Rules of Engagement

This movie is a real disgrace! I have to admit that I just saw the scene of the assault on the American Embassy, but the unlogical and provoking things happening in this 10 minutes already were enough to let me... Full review

Tommy Lee Jones and Ben Kingsly are Oscar winners. Samuel Jackson is an Oscar nominee,and Guy Pierce has many nominations and wins in his future. None of these actors, nor the excellent supporting cast can fix the confusion and unbelievability... Full review

I really enjoyed this movie. The plot is quite understandable contrary to what others who haven't left the country would think. The story is led by remarkable actors in Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson and it combines a great... Full review

To be honest with you I thought that the acting by Samuel L Jackson was poor. However I thought that the acting by Tommy Lee jones was amazing, the story is absoultuely incredible! Really good film overall, a must watch and... Full review

This story gets the viewer involved with it right away never lets up, with good performances all around, although Tommy Lee Jones stands out a bit above the rest. There are some outstanding action scenes in the first 30 minutes... Full review

This movie is very profound movies I have ever seen.Storyline is very impressive.Actors did a splendid job.Direction is marverous.This movie is worthy to see over and over again.... Full review

Jones is magnificent and Jackson is remembered as a good actor here. A great cinematic movie. Not to be missed.... Full review

The first time I saw this movie, I loved it. But at a second viewing, I realized with dismay that there was a major discrepancy in it that invalidated the entire point of the film. Almost every movie has a goof... Full review

One of the most laughably bad films I've seen in a long time. I watched this film on the basis that Jones and Jackson were in it and it offered the chance to realistically depict a politically sensitive event. The... Full review

There's more realism in the plot of Star Wars than in this piece of garbage. Lazy plotting, poor acting, conspiracy theory nonsense... it's the world as Hollywood wishes it was.... Full review

Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson are a commanding twosome, and there's genuine movie magic at work on screen. Potent and satisfying, Rules of Engagement has a big impact with its big stars, big issues and examination of morality. ... Full Review

A mix of courtroom drama, buddy film and war actioner, Rules Of Engagement has plenty of interesting ingredients. "Even if you don't agree with director William Friedkin that this is the best, most important film he's ever made, Rules Of Engagement is worth investigating on DVD. ... Full Review

By the time the verdict is rendered, it seems anticlimactic and arbitrary - possibly because neither side gives very convincing arguments. There are some fine moments here - particularly Mr. Jones' vehemence that he is not a good lawyer. ... Full Review

Jackson and Jones, as has been proved countless times before in better movies, are actors of tremendous gravity. Traveling to Yemen, he encounters a hospital filled with dying children, but his misgivings fly out the window, along with any ambiguity the film possesses, when he discovers that a nefarious national security advisor (Bruce Greenwood) has hidden a videotape showing that, dead children be damned, Jackson might have been justified in his actions. ... Full Review

In "Rules of Engagement," America's naughty lack of a good ol' war-time sensibility has relegated the United States military into nothing more than the occasional security guard it has become. One of the most damaging developments to Hollywood in recent years isn't that indie films are selling out, or that all the filming's been relegated to dullest of Canada, or that celebrities and magazine covers are now more important than actors and acting, it's that there's no damn wars going on anymore. ... Full Review

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