Three Kings

War movies have always succeeded in stimulating interest among the audience, often with an overdose of patriotism. In the recent past we have had two masterpieces in this genre with Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. If you were complaining that these movies were too grim and lacked a bit of humor then this movie attempts to address it. But the humor is dark, and don’t expect any respite on the action front. If anything it is even more macabre than most of the others.

The movie is set in the period immediately after the Gulf War in 1991-92. The American Arm....