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Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement

6,3 /10 (798 Votes)
2000 EN 127 min

Overview

A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen.

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Release date

07/04/2000

Votes

798

Popularity

2.1

A hero should never have to stand alone.

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

127 min

Budget

$60,000,000

Revenue

$71,000,000

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2023-04-21

⭐ 5

**It had everything to be much better and complex, but it was deliberately simplified to become a courtroom drama with touches of puffed up patriotism.** I was never in the military, I didn't need to be (I'll be the first to volunteer if my country needs it), but I am the son of an ex-military man, a war veteran with years of combat in Africa. And I know that, when you are in a combat scenario, the rules don't matter, what matters is getting out of there alive, and the concern of an officer with soldiers in his charge is to accomplish the mission with the minimum of casualties, to do the jo…

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-03-30

⭐ 6

After a squad of US Marines are despatched to rescue their embattled ambassador to the Yemen (Sir Ben Kingsley), the mission turns quite deadly and the National Security Advisor (Bruce Greenwood) concludes that it’s in everyone’s best interests to take the commander - Col. Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) and hang him out to dry. Luckily for them, he has a bit of a reputation as a maverick and so the court-martial could just be a box-ticking exercise for the prosecuting Maj. Biggs (Guy Pearce). Short of allies amongst the powers that be, Childers recruits veteran Col. Hodge (Tommy Lee Jones) to pu…

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