Sunday, June 7, 2009

Three Kings

06/07
Three Kings (David O. Russell, 1999) A

Three Kings is a 1999 satire war drama film written and directed by David O. Russell from a story by John Ridley about a gold heist in the style of Kelly's Heroes. It takes place during the 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein following the end of the first Persian Gulf War.

The movie stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze. Film critic Roger Ebert described it as a "weird masterpiece, a screw-loose war picture that sends action and humor crashing head-on into each other and spinning off into political anger." The film gets its name from the character Conrad's outburst: "We three kings be stealin' the gold...", a parody of the Christmas carol We Three Kings of Orient Are.

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