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Three Kings (1999) Rank 5 Reviews
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Reel.com
On paper, the idea of George Clooney, "Marky" Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube in an action adventure about Operation Desert Storm sounds fairly straightforward. Attach a hack like Michael Bay to the project, throw in a gazillion explosions, work the Burger ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Reel.com
Scott's Movie Reviews (Scott Mantz)
I love Hollywood, especially this time of year! By now you're probably tanned, rested, and ready for the upcoming holiday season, and the kids are back in school. After a record-breaking summer box office filled with ghosts, Jedis, and Julia Roberts, ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Scott's Movie Reviews (Scott Mantz)
James Brundage
Three Kings IS the Apocalypse Now of the 1990's.
Hands down the finest war movie I have seen since Saving Private Ryan, Three Kings is a disturbing masterpiece. While taking a look at the soldier's who have never seen action, who have never taken ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at James Brundage
New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
An original and brilliant combination of comedy, action and sophisticated political comment. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Light Views (John Larsen)
This unusual blend of comedy and carnage constantly catches you by surprise, creating a visceral experience that is hard to beat. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Light Views (John Larsen)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
In one of the most poignant scenes I have ever witnessed, Barlow is about to be tortured by Captain Said, played beautifully by Said Taghmaoui. In a quiet voice, dripping with disgust at the ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
An astonishing movie that keeps you off-balance from the first scene. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
One of the most entertaining war movies of the past 20 years. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Scott Weinberg)
Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
We three kings be stealing the gold... ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
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Warner Brothers Presents In Association with Village Roadshow Pictures/Village -- A.M. Film Partnership, A coast Ridge/Atlas Entertainment Production; Executive Produced by Kelley Smith-Wait, Gregory Goodman and Bruce Berman; Produced by Charles Roven, ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at ShowBIZ Data
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Jack Choo
As the film begins to roll, it seemed to have a rather `light mood to it. `Special effects such as when Gates describes to his men how a bullet can kill simply paves the way for a lighthearted funny action movie. THREE KINGS is much smarter than that. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Jack Choo
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"Three Kings" is some kind of weird masterpiece, a screw-loose war picture that sends action and humor crashing head-on into each other and spinning off into political anger. It has the ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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Jeff Bogart
Alot of it was intense, meaningful images and situations. For those of you who saw it, an example would be when they made Wahlberg drink the oil. Only because of what it said about our involvement in the war (it will make more sense if you've seen ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Jeff Bogart
Looking Closer (Jeffrey Overstreet)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Wow.Wildly inventive, darkly comic, starkly visceral, politically subversive and richly humane --Three Kings, one of Hollywood's first takes on the 1991 Gulf War, is a bona fide original.And it burns off more energy than a ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
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Homer Yen
"The Three Kings" is a fine film about a small group of soldiers who venture out beyond where most soldiers have gone during Operation Desert Storm and see things that others never did. When an Iraqi prisoner of war is searched, a map is found that ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Homer Yen
Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
When the true message of the film gets literally--I mean literally--shoved down your throat (ahem), the spell for me was broken. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Rotten Tomatoes - Reviews from the Nation's Top Critics
Christian Pyle
At the beginning of "Three Kings," the war has just ended. While stripping a prisoner, Troy (Mark Wahlberg) and Conrad (Spike Jonze) find a map sticking out of his butt. Special Forces Major Archie Gates (George Clooney) discovers that the map shows the ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Christian Pyle
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David O. Russell (Spanking the Monkey/Flirting With Disaster) sets his contemporary story in Iraq during the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, as he lampoons the motives behind U.S. foreign policy, questioning what President Bush's war really ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
AboutFilm.com (Jeff Vorndam)
In the end, Three Kings opts for a safe and somewhat soft resolution that is not as satisfying as the preceding 110 minutes. It would have been difficult to arrive at any other outcome however, because the point is to underline the American greed that ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at AboutFilm.com (Jeff Vorndam)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
A lot of bodies get hit by a lot of bullets in movies these days. And a lot of those movies don't take much time to contemplate what it means to be struck by a bullet--the violence of the impact beyond the immediate visceral excitement experienced by an ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Michael Dequina
