I saw The Kingdom. Pretty awful. Not a very action-driven film for those wanting the kind of fun of a Die Hard or Bourne Supermacy. It's kinda clumsily emotional and the characters are fairly black and white.
As the guest reviewer of Ebert and Roeper said, it feels like a pre-9/11 movie in not trying to explain any of the terrorists political motivations.
The action is at the start and the finish, and the US agents behave far more civilly in tense situations than US soldiers do and most human beings normally would.
Jennifer Garner is awful as usual, but she's given bad dialogue anyway. She does her usual eye squinting and pursed lips. She looks hot, though.
I liked the Entourage guy's one line to her.
Jason Bateman's character was the worst, insinuating stereotypical anti-semitism on the part of regular Saudi troops; even if they did dislike Israel, it's unlikely they would even hint at an issue in front of US agents. Generally, Bateman acts like the comic fodder with unfunny material.
Jamie Fox is okay, but, again, the character is cheesy.
I did really appreciate the final moments of the film for showing some commonality of hatred possible among both sides. It's a notch above racist Hollywood films of the 80s and 90s (like "True Lies") which only saw Arabs as terrorists, especially in comedic films.
Still, I didn't HATE it that much because I went in there knowing it had cast Jennifer Garner and the over-rated Jamie Fox.
Didn't notice Bullet the Blue Sky either.