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A damning yet idealistic satire about the motives behind U.S. foreign policy.
No, Three Kings is not a great picture, but it is a very good one, perhaps the first feature of merit to come out of the Gulf War.
Three Kings takes a comfortable proletarian view of Desert Storm.
Russell's edgy pacing here and the assorted styles he's adopted create an exciting, restless immediacy.
Ultimately, instead of drawing us in, his swagger and the dazzle of his pyrotechnics keep us at a remove from the savagery. They become abstractions, too.
The first Hollywood feature to take on the 1991 Gulf War, Three Kings does so in an impudently comic, stylistically aggressive and, finally, very thoughtful manner.
One of Hollywood's few films about the Gulf War, David O. Russell's Three Kings is an original war feature that's effective as a social satire as well as political critique.
Violent, liberal George Clooney Gulf War caper.
A hallucinatory near-masterpiece and one of the best American war films produced in the 1990s.
Ithis is a career making movie, then its writer/director David O. Russell who deserves the credit with this very creative effort from the debut filmmaker.
Three Kings mightn't be the best thought-out or most reassuring movie of the year, but the more I think about it, the more I'm sure that it is one of the best.
It's amazing how much action can be crammed into a movie about a war where most soldiers didn't actually see any action. Three Kings has its fair share of shootouts, none that are merely squeezed in for guilty pleasures. Every shot fired is motivated by c
Far more intelligent and perceptive than most actioners, yet with enough thrills and spills to satisfy adrenaline junkies.
(The) screenplay abruptly changes tone after the first half-hour, eventually incorporating some genuinely harrowing sequences... The final picture becomes something noticeably deeper and smarter than its first reels suggest.
With characters you can root for and a story that is both engaging and honest, Three Kings goes for the gold and comes out a winner.
Keilich strikes a sweetly engaging balance between humor and pathos.
The last reel descends into a muddle of trade-offs, heroic about-turns and romanticised rebels, but this is defiant, provocative cinema; Russell may yet prove a film-maker to treasure.
An action movie with a conscience.
Go see it for the effects, action and treasure hunt story, but enjoy the intelligence, too.
It's an outrageous comedy and a challenging morality play, while at heart its a classic Western (set in an unlikely context).
Combinando humor e drama com talento, funciona como uma dura crítica à política belicista dos EUA - sendo tão (ou mais) relevante hoje em dia do que quando foi lançado.
The violence and profanity are there, but so is a sharp-edged political point of view, interesting characters and a plot enhanced with dark humor.
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