15 Great War Movies (Nobody Ever Talks About)

Released in 1999, nowadays Three Kings is best remembered as "that film where George Clooney and David O. Russell got in a fistfight onset".

It's a shame too, since the film is also an early vehicle for the acting talents of Ice Cube and Mark Wahlberg, as well as a blackly comic heist thriller which doubles as a vicious satirical indictment of the Gulf war.

Here a trio of amoral soldiers use the cover of the invasion as an excuse to loot gold, a potent metaphor for the war's thinly veiled motivation as an oil-rich land grab. The stylish flick is witty, darkly funny, and propulsive, making this one an unmissable addition to the underrated war film canon.