Three Kings (1999)
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col/Super 35
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Synopsis:
1991: the Gulf War is technically over and Marines find themselves cleaning up and fending off journalists in need of fresh material. Then three of them take a map off an Iraqi prisoner and set off, together with a disillusioned Major of Special Ops, in search of stolen Kuwaiti gold.
Review:
It sounds like, and was marketed as, a kind of Kelly's Heroes but is in fact much more intelligent than that. Taking into its ambit the plight of the Shi'ite insurgents, their betrayal by Bush and the Alliance, and the opportunism of the Iraqi and American soldiers, it permits itself a few laughs before embarking on a literal, at times surreally so, appraisal of war's essential objective, to tear and to maim.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col/Super 35
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Synopsis:
1991: the Gulf War is technically over and Marines find themselves cleaning up and fending off journalists in need of fresh material. Then three of them take a map off an Iraqi prisoner and set off, together with a disillusioned Major of Special Ops, in search of stolen Kuwaiti gold.
Review:
It sounds like, and was marketed as, a kind of Kelly's Heroes but is in fact much more intelligent than that. Taking into its ambit the plight of the Shi'ite insurgents, their betrayal by Bush and the Alliance, and the opportunism of the Iraqi and American soldiers, it permits itself a few laughs before embarking on a literal, at times surreally so, appraisal of war's essential objective, to tear and to maim.
Country: US/AUS
Technical: col/Super 35
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
Synopsis:
1991: the Gulf War is technically over and Marines find themselves cleaning up and fending off journalists in need of fresh material. Then three of them take a map off an Iraqi prisoner and set off, together with a disillusioned Major of Special Ops, in search of stolen Kuwaiti gold.
Review:
It sounds like, and was marketed as, a kind of Kelly's Heroes but is in fact much more intelligent than that. Taking into its ambit the plight of the Shi'ite insurgents, their betrayal by Bush and the Alliance, and the opportunism of the Iraqi and American soldiers, it permits itself a few laughs before embarking on a literal, at times surreally so, appraisal of war's essential objective, to tear and to maim.