{"id":1911,"date":"2008-07-26T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2008-07-26T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T15:30:00","slug":"the-kingdom-worth-a-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"The Kingdom Worth a Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SIoY9diBD0I\/AAAAAAAABbc\/5ItMwT2rN9k\/s1600-h\/z072608the_kingdom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SIoY9diBD0I\/AAAAAAAABbc\/5ItMwT2rN9k\/s400\/z072608the_kingdom.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227017761695272770\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Pitch:<\/span> An <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">American FBI unit <\/span>is begrudgingly sent to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saudi Arabia<\/span> with limited time and resources to find out who was behind a devastating bombing attack on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">American<\/span> civilians.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>The Good:<\/span> The opening credits which through voice-over and animated timeline give us a brief, but entertaining history of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saudi Arabia<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Peter Berg\u2019s direction<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jason Bateman<\/span> is surprisingly good &#8212; I didn\u2019t realize he could be a tough guy.  The kidnapping \/ shootout \/ rescue scenes will keep you on the edge of your seat.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>The Bad:<\/span> What happens if you\u2019re even suspected of a crime in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saudi<\/span> military. <\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>The Ugly:<\/span> What eventually happens to most bomb makers.<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/p>\n<p>The Summary:  <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000Y7WGOW\/002-4882510-2093642?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zone_books-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B000Y7WGOW\">\u201cThe Kingdom\u201d<\/a><\/span> doesn\u2019t, pardon the expression, blast out of the shoot.  It takes it\u2019s time to tell the story, but once the kidnapping takes place things really move.  I enjoyed it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch: An American FBI unit is begrudgingly sent to Saudi Arabia with limited time and resources to find out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}