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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: Great movie, excellent cinematography! Yeah it may not be the "Real Thing" but so what. The msg came across very clearly. I liked this movie because the "Bad Guys" - Iraqis weren't portrayed like a bunch of barbarians, and they also were given a slightly human element to them. Yea so the ending was typical Hollywood cheez, but hey it's a movie, not a documentary!
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Summary: Alot of Action and Eplosion just fantastic!
Review: I enjoy watching George Clooney he is just great! A lot of action in this movie. I really enjoyed the movie.
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Summary: Walk, don't run to your video store
Review: This movie got a lot of hype from some of my favorite critics so I was excited to see what it was all about. Sadly, I found this film to be overrated. Three Kings had all the chances in the world to be an intellectually stunning movie, but every time the film approached an interesting subject some sort of Hollywood-ism would work its way in and the exploration would be destroyed. Case in point, a helicopter attacking our heroes is brought down by a C-4 laced football. This comes around at a time when the movie wants us to take things seriously as oil is poured down a soldiers throat to attempt to show the true nature of the gulf war. You can't be smart and stupid at the same time. The attempt of this movie was at dark comedy, not war. This would work brilliantly but the film is stocked with so many typical Hollywood fight scenes that it becomes in your mind a bad war film rather than good comedy. The movie dragged on and explored nothing. They teased the audience by approaching the subjects of the media and oil but all the film came down to was greed. "Gold Solves Everything" could have been the title. The four soldiers find the gold early in the movie and from there it becomes barter to get them out of all of their sticky situations. Finally, after what seemed an eternity, we approach a big ending which sadly disappoints you by being so clean and simplistic. Once again our friend, the gold, makes an appearance and solves everything! The directing was bold and the acting good, but it doesn't make the movie hold on its own. The interesting camera shots grab your attention and add a lot of flare but in the end it's just all camera trickery and you are left with a sub-par experience.
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Summary: Three Kings
Review: I have to give all the major actors credit for acting well, except for the whine-bucket, that fortunately gets killed off. To me the Movie was a very disappointing film. If our military was as chaotic as this movie portrays it to be, we are lucky we won the war. Now to make people mad, maybe this is how reservist units behaved in the rear, but I saw no such stupidity on the real battle front, during or after the war. Had a good plot ruined by foolishness. I am trying to sell my copy, just to be rid of it...
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Summary: Top Notch DVD
Review: A remarkable film. You never know what's going to happen next, and that's always a pleasure. The camera work and editing are absolutely stunning. This wasn't the "scathing indictment" of US foreign policy in the Gulf War that the critics would like you to believe. Sure, the criticisms of the US policy are there (and rightly so)- but director David Russell has painted practically everyone in the same light: opportunists who are looking after their own self-interests. Those that complain that this isn't a war movie, is badly shot, lacks good action, and isn't "realistic enough" have totally missed the point. The DVD is incredible. Extras extras extras. There's a lot for you money here.
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Summary: Satirical, dark, and ultimately uplifting
Review: You don't need to look any farther than Three Kings to find a film that exemplified all that was right with movies in 1999. A brilliantly directed, very funny, and terrifically exciting war (or post-war) film, this is the kind of movie that probably would have been turned into a Sly Stallone action pic ten years ago - sans the political and satirical angle of course. But it was made in 1999, fortunately, resulting in one of the most startling and effective anti-war films ever. And it was great to see a film that treated its Arab characters as something more than either a)villains or b)huddled masses. One needs to look no further than the underground hideout scenes or the dialogue scenes between Mark Wahlberg and his Arab captor to see evidence of that. Much respect to the entire cast for the fine performances across the board, and much more respect to David O. Russell for a film that achieves what most films should aspire to.
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Summary: Style or Substance?
Review: Three Kings has bucketfulls of style. The unusual use of film stock produces an image quite unlike anything else out there and gives the film an unearthly quality. The camerawork is also stylish, lots of whip pans, crash zooms, and slow motion. It is perhaps the most modern looking films of recent years. I loved the film, but my friend was convinced that it was all style and no substance. True, the film does criticise the actions of the American government during the conflict, but in the end it seems to dissolve into Hollywood smaltz. The good guys win out, and the bad guys get punished. The film goes to great lengths to show the corruption of the American military, but then ruins it all by making the ending so clear cut. We learn that America is good and Iraq is bad. You can't help but feel a little cheated.
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Summary: Three Kings
Review: Beware: All of you hoping to see a great movie look somewhere else. The movie was drawn out and lacked a certain explosiveness. George, Mark, and I-Cube all played good roles but like everyone else I enjoy seeing a change in backgrounds. The desert can get old quickly. So don't watch this with the hope that it will get better as it goes on because it doesn't.
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Summary: Excellent film
Review: I found movie interesting to say the least. After growing up watching shows like the A team and Dukes of Hazzard, I feel that i have seen just about everything that they can do with movies now with out doing just straight out anime. This movie was refeshing in the fact that it kinda puts a different twist on the whole volence thing. I doesnt glorify it really, it lets you see what the people around the action are thinking. One of the major vehicles for you to be able to see this is the way the director, David O Russell uses different angle and lighting effects and slow motion segments of the films. In a weird way parts of the movie are almost like <i>Natural Born Killers</i> by Oliver stone.
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Summary: TRUELY THREE KINGS
Review: I had seen the film in the cinema, and was not disappointed to see it yet again on DVD. George Clooney, was his usual moody self, which worked perfectly in this film. The whole look of the film was amazing, the draining out of the colour of the film created such an amazing effect. It took me ages to be able to wade through the special/extra bit. It is well worth it cause I have not laughed so much for a long time when I discover an acting less with Ice Cube. Watch it and you'll love it.
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