Mjeteconer Just perfect...

SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

adonis98-743-186503 An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a third world country. Rules of Engagement benefits from excellent work from actors Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Guy Pearce and of course an excellent and talented Cast in general. The story is interesting enough and the characters are well written and the viewer can of course feel sympathy for them. This film is not as good as 'A Few Good Men' but it's still a terrific Drama, Thriller and War Film that thanks to it's amazing leads and great story succeeds from start to finish. (10/10)

Python Hyena Rules of Engagement (2000): Dir: William Friedkin / Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood: Retread formula that seems to reference the delicate reality of life and how one decision can end it. It has a powerful plot concept that seems spliced together from other films. It begins in Vietnam 1968 where Tommy Lee Jones is rescued by Samuel L. Jackson. Central plot regards an attack on the American Embassy by snipers in an Arab city. Jackson orders retaliation when weapons appear among civilians resulting in the slaughter of women and children. Jackson is brought to trial and seeks Jones to represent him. There is nothing surprising about this recycled plot. Director William Friedkin does a skillful job at staging the civilian chaos but with The Exorcist and The French Connection he had tighter screenplays to back him up. Jackson and Jones have played these roles countless times and the drill is getting tiring. Jackson played this out in A Time to Kill and The Negotiator, and Jones seems poised to get people out of trouble. Guy Pearce is playing the typical opposing lawyer. Ben Kingsley is featured in the opening chaotic scenes but he seems merely typecast. This is a well made political thriller that is bombarded with familiarity. Bottom line is that Friedkin is too far above this engagement in familiarity. Score: 5 / 10

davidhenriksen clearly a political movie that seeks to portrait all Arabs as potential terrorists, even the little girl. wonder what critics would have said if it had been a little Jewish girl being portrayed as a terrorist. probably would have been uproar. this however went unnoticed. the Israeli government couldn't have scripted the movie better themselves. an embarrassment to Samuel l. Jackson. ill be sure to research all his movies before watching more junk like this. written by the US army, says it all. cannot believe this junk was in movie theaters all over the world. should be banned. makes me sick to my stomach. three years after this pile of crap was released American soldiers invaded Iraq.

blanche-2 "Rules of Engagement" from 2000 is a fairly derivative film. Directed by William Friedkin, it's the story of two men, Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson), a 30-year Marine veteran and decorated officer; and Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), now an attorney, a man with whom he fought and whose life he saved in Vietnam and has retired.Childers is sent on a rescue mission in Yemen that goes awry when the protesting crowd outside the embassy starts shooting at the Marines. Childers, who already has men down, orders his soldiers to fire into the crowd. He is able to evacuate the embassy but finds himself in trouble due to the fact that no one believes the protesters had weapons. He is put on trial and asks Hodges to defend him. Hodges doesn't feel he's a good enough attorney, but he agrees to take the case.There is a tape of what happened, but the head of security (Bruce Greenwood) who doesn't want the United States to take the rap for killing civilians and would rather have it fall on a soldier, burns it. And Childers gets no support from the Ambassador (Ben Kingsley) or his wife (Anne Archer), and the attorney on the other side (Guy Pearce) is out for blood.We've seen this film in various guises before, and the good versus evil is typical Hollywood. The acting is good but I have difficulty understanding the casting of Ben Kingsley, a great Oscar-winning actor, who is completely wasted in what is not even really a supporting role. Anne Archer plays his wife. The two have a small son and have been married for ten years. May I suggest that though it's entirely feasible that Archer at 43 had a child, the casting seems a little off. Often, when directors want a certain actor, the agency representing them agrees on the condition that the director take other people on his roster. I suspect this is what happened here; the casting is not quite right for these distinguished actors.Tommy Lee Jones in particular is good as Hodges, though he has the showier role. Samuel Jackson is always very good and gives a strong performance as well, but there's something very stereotypical about both parts. Bruce Greenwood at least is interesting casting - he seems pretty mild-mannered as the Head of Security, but there's a treachery underneath.All in all, this is an okay film, one where you know how it's going to end and basically what's going to happen while it's going on. We see two stars who have done their roles before in other circumstances. So in the end, while it has its moments, it's somewhat routine. One of those if you've seen one, you've seen them all type films.