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Spoiler Points for The Kingdom (2007) [R] 110 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $13.00
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Plot Spoilers
The Keys to the Identity of the Terrorists:The trip to the apartment tower with optical view of the compound indicates the bombers had to be Saudis as any foreigners would have been met with suspicion and the government would have been informed.Agent Sykes (Chris Cooper) finds parts of a gurney in the blast hole, so he knows the bomb was hidden in an ambulance. Agent Sykes finds an unexploded oxygen tank with a hospital id code on it. Colonel Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom) and his men discover that the brother of a hospital worker was one of the two involved in the first wave of the attack (the police car shooting). So they are able to trace back to the home of the brothers where they assault and kill everyone there.
The Final Act:
After the assault, Agent Fluery (Jamie Foxx) and his team suspect that these kids were not the masterminds. They want to find the mastermind, but the governments want them home. The governments, however, do not get their wish. On the way to the military base airport, their caravan runs head on into a Mercedes Benz loaded with explosives. Eventually, three of four SUVs is over-turned. The fourth, the one at the rear is full of the men of Abu Hamza (the suspected ring leader of the organization). They swarm the vehicles and manage to extract Special Agent Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman). With him in hand, they rush back to their get away car as a Mercedes full of their comrades takes pot shots at anyone they perceive to be hindering the get away. Fleury frees himself from the SUV and shoots back hitting several in the car and sending it on a course back to HQ. Fleury gathers the rest of his team and they head out in hot pursuit of the Merceds hoping it will lead them to the SUV with agent Leavitt. As they pursue, however, they are heading right into the worst possible neighborhood, and soon find themselves under shoulder-fired rocket attack, sniper fire, and grenade explosions. They escape again and again from near misses until they get into the building they believe is holding Agent Leavitt.
Leavitt has been bound and gagged with the intention of slitting his throat on video for all to see. He escapes his first date with destiny when he kicks the legs out from under the camera's tripod. As Fleury, Al Ghazi, and Agent Mayes (Jennifer Garner) search the building and kill a lot of people in their way, Mayes comes across a room with a mother and small daughter. She tells them not to be worried and closes the door. Moments later she finds a hole in the floor leading down to the room where they are holding Leavitt. She kills the attackers by gunfire as she leaps down. The confusion ends with all the attackers killed and Leavitt free.
As Fluery and Al Ghazi are reunited with Leavitt and Mayes, they come back upon that same room with the little girl. They enter it and the little girl runs to her mother. She offers the girl a lollipop, and the little girl offers her back a blue marble. The marble is distinctive in that it's the same kind as the ones of which she found shards in the dead bodies at the bomb site. Al Ghazi asks to see the hands of the old grandfather who's been trying to stay inconspicuous across the room. When he notices some fingers are missing, he realizes the guy must be Abu Hamza. As he prepares to arrest Hamza, Hamza's grandson shoots him in the head. He falls to the floor. The kid will not put down his weapon, so they have to shoot him too. As Abu Hamza dies, he whispers something in his grandchild's ear. Al Ghazi dies in Fleury's arms. Later, Fluery pays respect to Al Ghazi's home and tells Al Ghazi's home with Sergeant Haytham (Ali Suliman). Haytham translates to Al Ghazi's son Fleury's words explaining that Al Ghazi was a very brave man.
The Final lines:Agent Leavitt begs Fleury to tell him what he whispered into Agent Mayes's ear the morning of their briefing in which he announced that his close friend, Agent Francis Manner (Kyle Chandler) was killed. Finally, Fleury tells him, "We're going to kill them all." At the same time, the film diverts back to Saudi Arabia with a mother asking her what grandfather has whispered, "Don't worry, my child, we will kill them all.
Sadly, this exchange of dialogue and message may be the most important but barely noticed part of the film for it shows the terrible power of rage and vengeful killing.
Filming Location
The film was not shot in Saudi Arabia. Rather most of it was filmed in Arizona.
Is the film factually based?
No, the film is not factually based. Director Peter Berg got the idea after the US Military barracks were blown up on Saudi Arabia ten years ago, but the events in this film never happened.
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