Some Reflections on Three Kings (1999)

What would it look like to mashup an indie sensibility with the war genre? That’s David O. Russell’s Three Kings.

I first saw this film in high school. Even though it had a collection of actors I loved at the time—George Clooney, Ice Cube, and Mark Wahlberg—I didn’t quite get it.

Depicting the clean-up phase of the first Gulf War, repelling Saddam Husse…