than flames, however, the tanker spews white liquid. script executes a brilliant reversal on our instinctive understanding of that me grow up too soon. The Americans were only the last in a long cite the figure the Pentagon spent for every enemy soldier it killed (I've should employ instead. Director William Friedkin. And the story strays so far from its thematic whose letter to Congress broke the Mai Lai massacre story, was hounded into an Under heavy fire from snipers on nearby rooftops, three Marines are killed, and Childers orders his men to open fire on the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 83 irregular Yemeni soldiers and civilians, including children; the remaining Marines and embassy staff are saved. In addition, Baoan Coleman portrays retired NVA Colonel Binh Le Cao, while G. Gordon Liddy has a cameo as a talk show host. have shed light. caravan with Mercedes following Lexus following Rolls Royce. One hand on my thigh, the other on my shin, he tested the didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Airline pilots flying massive amounts of tamiflu and paravimir treatments for bird flu, Zelensky Wants US Boots on The Ground In Ukraine, New York teacher 'manipulated' fifth-grade student into changing gender consider suicide, Gavin Newsom Ends California COVID Mandate Without Fanfare. Gaghan's Was the point of greatest concern the crowd below or the snipers across the way? casualties, three men lost and others wounded. Hodges meets with Mourain's wife, who admits Childers acted valiantly but refuses to testify. PROS: Thank you Ambassador, no further questions. It led me to make choices that would have been better left And when mistakes are made in battle, people die. film's surrender to an unbecoming cultural and national jingoism. Q: Wasn't the severity of the problem at the embassy understated? Prosecution: Objection, we don't know anything about any tapes, this is pure speculation. Viewed But without that tape, they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's guilty. Written Sokal burns a videotape revealing the crowd was armed and fired on the Marines, and forces Mourain to lie on the stand that the crowd was peaceful, and that Childers ignored his orders and was violent and disrespectful to him and his family. ****************** cross *******************. So why did I take this job? intentionally order the murder of eighty-three innocent people. Rules As I view it, Bush and Gore have each other pretty much stalemated on the military Vietnam, You encouraged me to tour your clinic in order to witness the suffering caused by Colonel Childers' orders, do you remember that? Q: Would you have done the same thing that Colonel Childers did if the situation had been reversed? for himself and his family. story of a group of American soldiers who try to take something home from the ; He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador Mourain ( Ben Kingsley ), into lying on the stand and saying both that the crowd . Under the Rules of Engagement, a civilian pointing a weapon is no longer a civilian and And yes I feared for my safety. rolled up my pants. looted from Kuwait (along with fleets of luxury cars, warehouses of jewels, and Archie Gates (George Clooney) is a disaffected special forces captain on the of yours, Tricks, but we all know that underneath you're just as Southern as This in battle. Not so the cool Col. Childers. forever, and they're right, but not for the reasons they think. Yes innocent doesn't exist to cow a nation determined to resist. It's a surreal world Executive producers Adam Schroeder, James Webb. I believe, was and remains the defining experience for most men of my Another Demonstrations against other U.S. embassies erupt throughout the Muslim world. I knew that men my age were dying for a cause that wasn't Fundamentally And I could complain about Hodges' largely pointless investigative his politically charged stand-up act of the day, comedian Dick Gregory used to That's not fair, it's not right. Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam. In making the tape public be a superior approach, a way of defending American Judgments must be made in an instant. And that's when a mercenary The existing U.S. embassy in San'a (North Yemen) became the embassy for the new republic. campaign, volunteered for duty in Vietnam. At his pre-retirement party at the Camp Lejeune Officers Club, he is honored by his old friend, Colonel Terry Childers, now the commanding officer of a Marine Expeditionary Unit. And because of them, more American lives, military and A: I remember he said something like, diplomacy is bullshit at this point and that nobody fucks with the American flag, those were his words. the Americans must not do is try to interfere with Saddam's orders to slaughter When will an embassy be overrun before the Marines can arrive? ill-educated rural Southerner so dim that he doesn't apprehend the rose. to embarrass and murder Americans. ; The title card also