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Rules of Engagement
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4365
- IMDb #3736
- Rotten Tomatoes #3975
- Metacritic #3804
- Letterboxd #3908
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4469
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3706
- Metacritic Critics #3870
- Metacritic Audience #3463
- Criticker #2649
- Kinopoisk #2558
- AlloCiné #4100
- Trakt #3344
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 36, highest is Google on 78. Critics average 40, everyone else 61.
See the most agreed on films →A respected Marine colonel is put on trial for ordering his troops to fire on a crowd of demonstrators outside a U.S. embassy in Yemen, resulting in numerous casualties. The military prosecution argues he violated the rules of engagement. His only hope for defense lies with a cynical, washed-up lawyer and old comrade-in-arms, who must uncover what truly happened during the chaotic siege to prove his friend's actions were justified.
Details
- Director
- William Friedkin
- Writers
- Jim Webb, Stephen Gaghan
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) ROE Production, The Zanuck Company, Scott Rudin Productions
- Released
- 7 April 2000
- Country
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $71.0M
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