| RULES OF ENGAGEMENT |
 2000
- USA
Director: William
Friedkin - Reviewed by Tom  Samuel
L. Jackson plays Col. Terry Childers who is a 30-year veteran (and of course a
hero) of every war since Vietnam. Back in Nam, he saved the life of Col.
Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) and of course Hodges never forgot that and owed
him for it.
While leading a rescue mission to save the family of the US ambassador in the Middle East, Childers loses a few good men and his temper. "Blow them all away!" he commands his troops and kills 80+ men, women and children and of course causes an international incident. Col. Hodges had just retired from his job as a military lawyer and of course Childers asks him to defend him in court. Hodges agrees to do it (even though his lawyer skills suck and he had lost most of his past cases) as payback for Childers for saving his life 30 years earlier in the Vietnam swamps. The movie then turns into the typical court drama that we have all seen many times before, but this one takes place on an Army base, so everyone is wearing uniforms with all the fancy medals, purple hearts, and other glittery things on their chests. The movie was alright, but really didn't stand out as anything new to me. A little action now and then, with a trial in between all the war flashbacks. The war scenes seemed kind of "clean" and didn't really seem that convincing—a few good helicopter flying scenes, a few gun battles. The court scenes were pretty typical with screaming lawyers, a judge that tells them to shut up... etc. An OK movie, but nothing much else. When the movie was over, it didn't really leave much of a lasting impression... one of those that you forget about a half hour later. |
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