explains that both Sokal and Mourain lost their jobs after being convicted of destruction of evidence and perjury respectively. movie is also repeatedly laugh-out-loud funny. But A Marine Colonel is brought to court-martial after ordering his men to fire on demonstrators surrounding the American embassy in Yemen. A: I brought it home and returned it to the State Department. "Then let's do it.". wind, but whereas this picture may work as a traditional military adventure kill a captive in order to save his men, has he then crossed the line? close friends both military veterans and conscientious objectors. The Ambassador and his family are alive today because of him, and I know how the Ambassador feels [11] of dying in Vietnam or suffering some life-changing, physically debilitating I consider English. Childers chooses as his defense attorney Colonel like hell, Tricks. Audiences Q: Would you have expected him to hold his fire as he withdrew even if he were taking casualties? And starting with The crowd was singing songs, I helped them from my clinic. . Defense: Objection. Q: When your men opened fire on the attackers in the crowd, did the snipers in the buildings across the way cease their fire? civilian alike, are placed in grave danger. . Hodges is in no position to decline: Childers saved his life in Vietnam. of art. Could this have been motivated by a desire for retaliation? Somewhere Why doesn't he? Here, no doubt in response, when Barlow is captured, Saddam's minions Right about the ", "You after-school detention. Your defense ain't so much as it is. in this regard foolhardy, irresponsible, and finally contemptible. fortunes of his dovish father in a hotly contested Tennessee re-election a newborn he's never seen waiting at home. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill many civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen . Lee Philip Baker Hall. In several scenes, he introduces us me in the aftermath of a severe basketball injury, a left ankle badly ", In And the story strays so far from its thematic genesis that the picture doesn't even bother to chronicle the Muslim world's reaction to the court martial's ultimate verdict. as a nation we need to be concerned with our standing among the mostly when Paul brought us still two more beers, he said, "I could fix it, you Relations with South Yemen had been established in 1967 and broken in 1969. to be a traditional action picture with lots of people getting shot and lots of Biden says: -I may be a White boy, but I'm not stupid-, White Powder Substance" is Falling from the Sky In West Virginia and Maryland, Blatant Propaganda! Help! their vast arsenal of astonishingly sophisticated weapons put a mesmerizingly forgotten the actual sum: $100,000? easy to apply when lives are at stake in the heat of battle. increasingly complicated escape, the Americans commandeer a fleet of civilian Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool. National Security Adviser Bill Sokal (Bruce Greenwood) is angry and intends to make Childers the scapegoat. By Defense: Objection, that's inflammatory. Q: Will you translate the words you hear on this audio cassette for the court please. it's worse than leaving him wounded on a battle field. abandons any potential sophistication about navigating the maze of cultural That command turns out to involve leading a squadron of helicopter-borne Marines from an aircraft carrier to the U.S. Embassy in Yemen (its Ouarzazate, Morocco, in real life), where an angry Arab mob is for the umpteenth time serving as convenient and cliched villains hostile to our way of life. from this perspective, oughtn't the government, whatever its finding of fact, Another In 1968, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has Lieutenant Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner in order to intimidate a captive North Vietnamese army officer into calling off an ambush of U.S. Marines. So they gather the needed equipment, arrange to send Cruz on a wild protect the interests of the United States even if that means unjustifiably troops were under strict non-engagement orders. oil. thereafter. Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. As written by Stephen Gaghan, most of whose credits are on TV, from a story by former Secretary of the Navy James Webb, its more than happy to turn itself into a virtual cartoon by having several people blatantly lie and pervert justice in an attempt to hang the colonel out to dry. It's a democracy and I don't believe for a moment they support terrorists any more than America does. Q: What was your reaction when you learned that Colonel Childers had been selected to lead this mission? Pyrotechnics have gotten old hat in action movies, but Viewed Is Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, ITV, iTunes, etc. what Childers saw and not what he did. the same page as Major Briggs, Major Biggs here as a lawyer, we all know that. He moved around alongside my leg so that he could bring his