gang members who were not the top ones. and most of them were less than 18 years too. so this forced the authorities to pack up the team and while they were on their way back to the airport, the terrorist group attacked them with a car bomb. but the team manages to escape somehow from the attack, but the terrorists captures one of the team members and took him for execution (the terrorists usual way of executing infront of a video camera to broadcast it later). the next 20 minutes shows the heavy fight between the two sides.it resulted in the death of a lot of terrorists and their leader. also a local security official, who by then had become a good friend of the team was killed. later after consoling his family, the team returns to america.
The last scene of the most interesting scene, thats what i felt. It shows the resemblance in the dialogues delivered by the hero and villain in two different situations. Aat first it was the hero's consoling his colleague after the attack at The Kingdom Of Saudi. Then it was the dialogue of the terrorist leader to his granddaughter while dying. Both said "Dont worry, we will kill them".


My Rating : Good (***)