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Rules of Engagement

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Critics' Reviews

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The drama ultimately retreats to safer, duller, more illogical, and more reactionary impulses and stereotypes.Read Full Review »
70
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Friedkin turns on the juice and Jones and Jackson let it rip.Read Full Review »
63
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Works splendidly as a courtroom thriller about military values as long as you don't expect it to seriously consider those values.Read Full Review »
60
NewsWeek: Ted Gideonse
Jones even manages to save this somewhat tiring film.Read Full Review »
50
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Mike Clark
The sentiments here are thoroughly semper fi, but the result occasionally works at cross-purposes.Read Full Review »
50
The New York Times: A.O. Scott
There's not much going on here, and there is little suspense.Read Full Review »
40
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
It is the verdict of this court that it be led to a stockade reserved exclusively for cheap, pandering movies and duly shot.Read Full Review »
38
Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
A casualty of its own clumsy storytelling.Read Full Review »
38
Boston Globe: Jay Carr
Strenuously as it tries, and pulse-poundingly successful as the embassy rescue scene is, Rules of Engagement never engages us.Read Full Review »
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