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"Rules of Engagement (2000) IMDB In the vein of such military courtroom dramas as A Few Good Men and The Caine Mutiny, comes Rules of Engagement. The short version: One Marine Corps. Col. Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) must defend his decision to fire on a crowd of protestors at the US Embassy in Yemen. Defending him is his buddy since Vietnam, who was saved by Childers in a nasty battle there, Col. Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones.)At the core of Rules of Engagement is the entire principle of the boundaries of war. In fact one of the characters spells it out quite clearly, "There's a thin line between a war hero and "
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"Like Peter Bogdanovitch, William Friedkin was one of the New Wave filmmakers that won the sprint but lost the marathon. Although he made two of the best films of the era (The French Connection and The Exorcist) Friedkin never lived up to the promise of those two masterpieces, infrequently directing a series of forgotten movies, aside from his infamous disaster Crusing. But is the reputation really correct? Well, Rules of Engagement is a good movie, but I certainly never would have guessed that Friedkin was behind it. Unlike the director's classics, this film is relatively faced paced and heavily reliant on dialogue as opposed to visuals and tone. It's also more about an idea than it is a feeling- which would not necessarily be a criticism, but I missed gritty paranoia of French Connection and Exorcist's tone of impending evil. It's 2000 and world wide peace has reduced the US military to limited peacekeeping and search and rescue operations. Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackso ... "
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