CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Derk Rodermond A friend of mine advised me to watch this movie, and didn't tell me anything about the movie. I took a leap of faith if you will.I am a huge action/comedy movie fan. Though after 45 min. of the movie I decided to do some research to find out whether this is a serious movie or a complete joke (I didn't even bother pausing the movie, it is playing at the background as I type). When researching I found out that it was an action/comedy movie, which was quite surprising for me. To my opinion this movie is so lame, and the storyline so uninteresting. I do not advice anyone to watch this movie who has at least a little bit of an developed movie taste. I honestly cannot believe George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg agreed to play in this movie. Of course when I recognised Ice Cube, I should've known.Btw, to make my advice relative. I'm not that picky, I even liked the movie "dude, where is my car" which is completely dumb but hilarious for it.If there is even a single person reading this review, and also happens to think "sh*it, what SHOULD I watch then?". Your answer is Blue Streak. Thats one funny movie.

view_and_review I'm writing this review with a huge disclaimer: I don't like war movies. They disgust me, they disturb me, they upset me. War movies typically exhibit the worst character in humans, generally it is the worst character in the "enemy" whereas the good guys--even if slightly flawed like this movie--are still saints compared to the bad guys. And the ones caught in between, the civilians, are just canon fodder. Either they are waiting to be slaughtered by their own or waiting to be saved by the magnanimous forces of good.Three Kings is not fully a war movie but it's darn close. I stopped the movie a third of the way through because I couldn't stomach it anymore and it's not like Ice Cube and Mark Wahlberg are worth watching. I heard enough racial epithets and saw enough berating and killing of the "others" to finally cry "Uncle!" I don't know, maybe this movie has a wonderful ending; I'm not sticking around to find out.

jimbo-53-186511 At the end of the Gulf War, 4 soldiers acquire a map from the most unlikely of places and discover that this map may contain the whereabouts of some hidden gold close to one of their bases. The 4 men set out on a journey to find the gold, but this is less than straight forward and the 4 men encounter both danger and some unexpected assistance along the way.I haven't read John Ridley's novel (upon which this film is based), but it seems that Russell's has given Three Kings a very tongue-in-cheek feel - this is perfectly fine with me as I'll always prefer a serious film that's laced with humour as opposed to one that is deadly serious throughout its running time. The humorous tone that Russell adopts through most of the film serves it well and the camaraderie is top-notch between the likes of Clooney, Wahlberg and Ice Cube. Although I like serious films with humour thrown in I do think that filmmakers should be careful about how much humour is injected into a film - using war as a backdrop gives the film serious undertones and these undertones shouldn't be forgotten. I personally felt Russell may have overdone things slightly here, but I definitely felt it was a case of more being right than wrong. The soldier's camaraderie is a major strength and it's therefore a shame that Russell makes very little attempt to develop their characters - there is a little insight into Wahlberg's characters life, but nothing is afforded to any of the other characters. Had their characters been developed a little more then it probably would have made it easier to invest in them as people.Despite the picture having a generally humorous tone, Russell still manages to deliver the goods when it's time to get serious. The film has a very realistic feel to it which is probably helped by the fact that some real-life refugees were used in the film's production. I also noted that Mark Wahlberg was actually electrocuted in the scene where he is being tortured - you can't ask for much more realism than that!!! This is perhaps the reason that the film feels so realistic and despite seeming silly at times Russell also remembers to give it a sense of realism as well.Although war and politics play a part in Three Kings it is a film that is more about human values and common decency and whilst it does have some minor weaknesses its many strengths more than outweigh these weaknesses.

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