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Rules Of Engagement
2000 Drama
Length: 127 min
Rated: R |
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Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson
As anti-American protesters storm the U.S. embassy in Yemen, Marine Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) rescues Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) from the explosive siege. While under fire from snipers within the crowd, Childers orders his men to return fire, resulting in civilian casualties. To appease international outrage at an apparent war crime, the U.S. government court-martials Childers for violating the Marine's "rules of engagement," and his only hope rests on Marine lawyer Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a veteran who owes Childers his life for, ironically, a war crime committed by Childers in the Vietnam War. An intense, chiaroscuro courtroom drama and brutal combat film, "Rules of Engagement" takes a difficult look at the moral ambiguity of life in combat and the value of guilt, honor, and loyal sacrifice in the duty to one's country.
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