There's a lot of handheld camera work in Three Kings, and some of the scenes are even shot using a really cheap camera. But instead of twig figures and piles of rocks, the symbols of evil in Three Kings are garish, amateur murals of Saddam Hussein plastered on the walls of the various bunkers in the movie. One even shows Saddam wearing an incongruous mortarboard, just as if he had graduated from the Baghdad Institute for Evil Dictators. But the filmmakers, again displaying their liberal prejudices, spend much more time reviewing the supposed evils of the United States. The US is as much of a Great Satan in Three Kings as Saddam.
Characters continually wonder what the purpose of the war is.
There haven't been a great deal of Gulf War movies made. Likely, we won't see many more. The Gulf War was such a shattering triumph for America and its allies that it's difficult for Hollywood liberals to use it to denigrate the American military and American values. Three Kings accomplishes that difficult feat to a degree, but that's a reason to bury it, not to praise it. This boring, overlong, pretentious movie does a disservice to the American soldier and the American audience alike.