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Three Kings

starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis
directed by: David O. Russell

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790747422
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790747421
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 11, 2000
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 10341
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999



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Product Description:
When restless american foot soldiers left out of operation desert storms high-tech warfare go on a renegade mission to loot $23 million in iraqi gold they discoer more action than they ever could want and their own humanity as well. Special features: bunkers - three hidden features and much more. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/07/2005 Starring: George Clooney Ice Cube Run time: 115 minutes Rating: R Director: David O. Russell

Amazon.com:
A confident hybrid of M*A*S*H, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Dr. Strangelove, Three Kings is one of the most seriously funny war movies ever made. Improving the premise of Kelly's Heroes with scathing intelligence, it explores the odd connection between war and consumerism in the age of Humvees and cellular phones. Writer-director David O. Russell's third film (after Spanking the Monkey and Flirting with Disaster), it's a no-holds-barred portrait of personal conscience in the volatile arena of politics, played out by one of the most gifted filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s.

George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze (director of Being John Malkovich) play a quartet of U.S. soldiers who, disillusioned by Operation Desert Storm, decide to steal $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's army. Getting the bullion out of an Iraqi stronghold is easy; keeping it is a potentially lethal proposition. By the end of their mercenary mission, the Americans can no longer ignore wartime atrocities (and neither can we--the film is boldly unflinching), and conscience demands their aid to Iraqi rebels abandoned by President George Bush's fickle wartime policy. This is serious stuff indeed, but Russell infuses Three Kings with a keen sense of the absurd, and the entire film is an exercise in breathtaking visual ingenuity. Despite a conventional ending that's mildly disappointing for such a brashly original film, Three Kings conveys the brutal madness of war while making you laugh out loud at the insanity. --Jeff Shannon



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - What kind of movie is it? I don't know.
It's not a war movie . Neither it's an action nor a comedy. There are a few funny scenes.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One of the greatest war films ever
After the end of the Gulf War, four American soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Just As Good As I Remembered
I remember how much I enjoyed this movie in the theaters and had not seen it for quite ahwile so I ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Loud shoot-em-up
Post Gulf War tale of three US soldiers who plan a heist of Kuwait gold stolen by Saddam. Quick cutting ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Three Abdications
My struggle with THREE KINGS is that I viewed it the first time in the mistaken belief that it was an updated ... Read More

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