After a terrorist attack to an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and the spy Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the South Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to revenge their friend and try to find the responsible for the bombing. The agents fi... nd all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.
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Kingdom, The A political action thriller starring Jamie Foxx as the head of an elite FBI team trying to track down a group of terrorists in the volatile, dangerous world of Saudi Arabia
For anyone who's been wondering what the classy, intricate political drama Syriana would have been like with less talk and more explosions, we now have The Kingdom, a slick thriller that welds the difficult subject of Middle Eastern politics onto a slice of hard-edged action. Hollywood has made many attempts to deal with the War on Terror, but here we're in a purely commercial frame of mind, as the story sets out to tell a fast-paced tale of good guys versus bad guy...