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** Colonel Faris al Ghazi, the head Saudi investigator working with the American team, is generally considered to be the film's best character (some of its critics say he comes the closest to carrying it by himself) who embodies AFatherToHisMen, AuthorityEqualsAssKicking, and gets the most arc and development of the cast.
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** Colonel Faris al Ghazi, the head Saudi investigator working with the American team, is generally considered to be the film's best character (some of its critics say he comes the closest to carrying it by himself) who embodies AFatherToHisMen, AuthorityEqualsAssKicking, RankScalesWithAsskicking, and gets the most arc and development of the cast.
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** Creator/RichardJenkins as BadassBureaucrat Director Grace cemented himself in many fans memory with just three scenes.
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** Creator/RichardJenkins as BadassBureaucrat Director Grace cemented himself in many fans fans' memory with just three scenes.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film features Arab-Israeli actor Ashraf Barhom as a Saudi Royal Army intelligence officer, who would later achieve fame in the States as Jamal Al-Fayed in ''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film features Arab-Israeli actor Ashraf Barhom as a Saudi Royal Army intelligence officer, who would later achieve fame in the States as Jamal Al-Fayed in ''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.''Series/Tyrant2014''.
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* CommonKnowledge: Several reviews of the movie called it a typical terrorist movie which happens to have one Arab movie character as a good guy, which ignores the roles of several supporting characters (such as Sergeant Haytham, Prince Ahmed and maybe even General Abdulmalik in a TokenEvilTeammate kind of way)
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* CommonKnowledge: Several reviews of the movie called it a typical terrorist movie which happens to have one Arab movie character as a good guy, which ignores the roles of several supporting characters (such as Sergeant Haytham, Prince Ahmed Ahmed, many of Faris’s minor subordinates and maybe even General Abdulmalik in a TokenEvilTeammate WellIntentionedExtremist kind of way)
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film features Israeli actor Ashraf Barhom as a Saudi Royal Army intelligence officer, who would later achieve fame in the States as Jamal Al-Fayed in ''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film features Israeli Arab-Israeli actor Ashraf Barhom as a Saudi Royal Army intelligence officer, who would later achieve fame in the States as Jamal Al-Fayed in ''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.
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** Janine Ripon (one of the witnesses questioned about the attack) has a surprising amount of fans for such a minor character due to being a NiceGirl played by Creator/AshleyScott.
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** Leavitt (played by Creator/JasonBateman) gets the least to do during the actual investigation and instead gets a PluckyComicRelief focus that many disliked and which could have been discarded in favor of giving serious focus on his Judaism and feelings of discomfort in the area. Notably, those scenes of Leavitt's which ''are'' the most liked are the ones where he's a DistressedDude and getting to be a serious character.
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** Leavitt (played by Creator/JasonBateman) gets the least to do during the actual investigation and instead gets a PluckyComicRelief focus that many (although not all) viewers disliked and which could have been discarded in favor of giving serious focus on his Judaism and feelings of discomfort in the area. Notably, those scenes of Leavitt's which ''are'' the most liked are the ones where he's a DistressedDude and getting to be a serious character.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Leavitt (played by Creator/JasonBateman) gets the least to do during the actual investigation and instead gets a PluckyComicRelief focus that many disliked and which could have been discarded in favor of giving serious focus on his Judaism and feelings of discomfort in the area. Notably, those scenes of Leavitt's which ''are'' the most liked are the ones where he's a DistressedDude and getting to be a serious character.
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** Leavitt (played by Creator/JasonBateman) gets the least to do during the actual investigation and instead gets a PluckyComicRelief focus that many disliked and which could have been discarded in favor of giving serious focus on his Judaism and feelings of discomfort in the area. Notably, those scenes of Leavitt's which ''are'' the most liked are the ones where he's a DistressedDude and getting to be a seriouscharacter.character.
** [[spoiler:Faris]] for some due to [[spoiler:His death feeling like a less powerful statement than his survival would have in a movie which gave some focus and depth to the heroic Arab characters.]]
** Leavitt (played by Creator/JasonBateman) gets the least to do during the actual investigation and instead gets a PluckyComicRelief focus that many disliked and which could have been discarded in favor of giving serious focus on his Judaism and feelings of discomfort in the area. Notably, those scenes of Leavitt's which ''are'' the most liked are the ones where he's a DistressedDude and getting to be a serious
** [[spoiler:Faris]] for some due to [[spoiler:His death feeling like a less powerful statement than his survival would have in a movie which gave some focus and depth to the heroic Arab characters.]]
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** Colonel Faris al Ghazi, the head Saudi investigator, is generally considered to be the film's best character (some of its critics say he comes the closest to carrying it by himself) who embodies AFatherToHisMen, AuthorityEqualsAssKicking, and gets the most arc and development of the cast.
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** Colonel Faris al Ghazi, the head Saudi investigator, investigator working with the American team, is generally considered to be the film's best character (some of its critics say he comes the closest to carrying it by himself) who embodies AFatherToHisMen, AuthorityEqualsAssKicking, and gets the most arc and development of the cast.
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** Creator/RichardJenkins as BadassBureaucrat Director Grace cemented himself in many fans memory with just three scenes.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Leavitt (played by Creator/JasonBateman) gets the least to do during the actual investigation and instead gets a PluckyComicRelief focus that many disliked and which could have been discarded in favor of giving serious focus on his Judaism and feelings of discomfort in the area. Notably, those scenes of Leavitt's which ''are'' the most liked are the ones where he's a DistressedDude and getting to be a serious character.
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** Colonel Faris al Ghazi, the head Saudi investigator, is generally considered to be the film's best character (some of its critics say he comes the closest to carrying it by himself) who embodies AFatherToHisMen, AuthorityEqualsAssKicking, and gets the most arc and development of the cast.
** Grant the SouthernFriedGenius MrFixit bomb expert played by Creator/ChrisCooper got singled out by some as the most entertaining of the American investigators. It helps that he's arguably the one who suffers the least from being a FishOutOfWater.
* HomegrownHero: There is a series of terror attacks in Saudi Arabia - and we follow a group of investigating US agents.
* JerkassWoobie: Jackson. Yes, he is an angry uncooperative man who shows some racism to the Arabs, but he did just lose his wife in a terrorist attack and found his children [[ChildrenAreInnocent standing over her body, confused and trying to put it back together.]]
** Colonel Faris al Ghazi, the head Saudi investigator, is generally considered to be the film's best character (some of its critics say he comes the closest to carrying it by himself) who embodies AFatherToHisMen, AuthorityEqualsAssKicking, and gets the most arc and development of the cast.
** Grant the SouthernFriedGenius MrFixit bomb expert played by Creator/ChrisCooper got singled out by some as the most entertaining of the American investigators. It helps that he's arguably the one who suffers the least from being a FishOutOfWater.
* HomegrownHero: There is a series of terror attacks in Saudi Arabia - and we follow a group of investigating US agents.
* JerkassWoobie: Jackson. Yes, he is an angry uncooperative man who shows some racism to the Arabs, but he did just lose his wife in a terrorist attack and found his children [[ChildrenAreInnocent standing over her body, confused and trying to put it back together.]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://youtu.be/Qfyg376Tdpg Finale]]. It would later be used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film features Israeli actor Ashraf Barhom, who would later achieve fame in the States as Jamal Al-Fayed in ''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The film features Israeli actor Ashraf Barhom, who would later achieve fame in the West as Jamal Al-Fayed in ''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.''Series/{{Tyrant}}''.
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