Three Kings (DVD)

Having recently purchased my first stand-alone DVD player (I have a useless one on my computer) I have been hitting the DVD stocks of my local store. Unfortunately the stocks are even more limited than the choice of films on video and I have already seen most of them anyway! Still, this is not necessarily a bad thing and I have found a few entertaining films that I might not have otherwise seen. One of these films was Three Kings. Viewing the trailers made me think it was all action and a very weak plot. To be honest, it was not very different from my initial impressions, but I did find it more entertaining than I expected. Cast/Characters %%%%%%%% ...  Read the complete review

Three Kings is a satirical war drama film, released in 1999, and is directed by David O. Russell. It stars big name director Spike Jonze (Jackass), and big stars George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube as four army soliders who try to heist stolen bullion from the Iraq's in the Gulf War. The film apparently gets it's name from when in the film Conrard Vig (Jonze) sings 'we three kings be stealin' the gold'; a parody of the christmas carol 'we three kings of Orient are'. *Synopsis* Major Archie Gates (Clooney), Sergeant Troy Barlow (Wahlberg), Cheif Elgin (Ice Cube) and Private Conrad Vig (Jonze) are four U.S. soilders on the hunt for millions of ...  Read the complete review

Three Kings is a war film set in Iraq during the first Gulf War, directed and written by David.O.Russell it's a satire with style and substance. The film follows three US soldiers, Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg), Staff Sergeant Elgin (Ice Cube) and Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze). While Barlow and Vig arrest an Iraqi soldier, they find a map in his buttocks while searching him, the map lists some secret Kuwaiti treasure of Gold bullion. Major Archie Gates (George Clooney) hears about the map from a journalist and confronts the three, advising them that they must all search for the loot. Whilst searching for it, the guys find the gold and a number of Iraqi rebels, but ...  Read the complete review

Having seen several trailers for Three Kings at the cinema, and on other videos, I finally decided to get hold of a copy on video. This film was nothing like I expected. The storyline portrays four US soldiers, who are based in Iraq at the time of the Gulf War. The war has just finished, and many of the men are itching for some real action - having not really taken part in the conflict that has just ceased. They discover a map - I won't tell you where it was concealed - that shows a secret hoard of Kuwaiti bullion stolen by Saddam Hussein. The men decide that they will, under cover of the US Peace Treaty, recover the gold before they return home to the ...  Read the complete review

This film is set in March 1991in Iraq, at the end of the Gulf War. Whilst most of the American soldiers are preparing for their return home to the United States, a few are more interested in looking for a stash of stolen gold bullion to steal in order to change their lives for ever. An Iraqi prisoner is found to be hiding a map which seems to show where the gold bullion is hidden and so a motley group of American soldiers go in search of the gold. The group is led by Major Archie Gates, a Special Forces officer (played by George Clooney). The other members of the group are Sergeant Troy Barlow (played by Mark Wahlberg), Conrad Vig (played by Spike Jonze) and ...  Read the complete review