movie review - Three Kings
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2003.10.14
This is an interesting little number set during the closing days of the first Gulf War. With incredible prescience, the story twitches about from scenes of partying US soldiers to the failed Iraqi uprising to environmental disaster. All the while, a certain 90's detachment makes you wonder just how real anything is despite the bullets and bloodshed that mark what is otherwise a rather good caper movie (even if it is one with a message).
The choice of cast (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, and Jamie kennedy) heightens the irony of a movie about some renegade US soldiers trying to steal a vast fortune in gold and ultimately delivering some Shia refugees to safety.
Recommended.