Ok, I’ll admit, the movie was pretty cool while I was watching it, but upon further reflection I like it less and less. So on one front it worked—it was entertaining. But on another, it was a disappointment.

While I don’t know how accurately Saudi Arabia is portrayed in the film, I do know that it glorified the Americans beyond normal human status (or so it seemed to me). We (the Americans) were the ones who wanted the crime investigated. We were the ones who knew how. We were going to bring justice. That was one gripe.

I also didn’t really go for the hand-held camera thing. So often it doesn’t convey action or confusion or anything. No, too often it conveys that the director doesn’t know how to stage an action scene or build suspense without resorting to cheap tricks that doesn’t give the audience credit to know what is supposed to be action.