Kingdom of the Idiots

Advantages: Plenty of bang for your buck.
Disadvantages: It's appalling portrayal of Arabs.

...After an American enclave in Saudi Arabia is bombed in a terrorist attack, Special Agent Ronald Fleury negotiates a secret trip to Riyadh to find those responsible. He is accompanied by a team of experts including forensics examiner Janet Mayes, explosives expert Grant Sykes and intelligence analyst Adam Leavitt. But once in the desert kingdom, Fleury and his team encounter cultural and political opposition to their presence. As they unlock the secrets of the bomb site they uncover evidence of an extremist cell determined to cause further destruction. Actor-turned-director Peter Berg takes what could be a potentially insightful movie on American foreign policy and turns it into a brainless, balls-to-the-wall action fest. It is a celebration of gung-ho US ?might is right? propaganda aimed squarely at Republican whipping boys; The Middle...

afy9mab 05.11.2009 · Read review
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The Year of Fear

Advantages: Its over
Disadvantages: It began

...' is making money out of the trading. In the UK the NHS played fair and their carbon usage incurred a £6 million tariff for going over their cap they agreed to. Meanwhile a French *energy* company made *one billion* in *profit* from the same carbon trading! The trick is to get the Kyoto people who hand out your permit quotas to give you too many credits so an incorrect cap. If you know you make, say 500 million tons of pollution a year, ask for 750 million tons in credits. If they give you them you then sell the surplus 250 million tons credit at your leisure to less savvy companies who have gone over their pollution tariffs, companies that are playing fair and trying to clean up and reduce their pollution, some say the point of the exercise. The big guys are making billions this way and still messing up the planet in the process. It...

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Kingdom of Heaven

Advantages: Brilliantly shot with lavish sets and costumes and exciting action sequences
Disadvantages: Feels a little disjointed, Orlando Bloom doesnt quite work as the lead

...Often tagged 'Gladiator 2', Kingdom of Heaven is Ridley Scott's take on The Crusades during the 12th century, and fans of Gladiator should know what to expect; Elaborate sets and constumes; dynamic shots of armoured men in frenzied battle; a fearless yet tormented hero rising from the bottom to change the course of history. Balian (Orlando Bloom) a bereaved blacksmith, is approached by his previously unknown father, a crusading Lord named Sir Godfrey (Liam Neeson), and joins his father to fight the crusades, but his father and his men are ambused and killed en route and Balion ends up taking up his fathers office in Jerusalem, a Crusader stronghold in the Holy Land. There he becomes embroiled in a political struggle between rivalling orders of Christian knights, and after the tensions spill out into war and defeat at the hands of Saladin...

Burning_Darkness 12.06.2009 · Read review
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What a year!

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...I would just like to write a review on my past year during 2009, although I must have to apologise now in case this is a repetition of many reviews that I have done so far. As some of you may now through various, this past year has not been an easy one for me ? so if you have seen any of this somewhere else in one of my reviews, then I apologise now yet again! Personal life Back in March, I came out as being gay to my family. This was hard for all involved, as I come from a Christian family and so as I am sure you will understand this was something that caused a great deal of heartache. But it was accepted in time, and now things are gradually getting back to how they were in some ways before this happened. Of course, it was hard for my mum as she felt that she wouldn't get a daughter in law or grandchildren out of it. But as I...

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The best year

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...I think it's very difficult to put into words how I feel about the year just gone by. There are various questionnaires around the internet at the moment with questions about the past year but I think that to try to condence it all down into a few questions wouldn't be sufficient enough. I will, therefore, try to review the last 12 months as best I can with a few headings about both myself and the world around us. My life My life this year has been vastly different to the years gone by. 2008 left me a very different person. I not only got married in 2008 but then I went around the world with my job and then I became pregnant and very ill. I spent the last 6 months of 2008 in bed either at home or hospital and had to go on long term sick from my job. Every day that went by felt like year as I was too ill to do a thing...

lorriellah 31.12.2009 · Read review
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Kingdom of Purgatory

Advantages: Good cinematography and set design
Disadvantages: Orlando Bloom, One-dimensional characters, Frequently tedious

