Rules of Engagement war movie

Rules of Engagement (2000, United States)

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Rules of Engagement

Director: William Friedkin

Czas: 125 minut

Laguages: English

war movies infoAdam 'Frey' Barczynski
2024-04-07 / 1970-01-01

Vietnam veteran Colonel Childers is sent to Yemen to evacuate the ambassador and his family, but on the arrival they realize the situation is much worse they have expected.

Vietnam veteran Colonel Childers is sent with unit of US Marines to evacuate the American ambassador from Yemen. The embassy is under siege from protesters, who throw stones at the building, so it seems a straight enough mission, but when their helicopters arrive to the location Childers realizes the situation is far worse than his superiors lead him to believe. The protestors are using not only stones, but also Molotov’s cocktails, but the real problem is that several armed men are shooting at the embassy and helicopters from roofs of nearby buildings. During the evacuation of ambassador and his family few of the Marines are wounded and Childers gives the order to open fire even though his was not authorized to do so. Over 80 civilians are killed and after return to United States Childers is put on trial accused of, among other things, murder of those people. He chooses his former superior from Vietnam, Colonel Hayes, as defence attorney.

Rules of Engagement is one of those war movies that are so bad it is hard to believe someone thought it was a good idea to make it. Where to begin? The original script might have not been that bad, but we will never know since the creators got the Department of Defense cooperation, which on one hand means they had access to military equipment, but on the other usually means that someone from the army tampered with the script. In case of Rules of Engagement I hope someone did, because it takes a real soldier to come up with scenes and dialogues so corny and so cliche it hurts to watch. From scene in which Childers runs to get down the American flag, through nasty politicians messing with evidence, the dick-swinging tales of how tough the Marines are to the extremely boring courtroom scenes it is just a parade of really bad writing and not very good acting.

Our rating

3.6

Film value

2 / 10

Realism factor

4 / 5

Adventure factor

1 / 5

Historical accuracy

2 / 5

2024-04-07

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