The Kingdom

This is a film that is designed to highlight some of the realities of the oil industry particularly in Suadi Arabia. It begins by showing statistics of the worlds oil production and consumption and shows just what an alarming amount the United states uses in comparison to the rest of the world thus setting the political background to the film. It then cuts to a baseball game being played in one of the oil company controlled westernised areas of Saudi Arabia where oil workers from America live under American law and don't have to conform to the general islamic based laws. You don't learn much else about the worlds oil industry but these few pieces do help you to understand some of the American senators decision.

From this point onwards things go downhill. There is a terrorist attack on one of the compounds in which many Americans are killed. There is then a secondary attack on the rescue workers in which an FBI agent is killed. This sparks the FBI into action and they are itching to get to Saudi Arabia in order to carry out an investigation and bring the perpetrator to justice.

This film is not as bad as I expected it to be, but I have to say it is not one of the greatest ever made. Its a good watch if all you looking for is a bit of violence and some political tension but it never gets any deeper than that it doesn't really deal with any of the statistic shown at the beginning of the film and is basically an excuse for some violence. I suggest watching it is your bored and have nothing better to do otherwise don't waste your time.