“They blew up a goddamn softball game!” sighs one character at the start of Peter Berg’s (Friday Night Lights) Saudi Arabia-set thriller. Hell, is nothing sacred to the militant fundamentalists whose suicide bomb attack on a western housing compound in Riyadh kicks off this timely tale of Middle East turmoil? Following the efforts of an FBI evidence response team to investigate the blast in edgy partnership with the local authorities, The Kingdom offers an involving portrait of unlikely allies pooling their resources against a common enemy. Or it would, had Berg not elected to finish with an incendiary third act that suggests all the conflicts of the region can be resolved by opening a can of good ol’ Yankee whup-ass.
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