By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Universal Pictures.
The Kingdom
Though I was first fooled by some Yahoo! trickery, I finally figured out how to watch the first four minutes of Peter Berg's The Kingdom. For anyone who has seen the trailers, you can assume that the opening minutes are harrowing.
Or are they?
Four Minutes of The Kingdom
The film starts off with a timeline of clips that try to explain the ideology behind the Saudi people and government. It takes the timeline approximately three no, the entire running of the clip to get to the film. Yes, we don't get to see any real footage from The Kingdom, but a compilation of clips used from older news reels and such.
The opening timeline is at least creative and interesting, as it describes the growth of Saudi oil, America's dependency on it, and a nice little CG graph that becomes the World Trade Center towers.
It turns out that terrorism has quite the history, and the fallout has given Saudis a bad name.
Check out the four-minute clip at Yahoo! Movies. Be sure to click that you want to watch the clip, and only then choose a high-def format.
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