Rules of Engagement [Region 2]
by William Friedkin
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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Bruce Greenwood, Guy Pearce, Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: William Friedkin
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dolby Digital 5.1; Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled)
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Movie Reviews of Rules of Engagement [Region 2]
Movie Review: Interesting as a Snapshot in Time
Summary: 3 Stars
Interesting scenario; Battle hardened Marine Colonel drops in to secure a besieged embassy and evacuate the staff. His men are getting killed by snipers and a hostile crowd. He gives the order to engage, but is the only person among the group with a clear view of the armed bad guys in the crowd. The Marines fire on the crowd and it creates a firestorm in the press and the State Department with everyone trying to save their careers by sacrificing the Colonel.
Even more interesting to me is what this movie portrays almost exactly a year prior to 9/11. Although very relevant post 9/11, I suspect that nobody would touch this script with a 10-ft. pole today.
One of the stronger images in the movie, also more relevant today than when it was released, is when the Colonel leaves the courthouse after the verdict and is verbally attacked by the media and public but saluted by his former enemy, the North Vietnamese Colonel.
Not a great movie, but one worth watching. If nothing else, it gives a fictional example of why you should not believe everything you hear/see from the media.
Summary of Rules of Engagement [Region 2]
Director William Friedkin knows a thing or two about staging harrowing action sequences, and if you don't believe that, you've never seen The French Connection or To Live and Die in L.A. He comes through niftily in this film as well, with an opening Vietnam battle sequence that sets the stage for the rest of the story, and then with the central moment in the film: a rescue mission involving Marines extricating the American ambassador from an embassy surrounded by hostile protesters in Yemen. Unfortunately, Friedkin can't do much about the implausible plot that follows, in which the Marine commander, played by the always-terrific Samuel L. Jackson, is accused of slaughtering innocent civilians (who actually were shooting at him and his men). He must rely on an old Marine buddy--a lawyer played by Tommy Lee Jones--to get him through the jury-rigged court martial. But the central premise--that an evil presidential aide would perjure himself and destroy evidence simply to maintain good relations with U.S. allies in the Middle East, rather than defending a highly decorated Marine colonel who risked his life--is inevitably hard to swallow. And the ending is even flimsier. --Marshall FineMystery & Suspense DVD Video
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