Rating: 
Summary: Saving Private Ryan has been knocked off the top spot !
Review: This is the best war movie that i have ever seen. It has everything you could want from a war movie, great action, superb comedy, and a serious approach to war. The performances from everyone in this movie are amazing and the way it is shot is wierd but also unique. This is a superb movie.
Rating:
Summary: O'Russell Raises the Stakes
Review: I am pleased to see that the level of discourse is slightly higher amongst the reviews for this film than many others. That is what 3 kings deserves. I would not rate it as a perfect film but I am easily giving it five stars in comparison to other films of the decade.A perfect war movie for our current period of time, Three Kings delves headlong into the alienation and circus of modern war. Reserve troops who are in the military for the extra bucks, media types going to battle to get the scoop, the artificial "one world" propaganda that stirred us into conflict - it's all there. This is one of the smartest films since Network.
Rating:
Summary: This IS the best war movie.
Review: A great war movies doesn't just have action. It has to have moral questions and right and wrong or it won't be realistic. This is a great film with many different elements involved. This is the kind of movie you buy because it really is special.
Rating: 
Summary: A refreshingly good war film.
Review: First and foremost, I was entertained, but looking deeper into the movie, I find more and more I like about it the more I think about it. It's a war movie with a sense of shame about war, which I think all good anti-war (or at least anti-violence) movies need to have. The heroes are flawed, and that to me makes them much more believable and acceptable. And it also makes me want to listen more to what the film has to say about war. One of the big problems I had with 'Saving Private Ryan' was that Spielberg's heroes were unconditionally good. He was obviously trying to make an anti-war/pacifists' movie (just look at the first half hour), but as the movie progresses, it decends into shameless, flag-waving propeganda. Spielberg would have us believe that even though war is evil, the men fighting it are good. It's a contradiction in terms. I didn't believe these "angels in earth" or anything they had to say about war because of all this. Now back to 3 Kings... The heroes of this war are completely believable to me. They are virtuous, loving family men, yet they're also greedy and exploitative. If they ever pretend to like what they're doing in Kuwait (like Wahlberg in the torture scene), then they (and we) are reminded of the folly of international trade, of power struggle, of oil monopoly, and of the arrogance of the United States. But even in the midst of all this corruption and fighting, they manage to be heroes by saving some innocent people's lives, as if to say, "We may not be perfect, but that's no reason why we can't do some good while we're here." They admit their faults and rise above them, rather than pretending to be perfect. They become war heroes without condoning war, and to me, that's a successful war film.
Rating: 
Summary: Great ideas, poor execution
Review: There is much that is both right and wrong with this film. It's extremely funny, well acted, and has some very intelligent things to say about war and its effects on people on both sides-- during the first half of the movie. But midway through it loses track of what it wanted to be, or maybe didn't ever know at all. What starts as a condemnation of gung-ho Rambo warhawk mentality then turns into exactly that: a gung-ho Rambo action movie with people outrunning bullets and explosions and knocking down choppers with explosive-laced footballs. But you're not supposed to notice this is happening because the characters are doing it for "good" reasons, and are supposed to laugh as the "bad guys" die by the dozens. The intelligence and wit and irony built up at the start all goes up in a big explosion, and then gets wrapped up in an all too convenient, simple conclusion-- a tragic waste of an inherently complex, interesting premise.
Rating: 
Summary: GOOD FOR WHAT IT IS
Review: For a movie that's supposed to NOT be trivializing war, that's exactly what it does. It's very glib, and lacks anything like an emotional punch. For that you need to see "The Thin Red Line" or "Full Metal Jacket." Even "Apocolypse Now" has been where this has been, and decades earlier. That's not to say the movie isn't funny and on occassion visually stylistic, but that makes it very good, not great. In this age of Music Video influenced directors, maybe that's the best we can hope for.
Rating:
Summary: One of best films of 1999
Review: This is truley a wonderful film. I am somewhat dissapointed although because of the nomintaions of the academy awards. They just seemed to ignore this film. I would atleast think that it should have been nominated for best original screenplay, best director, and of course, who could forget about the amazing cinimaphotography! This film deserves so much and people just seem to scoot this one out.
Rating:
Summary: Actually Four-and-a Half Stars, But It Rounds Up
Review: A very innovative look at war and its effects on people. While most war movies embrace violence and blatant anti-war propaganda, this one stands alone in the way that it places insanity and humour over all the rest. The comedy, by the way, is very nice. Watching it, I not only enjoyed the jokes and quick-cuts but, in the back of my head, felt myself being briskly subdued by the movie's insanity. There is so much originality in the action that the very nice cinematography is not thought about until afterwards. Looking back, the shots of our dust-faced heroes against the stark blue sky is surreal and amazingly picturesque for an action/comedy/war movie.
Rating:
Summary: Surprisingly Brilliant
Review: This was one of the most surprising films I have seen in a LONG time. I truly expected to see a basic action/ black comedy film for a little light Sunday night viewing. 3kings was all that and more. I thought it was directed superbly with some of the most creative and unusual visual and directing effects you will ever see. The return to the village and the shooting scene in particular were fantastic. The film touched on some of the moral issues of the war and asks alot of very profound questions about NATO involvement. It is one of the few movies I have seen which doesn't seem to have a slow bit in it. 3 Kings will make you will laugh, cringe, think, hold your breath and entertain you and lets face it ...thats why we watch movies isn't it ? Essential viweing.
Rating:
Summary: This is the best War Movie.
Review: Such a great film and the American public didn't go to see it, big surprise. This DVD looks to be excellent. This is the same director who did the hilarious Flirting with Disaster and he knows how to tell a story. I wish I was in trainging with these guys, all of them.
| 