...Kingdom of Heaven (2005) - FILM ONLY REVIEW Certificate: 15 (UK), R (USA), 15A (Ireland) Running time: 145 minutes (there is also a director's cut at 194 minutes) Writer: William Monahan Director: Ridley Scott Main cast: Balian - Orlando Bloom Godfrey - Liam Neeson Guy de Lusignan - Marton Csokas Nasir - Alexander Siddig Sibylla - Eva Green Tiberias - Jeremy Irons King Baldwin - Edward Norton Saladin - Ghassan Massoud "Kingdom of Heaven" is the latest historical epic from Ridley Scott, he of "Gladiator" fame (as the DVD packaging and posters like to remind us). I liked "Gladiator" for all its faults - and I would probably liked it a good deal more if I had known that "Alexander", "Troy" and "King Arthur" were in my future - and I was hopeful of something equally absorbing in this offering. It initially looked...

Collingwood21 04.12.2007 · Read review
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The Kingdom - Jack Bauer Could Have Sorted This One Out In 24 HRS

Advantages: Very good action scenes
Disadvantages: Would have like more characterisation

...The Kingdom (2007) I have had this film sat on my shelf now for a while and had not got around to watching it. As the pickings on the tv were a bit slim, I decided to give it a go. Basic Plot The story is centred around a terrible terrorist attack that takes place at the beginning of the film, in an American compound which is located in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - (hence the title). With the presence of American investigators being likely to further inflame an already volatile situation, America is told not to send any personnel; that Saudi Arabian police are quite capable of finding the people behind the attack. Not happy with this response, FBI agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) blackmails an official representing Saudi Arabia in America and gains permission to have five days on Saudi soil to be satisfied that a proper...

LAURALILIA 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Eurovision - UK flops again

Advantages: a good laugh at Terry Wogan's commentary
Disadvantages: awful music

...Ah eurovision again, a chance for Europe to come together in a celebration of the diverse music of the continent - yeah right. More like the annual political love in. Let's face it the UK does not take the contest seriously and most of us only watch it for Terry Wogan's commentary on it to see how many insults he can do. Can he break the 20 IPE (insults per entry) this year? The UK has had a run of very poor results but then again we have had a run of very poor entries as well. Last years well the less said the better, 2006 - a rap what were we thinking? Not to mention the utter disaster of 2003 with 'Jemini' and the big fat zero. I won't go on, it get too depressing, (or embarrassing that I can remember it all.) Whilst our entry is better than last year's - well let's face it it could hardly be worse I don't think it...

mjc121 24.05.2008 (25.05.2008) · Read review
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My kingdom

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...****MySims: Kingdom (DS)**** I really liked mysims when it came out so when this was published i had to buy it!!! The main task in the game is to help king Roland (well the major Ellen ) fix the kingdom as some mysterious person is making things disappear and it is no longer the fab town that it once was. You have to help the other sims and as you do they give you things to help you find out who is destroying the place and as the game progresses more areas and tasks open up. Mini games There are quite a lot of these in this game and they include playing tennis,fishing,selling fruit and catching ghosts.When you play them it starts off easy and as you complete the levels it gets harder.A lot of these test your reaction time which i think is good as you want to play again to beat your previous score. One of the mini tasks is...

katie22008m 01.02.2009 · Read review
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Kingdom of Heaven- or Hell?

Advantages: Convincing performances, great battle scenes
Disadvantages: A Bit Long

...Kingdom of Heaven is the latest epic from Director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien) and stars Orlando Bloom. There are also appearances from a number of established actors such as Liam Neeson and Jeremy Irons. Kingdom of Heaven is based between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades, where Jerusalem is currently held by the Christians. There is currently a kind of peace (in that there is not an open war) in Jerusalem and Christians, Moslems and Jews all co-exist fairly well. This is the time just before King Richard (the Lionheart) set of on his Crusade. THE STORY: Set in 1186, the story centres around Balian (Bloom), a young French blacksmith mourning the recent death of his wife who committed suicide after their baby died. As a result of this the local priest cheerfully assures Balian that his wife will be at that very moment burning in...

karenes 09.05.2005 · Read review
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