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Three Kings (1999)

★ 6.6 · 2,279 ratings on TMDB

It's good to be king.

Three Kings poster★ 6.6

A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything.

DirectorDavid O. Russell
CastCliff Curtis, George Clooney, Holt McCallany, Ice Cube, Jamie Kennedy, Mark Wahlberg
GenresAction, Comedy, War
The emergence reading

Three Kings keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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