| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

This movie is a blunt object -- blunt, but not particularly effective.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Jones and Jackson in uniform absolutely command our respect.

| Jan 1, 2000

The sentiments here are thoroughly semper fi, but the result occasionally works at cross-purposes.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Reconfirms the talent of onetime wunderkind director William Friedkin.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The two actors are soldiers of hard-headed substance at attention in a field of milder actors at ease.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2000

It doesn't have the chops or the ambition to wrestle with the questions it raises.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

A run-of-the-mill legal thriller that hopes to be a little more.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

At its best, Rules Of Engagement is merely bad.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Rules of Engagement never engages us.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A broad and obvious approach to ambiguous material that's virtually all plot mechanics with little nuance or characterization.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

What rescues the movie, time and again, is the strength of Jones' and Jackson's performances.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Cruelly drab.

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

This drama about a massacre in Yemen takes on unexpected interest because the main character, a fiery-eyed Marine combat hero played by Samuel L. Jackson, is presented as a believably flawed man.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Nothing can redeem this film's deep immorality.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

There is little suspense.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

What rescues the movie, time and again, is the strength of Jones' and Jackson's performances ... and the capable direction of William Friedkin.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000