The latter, of course, owes a great debt to the ensemble. As the ringleader of the gang, Major Archie Gates, Clooney is his typically charismatic self, and it's a testament to his costars' work that his formidable screen presence never dominates. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Michael Dequina
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Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Few are the ways that remain to behave as an original outlaw or antihero in American movies these days. So it practically moves us to stand up and salute when Three Kings shows how sedition can, indeed, be an act of heroism. Three Kings is a war movie ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
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Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
I'm not a big fan of the war genre at all because most of the films are, well to put it in simple terms - depressing, overly long or moral, and sometimes disgustingly patriotic (which doesn't carry well when it's not your own country being applauded). ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
Movie Reviews UK
Peace is hell if you go by Three Kings, an untidy but nonetheless significant muckrake of the Persian Gulf War. That's because it isn't until after Desert Storm's armistice that the shooting starts in director David O. Russell's cynically action-packed ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Movie Reviews UK
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube are soldiers fighting the Gulf War way back in 1991. (It's funny that the early 90s is now a period.) They discover a stash of Kuwaiti gold stolen by Saddam and face a choice - steal the gold or save the ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
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Three kings and a joker (all US military) stumble
across an "ass map" during a cease-fire during the
Gulf War. The map (which was found in an Iraqi
buttocks) could very well reveal the location of ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
An astonishing movie that keeps you off-balance from the first scene. It starts out a wisecracking, cynical action lark about four Gulf War GIs who see a way to steal a fortune. It ends up a sadly resigned indictment of market-driven American foreign ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Monkeyboy Review
Jesus wept! You won't have seen a film like this! Ever! Well, you might have seen bits of it in other films; there's elements of Kelly's Heroes, any heist movie, and even what looks like a bit of a homage to Star Wars. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Monkeyboy Review
Shay Casey
Clooney stars as Sergeant Major Archie Gates, an aging soldier, close to retirement, who is dissatisfied with the relatively unimportant role he played in the recentlyended Gulf War. While the other American soldiers celebrate the war's completion, he ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Shay Casey
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Susan Granger
'Remember "Catch 22" and "M*A*S*H*" those black comedies that captured the surrealist insanity of W.W.II and the Korean War? That's what David O. Russell attempts in this astute blend of action/adventure, drama, humor, and scathing political commentary. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Susan Granger
filmcritic.com (Athan Bezaitis)
With two ex-rappers and a guy from ER leading the cast, I wasn’t expecting much from Three Kings. Am I the only one that can still picture Ice-Cube being squeezed to death by a huge snake in possibly the worst movie ever, Anaconda? Or how about ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at filmcritic.com (Athan Bezaitis)
Movies for Guys
The style of the film is quite good as well, with film grain, over exposure, slow motion, and flashbacks being incorporated as just the right times to add a little extra "oomph" to the movie. Unlike a John Woo film, you don't want to groan ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Movies for Guys
Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
War movies have a tendency to either glorify violence in the name of a certain cause or to over-emotionalize about a certain cause. Finding a perfect balance between the two is a definite challenge for a filmmaker. With Three Kings, writer/director ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Media-Assault.com (Sean Caszatt)
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A quartet of American soldiers in the waning days of the Gulf War find a map that leads to a massive stash of Kuwaiti gold held by Saddam Hussein's forces. Getting the gold proves a cake walk, but Iraqi citizens who counted on the Americans to help in the ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Clooney, Cube, Wahlberg, and Jonze all do an adequate job with their roles, surprisingly, as does Cliff Curtis as Amir Abdulah, the leader of the rebels. Dunn also shows depth as the reporter. The cinema by Newton Thomas Sigel is perhaps the most ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
This film is like no other "war film" that I have ever seen. Sure, it does actually take place after the war, and isn't necessarily based on action or heavy machine gun shootouts, but you can still consider it a war movie considering the goings-on in ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
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Movie Gurus (John Ulmer)
A smart, funny and satirical look at the Gulf War. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Movie Gurus (John Ulmer)
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Netflix (James Rocchi)
Gulf War action-drama with heart, brains and guts falls just short of greatness. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
Lybarger Links (Dan Lybarger)
Three Kings is the rarest sort of action movie. It offers the expected adrenaline jolt, but it also has a surprising amount of heart and intelligence. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Lybarger Links (Dan Lybarger)
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Few are the ways that remain to behave as an original outlaw or antihero in American movies these days. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
