Operation: Kingdom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Operation: Kingdom |
| Original title | The Kingdom |
| Country of production | USA , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Berg |
| script | Matthew Michael Carnahan |
| production | Peter Berg, Michael Mann , Scott Stuber |
| music | Danny Elfman |
| camera | Mauro Fiore |
| cut |
Colby Parker Junior , Kevin Stitt |
| occupation | |
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Operation: Kingdom ( The Kingdom ) is an American thriller from 2007 . Directed by Peter Berg , the screenplay was written by Matthew Michael Carnahan .
action
The opening credits of the film show the history of the US-American relationship with Saudi Arabia from the founding of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932 to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 using selected events.
A terrorist attack is carried out during a softball game in a closed residential area for American workers in Riyadh . The FBI wants to investigate the case, but is being held back by diplomats , fearing that sending investigators could affect relations with Saudi Arabia. The FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmailed the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington and managed to get him to fly to Saudi Arabia with the three special agents Janet Mayes, Adam Leavitt and Grant Sykes. He has a personal interest in finding the people behind the attack, as a colleague and friend was killed in the process.
In Arabia, the team is confronted with a culture that is alien to the agents. It receives support from the Saudi Arabian police officer Colonel Al-Ghazi, who is put to their side. While the investigation is initially made more difficult by the Saudi Arabian authorities, Fleury can get a prince to investigate freely. After one of the Americans is kidnapped in an ambush, they find the mastermind behind the attacks, who is killed in this operation. Al-Ghazi, who was shot in the back of the head by the wire-puller's grandson with a pistol , was also killed.
The absurdity of terrorism and its fight against it becomes clear at the end of the film when the viewer learns that both the terrorists and the FBI investigators have promised each other: "Don't worry, we will kill them all!"
background
The film was shot in Abu Dhabi , Arizona and Washington, DC . Its production amounted to an estimated 80 million US dollars . The world premiere was on August 22, 2007 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . The widespread release began on September 28, 2007 in cinemas in the USA and on October 11, 2007 in Germany and Austria. The film grossed approximately $ 86.6 million in cinemas worldwide, including approximately $ 47.5 million in the United States.
Reviews
Richard Farber wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on September 12, 2007 that the film appeared to be a political film like Powerless and In the Valley of Elah . However, it is nothing more than an action film with an exotic background that could be more exciting. The film could achieve good box office earnings on the opening weekend with stars Chris Cooper, Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner, but its long-term chances are questionable.
Carsten Baumgardt judged on film launches that Operation Kingdom was “a film made with excellent craftsmanship, which makes use of Hollywood's mechanisms at a high level and serves a genre audience purposefully”.
The lexicon of international films judges: "The film, which was initially developed quietly, focuses on the work of the investigators and the complicated mood on site, but then does not trust its own peace and in the last third seeks its salvation with the effects of conventional action films."
John Anderson wrote in Variety magazine on September 12, 2007 that the film was a realistic thriller that delivered the politically provocative statement that terrorism should be treated as a crime. He was "jolly patriotic" and designed as a star vehicle for Jamie Foxx.
Sharif Nashashibi wrote in his review, One good Arab in The Guardian , that the film was in a long line of anti-Arab Western films. A good Arab was taken as a fig leaf for the fact that all the other Arabs in the film were utterly evil. They are all hateful, anti-Western, brutal, fanatical terrorists. The Americans, on the other hand, are portrayed as capable of mourning, passionate and noble patriots. Nashabibi also criticized Jamie Foxx 's anti-Arab comments in the press despite being treated like royalty in the United Arab Emirates.
Awards
The stunt people were nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2008.
Web links
- The Kingdom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Kingdom at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Operation: Kingdom at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Operation: Kingdom . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 987 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Operation: Kingdom . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Filming locations according to the Internet Movie Database , accessed September 19, 2007
- ↑ Budget according to the Internet Movie Database , accessed September 19, 2007
- ↑ Premiere dates from Internet Movie Database , accessed September 19, 2007
- ↑ boxofficemojo.com , accessed June 16, 2008
- ^ "The Kingdom - Bottom Line: CSI: Saudi Arabia, with big-screen production values and small-screen dramaturgy." , The Hollywood Reporter , Stephen Farber, September 12, 2007
- ↑ Operation: Kingdom> Film Starts Review
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ "New US Release - The Kingdom" ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Variety , John Anderson, September 11, 2007
- ^ One good Arab. The Guardian, accessed October 29, 2007 .
