Rating: ****/****

Peter Berg’s The Kingdom begins with a cleverly animated title sequence that outlines a brief history of Saudi Arabia, oil, and the United States’ involvement with each. By the time Osama bin Laden enters the picture and you see a plane flying toward the Twin Towers, you realize you’re in for something a little more real than your typical action movie, and the rest of the film delivers on that promise.

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