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Set immediately following the end of the Gulf War in March 1991, when the infantry is planning to return home to their families, Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), on the eve of retiring from the military, discovers a document that points the way to a ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Dustin Putman
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Scott Renshaw
There's more than a little irony to the fact that THREE KINGS is just as visually striking as the Gulf War, and nearly as shaky in its substance. The story focuses on a quartet of U.S. Army soldiers eyeing a personal windfall as the war reaches its ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Scott Renshaw
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The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
As of yet, the only other theatrical motion picture dealing with the Gulf War has been Edward Zwick's "Courage Under Fire", from 1996. So it's amazing, when you think about it, that Russell has so soon found the courage to make a bizarre comedic ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Courage Under Fire was the first American movie about the Gulf War. Since then, there haven't been many others. David O. Russell's Three Kings becomes one of only a few mainstream efforts to venture into this underpopulated cinematic territory. Just as th ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
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ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
I am unsure whether Three Kings has much box office potential. Despite having several recognizable names on the marquee, the subject matter may not generate enough interest. The film can be seen on more than one level. For those who ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
The Persian Gulf War was a new kind of war -- fought on television, played out in primetime -- one in which American troops, relatively speaking, barely got their hands dirty, letting their high-tech toys do the work for them. Two Hollywood movies have ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
It makes for a cool-looking film, but what's the point of it all? In the end, the four soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze) have their plans diverted. Altruism comes in to play, and they find they are bound by "soldier's ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
"Three Kings" tells the story of three soldiers who, after the Gulf War has ended, decide to steal a cache of gold which Saddam Hussein as stolen from Kuwait. George Clooney, still trying to find a starring vehicle to fulfill his leading man potential ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
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Cinematter (Matt Williams)
It's been eight years since the Gulf War, and so far (aside from a few throwaway gimmicks in the Hot Shots series) only one film, Courage Under Fire, has told a Gulf War story. Courage Under Fire now has company: the new comedy-action-drama-war-heist ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
I’d like to see Three Kings again to catch any of the messages that I might have missed, and to see if it has any more power after a second viewing. I’d like to think it was a modern masterpiece, but for now, I’m withholding my judgment. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Akiva Gottlieb
"Three Kings" is not really a war movie. It begins just as the Persian Gulf War has come to an end, and the U.S. army is taking their final prisoners of war. As we learn through title cards which appear on the screen, Archie Gates (George Clooney) is a ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Akiva Gottlieb
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Four Gulf War soldiers find a map showing where Saddam Hussein may have hid millions of dollars in gold bullion stolen from Kuwait, and off they go on a treasure hunt. With George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Cliff Curtis and ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at kids-in-mind
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Bursting with energy and style it can barely contain (and sometimes can't), David O. Russell's Desert Storm caper flick "Three Kings" is one of the most exciting Hollywood action films in years, and the best Vietnam movie since "Apocalypse Now." Sure, ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
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Engages and enlightens. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Scott Renshaw's Screening Room (Scott Renshaw)
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I recommend the film for its unusual, high-rev style and its often bizarre sense of humor. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
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Ever since the days popular German novelist Karl May placed his Old West characters Chief Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in situations ranging from the antebellum South to the opening of the Cherokee Strip, the American western has held a very special ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at culturevulture.net (Les Wright)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
I have to admit that I didn't really want to watch this film. Despite the fact that everyone and his brother put it on their top ten lists, I didn't have any desire. I don't like George Clooney (let me correct that; I didn't like him). I didn't care for ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
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THREE KINGS has a fabulous first hour. Daffy, daring, and as black as any of the great war satires. The second hour starts sucking pretty quickly, due to political posturing, a drastic reduction in momentum, and an excess of screen time for a grating ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Movie Hell (Michael J. Legeros)
eFilmCritic
It has a distinctive look and feel, an atmosphere of burnout and chaos; it launches at a high energy level and generally stays there. The buzz, however, wears off fast. As with Natural Born Killers, the roughhouse style leaves an afterimage, but the ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at eFilmCritic
