| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998) |
| Director | Peter Weir |
| Writer | Andrew Niccol |
| Lead Actor | Jim Carrey |
| Cast | Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Release Date | June 5, 1998 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 43m(103 min) |
| Budget | $60 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 6.7/10 |
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THREE KINGS is a male appeal Gulf War action flick with twists beyond the teeth clenched heroes and sock ’em, shoot ’em, blow ’em up stuff. Shot in Arizona by quirky new director David O. Russell (Flirting With Disaster), it’s edgy, irreverent and stylish a Niagara like cascade of zooms, freeze frames, MTV fast edits, slow motion and blurry, nervous camera movement.
It’s a critique, in the anti Vietnam spirit, of ugly American behavior and refusal to get involved as Saddam’s thugs wiped up his enemies after he was presumably defeated. Crude, racist, trigger-happy Yanks stumble about. They are not so much evil as ignorant, messing up the good Iraqis. Then they are enlightened by the smarter, well-indoctrinated Saddam-ites. American women are unflatteringly represented by sexy, career driven TV journalists.
A small patrol (including Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube) is led by George Clooney as a wily, cynical Special Forces major. They go on a rogue mission of greed to find and make off with a cache of gold bars stolen from Kuwait. They bump into Republican Guards but also anti Saddam rebels and civilian hostages, who plead for help in getting to Iran. Clooney must decide between saving them or saving the gold.
The combat scenes, made more chaotic by the weird cinematics, range from grittily realistic to silly. And Saddam’s penchant for stealing anything movable is wryly worked into the plot.
The anguish of the civilians covers the macho heroics with a humane veneer. Their Muslim prayer, piety and family cohesion are also notably superior to the greed of the immature Americans. As pure adventure, this film adds some fresh images to the desert war genre. Problem language, combat violence, cynicism somewhat redeemed, adequate for mature viewers.
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