merelyaninnuendo Three KingsThe sense of urgency is kept alive throughout the course of the feature with a hint of amusing sense present in each characters that resonates the most with practicality no matter how much peculiar and unpredictable it may go later. David O. Russell is as usual brilliant on his work and aces on handling such big stars on a screen in the most subtle possible way addition to the powerful script he co-wrote with John Ridley. Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney and Ice Cube (surprisingly he is good too) all of them are doing a great job supporting each other in this almost 2 hour journey and gives enough room to each other too. Three Kings had a great new and fresh concept that is well taken care of on script with keen sense of humor where the rest of it is left upon the performance objective which is satisfied utterly by the actors.

Rob Wright Hands down one of the most Original, Unique and enjoyable films I've ever seen. To take a harsh gritty story about greed, The politics of war and the deaths of woman and children and combine both the harshness with the right blend of comedy was genius and it was all played out on screen perfectly. The story was superb and you truly didn't know where it was going or what would happen next, Combine that with the fusion of sad, funny and awe moments and this is surely one of the most rare films you will ever see. Written, Acted, directed and edited superbly, A must watch for all film enthusiasts looking for a truly captivating, thoroughly enjoyable and memorable film.

Mr-Fusion "Three Kings" is all over the map - sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing action, war/heist movie - and that erratic behavior works in its favor, up to a point. I was onboard and entertained for the movie's first 45 minutes, but then the movie becomes a bit too top-heavy, mired in its anti-war message and the racial tensions. Basically, once Mark Wahlberg is captured, it just sort of slogs. It feels like it's flavored by "Apocalypse Now" (sure seems as long). There's an uplifting (Hollywood) ending that gives the movie back its step, but between those bookends when the gold's in our main characters' possession, it's not nearly as interesting.I get the feeling this would've been a lot more subversive had I seen it 15 years ago. That's on me.6/10

juneebuggy Set amid the confusion at the end of the Gulf war initially I found Three Kings to be really obnoxious, it just left a bad taste in my mouth with all these American soldiers acting like a-hole cowboys, using their guns as toys because they hadn't seen any combat action, shooting stuff up, being racist and running around like they own the country. Hard to find that humorous. I've come to realize though, that may have been the point here.This did get better for me as the movie went along and by the time GI's George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube had sufficiently "disappeared" into the desert with their audacious plans of stealing the stolen Kuwaiti gold, experienced one ridiculous screw up after another so that now their mission is actually helping refugees (Cliff Curtis) and running for their lives. When the obnoxiousness took a back seat, I began to really enjoy this movie and admit to getting several laughs along the way.Ultimately this ended up being much deeper with a bigger message than I had counted on. 9/24/14