Underrated-Overrated

Think THOAD and THOD, although THOD has become so irrelevant there may be no need for a rating at all. In this segment, I will present underrated and overrated movies, directors, actors, and humans.

The underated movie of the day is "The Kingdom". Peter Berg, also known as Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope, directed this intense ACTION movie starring Jamie Foxx. The story is centered around terrorism and is based in Saudi Arabia. Apparently this very setting means that this movie must be cutting edge and issue brilliant commentary on the state of the Middle East and the role of the U.S. in the world. Rottentomatoes.com , which compiles the opinions of almost all critics, gave the movie a 51%, and many of the reviews were similar to the one written by Alanso Duralde of MSNBC.
"It fails in its attempt to be a serious drama with important things to say about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East." Ooooh, Ooooh, Oooh, I'm Alanso, and I'm going to use this opportunity to take a movie based in Saudi Arabia to show the world about how much I know about the situation and how little Peter Berg does. Get over yourself you prick, I hate critics like this. I prefer the thoughts of Christian Toto from the Washington Times: "The Kingdom unapologetically shows U.S. agents knocking off terrorists." This is a good action movie that suffered the consequences of snobby assholes weilding their power with the pen.