Three Kings

[led210]

One of the funniest movies I've seen is Three Kings, which is a military-caper comedy that seems to have been inspired by Kelly's Heroes. Both movies are about U.S. soldiers who go looking for gold behind enemy lines, although Three Kings takes place during and after Desert Storm in 1991.

I love George Clooney's performance as the crafty officer who leads the small group of soldiers into southern Iraq on the search for stolen gold bars taken by Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait.

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Archie Gates: Sit down. What do you see here?
Chief Elgin: Bunkers, sir.
Archie Gates: What's in them?
Troy Barlow: Stuff they stole from Kuwait.
Archie Gates: Bullshit. I'm talking about millions in Kuwaiti bullion.
Conrad Vig: You mean them little cubes you put in hot water to make soup?
Archie Gates: No, not the little cubes you put in hot water to make soup.

[leedug]

This is a comedy? I've heard of this movie but I never bothered to watch it. Thanks for the little mini review. I may have to check it out.

[sreeja]

Three Kings" does an excellent job of showing just how gonzo modern warfare has become. You've got unemployed reservists going to the Middle East for kicks fighting Saddam, who uses gas attacks, electric shock torture and other atrocities to fight the rebels. Thrown in the mix are a U.S.-educated Iraqi whose businesses were destroyed by the Americans, a bunch of rebels and refugees living in bunkers, a CNN-type correspondent facing the threat of younger reporters, and Mark Wahlberg's character finding a cell phone in the Iraqi bunker and using it to call his wife in the U.S.

[crassus]

I always wondered about this movie, and I certainly didn't know it was a comedy. Maybe now I will get it. It seems like it is real cheap now.