Review: A royal crowd-pleaser

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“Kingdom” comes. Then it turns the plague of international terrorism and the complicated conflict in the Middle East into a cross between this year’s “A Mighty Heart” and a kickin’ episode of “CSI: Riyadh.”

A massively lethal jihadist attack on an American oil company housing compound in Saudi Arabia sparks an investigation by a crack team of gutsy FBI agents who must overcome sensitive diplomatic relations, internal executive branch squabbling and a cell of bombing extremists who want them dead.

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