Rules of Engagement (2000) (Special Edition; Sensormatic)

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overall kind of weak

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Rules of Engagement (2000)

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Kingsley
Director: William Friedkin
Producers: Richard D Zanuck, Scott Rudin
Writer: Stephen Gaghan
Distributor: Paramount

Plot: The U.S. embassy in Yemen is stormed by anti-American protesters, Marine Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) rescues Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) from the explosive siege, and under fire from snipers within the crowd, he orders his men to return fire, resulting in many civilian casualties. The U.S. government court-martials Childers for violating the Marine's "rules of engagement," and his only hope rests on veteran Marine lawyer Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones).

Review: I thought it was pretty good simply because it kept the audience entertained, with Jackson and Jones acting there it is bound to be a quality movie anyway. I thought it was predictable, but let me explain. I mean its pretty obvious what's going to happen and you can figure out the story easily. I want to know why doesn't Colonel Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) just get some sort of evidence of what kind of holes were put into the outside of the embassy, he sees the bullet holes when he visits Yemen so all he had to do was get a team to investigate (how long ago and at what distance they came from). He could of gotten a "pro" to study and examine those holes on the embassy, then he could actually prove there was shooting below. I mean that would of been difinitive evidence. The storyline just seemed overall kind of weak, if you've seen this you know what I mean.

Rating: 6/10

I liked it

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 2, 2001

The ending was a little predictable, but I liked the courtroom drama and emotion. Great flick.

thats the way it is

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 2, 2001

this movie has shown us that the government of the US can be corupt. but it also explains the feelings of the Middle East. this movie is a great one for the military buffs.

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jan 30, 2001

Don't listen to the nay-sayers about this film. They are mostly viewers upset by a very un-politically correct exercise in what today's warfighters must endure. It is the overall theme of betrayal by career conscious bureaucrats manipulating and second guessing real life grunts-on-the-ground that is the true message. Everything else is just a detail to be overlooked in this testosterone filled flick from the jungles of Vietnam to stinking middle-east outposts to the courtrooms of military justice.

Sweaty and Goose Loving

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 11, 2000

This movie is perforated with ridiculously incremental displays of purposefulness - antequated prior to their revealing by the very thing which yields significance to the masses; tofu. That is, tofu of the metephorical kind; bland and spongy with little to no taste or smell. Its a delicacy in some countries, so I hear... and to me, viewing this film was as encompassing as a well sauteed fart in the bowels of a fat man. Will you like it? Does that matter? We watch this movie for its fortitude and display of grief amongst directors.

GREAT

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 17, 2000

Oscar winning director William Friedkin (The French Connection) picks the right actors to lead the way in this exiciting tense drama. Although war scenes do occur, this is not a war film like The Thin Red Line . The movie centres around Samuel L. Jackson and his ex war buddy Tommy Lee Jones (who is now a mediocre lawyer with past problems).
Jackson's character is accused of murdering 83 innocent? people in Yemen. When Jackson learns he'll spend the rest of his life in prision he asks Jones to be his lawyer.
This film will keep you entertained to the very last second while telling you the rules of engagement along the way.
A GREAT MOVIE.

Outstanding

By Yahoo! Shopping User  May 5, 2000

This movie keeps you wondering "what really happened?" The slow unfolding of events throughout the course of the movie adds to the already tense battlefield and courtroom action. A definite must-see film.