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In the closing days and immediate aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, George Bush made a monumental humanitarian error by calling on the Iraqi people to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Interpreting Bush’s insistent and repeated calls as a promise of aid, tens ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at culturevulture.net, Choices for the Cognoscenti
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Set on a day just after the end of the Gulf War, the plot is the ageold one about gold and greed. During the endofwar festivities among the jubilant American troops, some of them are still on the job rounding up the captives. One of the prisoners has a ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Steve Rhodes
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As of Thursday, March 20, 2003, we are. The United States' second foray into Iraq has begun, ostensibly to stabilize a war-torn Middle East and to liberate the Iraqi people. Diplomacy has run its course; nations that had been united behind American ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at The Filmsnobs (Stephen Himes)
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But when they break into a bunker where the gold is, their consciences catch up with them. Iraqi troops come in and slaughter most of the people, they also begin to attack the Americans. The group decides to help all of the people they can, get then out ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Frankie Paiva
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
While rounding up Iraqi prisoners after the cease fire during the Gulf War some GI's find a treasure map sticking out of an Iraqi soldier's butt. Under the leadership of Special Forces Captain Archie Gates they embark on a simple plan (remember last ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
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My main recollection of the Gulf War is of being branded a communist, subversive, and un-American by more than one obnoxious Yuppie. Having done my share of time wearing black armbands at antiwar rallies during the Vietnam war, the whole thing had a ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Cozzi fan Tutti Reviews 'n' Rants
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It's a breath of fresh air, but there's not enough to fill the room. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Film Written Magazine (Andrew Howe)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
The overall shallowness of Three Kings is especially regrettable since so much genuine talent has gone into the picture. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
JABII
There are so many irritating details in this movie that I'm not entirely sure where to begin. The utterly pointless violence in some scenes is quite irritating. For example, Clooney describes what a bullet does once inside the body to his cohorts. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at JABII
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New York Times (Janet Maslin)
Though Russell is most impressive for his writing and his immensely witty direction of actors, Three Kings begins by placing its emphasis firmly elsewhere. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at New York Times (Janet Maslin)
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Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
A fatuous exercise that takes its exciting premise and poisons it with boring characters, lifeless performances, and a general directorial stupidity. ...read the complete Three Kings movie review at Matinee Magazine (Chuck Rudolph)
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User Reviews
by K. Cooper on May 23, 2009
I really don't understand the people who don't get this movie. God forbid a war movie isn't about shooting and killing but about saving the people of the nation you've invaded. This film is true to life: it's dramatic, sometimes humorous, sometimes ...
by D. Kikuchi "Kikuc... on May 15, 2009
I am not one who enjoys war movies to say the very least. I run in the opposite direction. This movie was on TV and I got sucked in and couldn't walk away, even during the commercials. It was incredible, believable, and very moving & inspiring. I ...
by Genevieve Hayes on November 27, 2008
After the end of the Gulf War, four American soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze) stumble across a map (in the rear of an Iraqi prisoner, no less) that gives the location of a cache of Kuwaiti gold bullion that had been ...
by Casey Lischak on September 12, 2008
I remember how much I enjoyed this movie in the theaters and had not seen it for quite ahwile so I picked up the DVD.
It was just as I remembered it - engaging and engrossing from the beginning to the end. Clooney, Wahlberg and the others all turn in ...
by Jainendra Singh "... on August 30, 2006
This is a very entertaining movie. It has all the stuff of a good cinema like action,adventure,trill,drama. ...
by Jacob Cloud on July 23, 2006
One of the first films to address the Persian Gulf War. Manages to be humorous while equally addressing the despicable nature of the war and the broader implications of Western control in the Middle East. ...
by Puzzle box "smock... on January 09, 2006
Three Kings is a wonderful film that was directed by David O.Russell, he injects the film with alot of humor, action and some highly emotional scenes. The film was also inovative and highly original following the gulf war Goerge Bush snr. has just ...
by James F. Cote on September 14, 2005
This movie sheds a new light on the war in Iraq that is going on today. It makes clear what happened to the citizens of Iraq after President Bush Sr. decided not to continue into Baghdad and dispose of Hussein back in 1991.
The film is excellent in all ...
by hi on June 23, 2005
This movie contains good acting with George Clooney, Mark Whalberg, and Ice Cube. This movie takes place at the end of the Gulf War with four soldiers that want to get some money/ gold before leaving. But then things go out of conrol in this very unique ...
by DocSmithers on October 19, 2004
There is no movie that I recommend to friends more than Three Kings. It is a masterpiece. It's hard to pick an all time favorite movie, but this one could be mine.
"Major Gates, Major Gates, Major Gates!"
"We're taking more Iraqi prisoners ...
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