I disliked Three Kings, but for a reason I have seen no one
mention -- its historical inaccuracy.
The opening clearly sets the time as the very end of the Gulf
War, around the time hostilities stopped. The remainder of the
movie takes place within a very short time thereafter, no more
than 48 hours. And yet, prior to the point when the characters
set foot in Iraq, the people of Southern Iraq had already
rebelled, the Iraqi army already crushed the rebellion, while the
U.S. and its allies already turned their back. How all of these
events, which played out over a period of several weeks after the
end of hostilities, occcurred within 48 hours, so that the U.S.
position towards the rebellion was known to every common Iraqi
soldier and rebel, is totally ignored here. By the time the
rebellion had been crushed, our reservists would have been safely
home, the reporters would have gone on to the new world hot spot,
and individual soldiers could not have crossed into Iraq to try
to loot the country.
