[Russell] not only has designed an action-adventure laced with incendiary humor but a movie that wants to explore race, politics, war, the media and U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. In large measure, he pulls it off with breathtaking aplomb.

| Oct 25, 2019

It's amazing how much action can be crammed into a movie about a war where most soldiers didn't actually see any action.

| Original Score: 94/100 | Apr 9, 2009

A damning yet idealistic satire about the motives behind U.S. foreign policy.

| Aug 25, 2008

The last reel descends into a muddle of trade-offs, heroic about-turns and romanticised rebels, but this is defiant, provocative cinema; Russell may yet prove a film-maker to treasure.

| Feb 9, 2006

No, Three Kings is not a great picture, but it is a very good one, perhaps the first feature of merit to come out of the Gulf War.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 25, 2003

What lingers in the mind far longer than the smart dialogue, the slightly cartoon characterisations or the neat feel-good ending is a vivid sense of the sickening nature of modern warfare.

| Dec 2, 2002

Three Kings rules.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Three Kings manages to venture into places that most American films never go.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A mis-mash of styles makes this film as genre defying as it is compelling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The first Hollywood feature to take on the 1991 Gulf War, Three Kings does so in an impudently comic, stylistically aggressive and, finally, very thoughtful manner.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

On any hip-o-meter, Three Kings rules.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A sardonic, rock-'em, sock-'em Gulf War flick.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Imaginative and exciting.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Possibly the best wartime comedy since Robert Altman's M*A*S*H.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

David O. Russell's nervy attempt to reinvent the war movie and a further step in the evolution of an audacious and entertaining filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's George Clooney's best showcase to date -- a picture that is as strong as the war itself was dubious and one-sided.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Though Russell is most impressive for his writing and his immensely witty direction of actors, Three Kings begins by placing its emphasis firmly elsewhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Three Kings takes a comfortable proletarian view of Desert Storm.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

Few are the ways that remain to behave as an original outlaw or antihero in American movies these days.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Three Kings is one of the most exciting Hollywood action films in years, and the best Vietnam movie since Apocalypse Now.

| Jan 1, 2000