Rules of Engagement 4K 2000 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

Yemen, 1996. Marine Colonel Terry Childers and a squad of Marines are tasked with evacuating the U.S. ambassador and his family as an Islamist demonstration outside the U.S. embassy quickly spirals out of control. Soon the most radical demonstrators begin shelling the embassy, and Childers' squad comes under fire and suffers casualties. Childers orders the crowd to return fire, resulting in the death of 83 demonstrators and a large number of seriously wounded, among them women and children. An international scandal erupts, and Bill Sokal, the U.S. President's National Security Advisor, decides to pin all the dogs on Childers to cover the rear. Upon arrival, the colonel is accused of wrongfully killing civilians and will now be tried by a military tribunal. Childers asks old friend and battle buddy Colonel Hayes Hodges to be his lawyer. Hayes, who is already retired, cannot refuse Terry, since he saved his life in Vietnam in 1968.

Review 4K Movie

First of all, the movie attracted my interest by the fact that I love courtroom dramas and to follow the twists and turns of the trials in the pictures, filmed by professional directors, gives me real pleasure. So, if this genre leaves you indifferent and boring, then with viewing this picture please do not bother.

The next moment, which spurred me to watch - this is my affection for a kind of actor's movie duels. Despite the fact that the heroes of Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson in the movie are on the same side of the barricades, to follow their duet in the artistic dynamics is a pleasure. The action of the picture, by the way, is entirely tied to the game of these great performers, specifically on their dialogues and individual monologues, very bright, emotionally colorful.

The synopsis of the picture concerning the brief content of the movie by virtue of its pathos-declamation character and length caused me perplexity. Therefore, I will risk to present a brief overview of the plot. The real American hero Marine Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson), who defended the colors of the national flag in a huge number of wars and armed conflicts, finds himself under court martial on a whole list of charges, the most serious of which is the murder of eight dozen Yemeni residents during a military operation to evacuate the U.S. ambassador and his family from the embassy building, which was subjected to a mass shooting by an armed mob.

Despite the fact that Childers, ordering his subordinate sailors to open fire on the crowd, acted in a state of extreme necessity, trying to protect his soldiers from death, government and military officials in order to silence the international scandal are trying to make a scapegoat out of the heroic colonel, not even shying away from falsifying evidence. To defend Childers in the upcoming trial, in the outcome of which the whole country is sure, will be his friend and former comrade-in-arms Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), now a military lawyer. And the right to make decisive conclusions about the degree of justification and proportionality of the use of force by the U.S. Marines will be left to a jury and the moviegoer.

Director William Friedkin shoots rarely but aptly. Prior to 'Rules of Engagement' he hadn't shot for the big screen in five years, and as a result he has come out with a dramatic work that is quite interesting in terms of plot concentration development and excellent in terms of acting. Not too original idea, some pathos on the background of playing out a number of scenes with a patriotic bias and a slightly exaggerated simplicity in the display of judicial and procedural episodes, however, does not spoil the overall positive impression of viewing.

Guy Pearce, a real actor-worker, whom I respect immensely for his willingness to star in any role interesting for him, even if the proposed movie project initially does not claim to be a potential blockbuster. In this movie, the actor created a memorable image of a scumbag-lzhepatriot, a military lawyer for the prosecution in court, thinking clear, unappealing templates of the American justice system. Pierce's character is in many ways similar to his Ed Exley in Secrets of Los Angeles, only in 'Rules of Engagement' Guy Pearce's character evokes one continuous antipathy, with an irresistible desire to drive himself as a proper fist on his bureaucratic-looking face.

William Friedkin, as always, shoots without regard for the calibrated box-office success of his works, political correctness and other conventions, and this is good, the entertainment and social acuity of his film works from this only benefits.