Three Kings: 7.5/10
The trailers made this 1999 look like one of those "Americana 4 ever, Arabs suck!" type propaganda movies, but it was actually a lot more. The cast seemed a bit so/so, but this was actually a really good movie. Set in Iraq after the Gulf War, a band of men go looking for hidden gold in some bunkers. Naturally, it's not that easy, and so the gunfire, hostilities, civilian connection, and so on, begins. Clooney is really good as the hard-up leader of the squad, and the movie tells a story and isn't the clutter that so many of these sorts are. The ending is very good too, without giving anything away.
The trailers made this 1999 look like one of those "Americana 4 ever, Arabs suck!" type propaganda movies, but it was actually a lot more. The cast seemed a bit so/so, but this was actually a really good movie. Set in Iraq after the Gulf War, a band of men go looking for hidden gold in some bunkers. Naturally, it's not that easy, and so the gunfire, hostilities, civilian connection, and so on, begins. Clooney is really good as the hard-up leader of the squad, and the movie tells a story and isn't the clutter that so many of these sorts are. The ending is very good too, without giving anything away.