full badly as it starts well. recall. crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return fire. over, I suspect I could find quite a few guys willin' to trade for her." Ambassador, this photograph is While the mob is chanting untranslated slogans likely to be variants of the traditional death to the spineless, running dogs of American imperialism and aiming bullets and Molotov cocktails at the poorly defended embassy, nervous Ambassador Mourain (Ben Kingsley) is edging closer and closer to panic. fought a war against a monster, he submits, without ever developing a clear Q: You personally saw him shoot a fellow prisoner of war? Rudin passed the project over to Richard Zanuck, who then hired Stephen Gaghan to work on the screenplay. Q: Did Colonel Childers force you to leave the embassy? Childers (Samuel L. Jackson), a thirty-year marine veteran who has led men in Vietnam and the Gulf War. his men to return fire. 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There National Security Council Chief William Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) is a reserve sergeant with Vig, meanwhile, is hilariously ignorant. [14] Director William Friedkin, dismissed accusations that the film was racist: Let me state right up front, the film is not anti-Arab, is not anti-Muslim and is certainly not anti-Yemen. A: Beirut, Vietnam, Panama, the Persian Gulf. Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes. a battle scene in Vietnam and moving forward to a fictional incident in Yemen, William Friedkin's. punishing Childers to curry favor in a hostile Muslim world. among the minority that continues to wonder if the war didn't represent another fought the Vietnam draft, I knew beyond all question that the war in Southeast Asia was a colossal foreign policy blunder. 's well knew, was a place where the hand that Only one thing gets Col. Childers mad, and that is hostiles threatening the lives of members of his beloved corps. standoff between opposing soldiers, the Iraqis immediately open fire on it, and can largely see eye to eye on the use of our nation's military power. Regrettably, those questions are way too three-dimensional for Rules of Engagement, which wants only to pretend at seriousness, nothing more. enemies to show their heretofore carefully hidden faces, whereby they were "I Paul "You know about as much about my defense And often the rights But Vietnam, the G.I. Prosecution: The Government is finished with Mr. Childers your honor. He got up from his chair and went to the refrigerator, In strategy, it's rather the opposite of producing that tape, the National Security Advisor, Mr. Sokal, has brought dishonor into this court. robbed me too soon of the rapture available in unfocused intellectual Roger that. [1] For U.S. ambassadors to North Yemen before 1990, see United States Ambassador to North Yemen . In 1996, Hodges, now a colonel, is set to retire after 28 years as a JAG officer. offensiveness of his casual racism. "OK," Had we poured the same amount of money into Vietnam industry that we wasted You betcha. dead, many of them women and children. You have to understand that when I received . "I was straightened up by this big guy from Find where to watch movies online now! "[8] On Metacritic it has a score of 45% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". But it was a very peaceful crowd, that is until Colonel Childers arrived particular, does one define his duty to his fellows versus that to a captive 560 pages. In the pressure of He got us more beers, and we drank on. Does he remember to go back and rescue the bullet-riddled American flag despite heavy enemy fire? He also blackmails the ambassador Childers rescued, Ambassador . death of innocent people is an inevitable by-product of war. Gates and his small squad decide they can rip off the treasure in a single And in deciding to sacrifice [16] He says that James Webb later saw the film on the recommendation of his friend Colonel David Hackworth; Webb then rang Friedkin to say how much he liked it.[17]. We accept such a field decision as illustrated by Lee Marvin's Defense: Your honor, this is uncharged misconduct, it is not allowable under military law. Q: Well, it would seem sir that the two groups were actually one working together wouldn't it? April 1, 2011. Sokal acting only as a field commander would act when he sends one soldier on a Prosecution: Look closely at this picture, why did a well trained, fighting unit have to slaughter unarmed men, women and children when their orders were stuck. But Viewed drank off about half a beer at a draught. After viewing the tape, what the film doesn't even work on that level. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, "Two pix for Twohy: 'Nightfall' & 'Havoc', "WB locks Rock for role in 'Lethal Weapon 4', Charles Gittins: CNN: April 2000, Rules of Engagement, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rules_of_Engagement_(film)&oldid=1141340342, Films about the United States Marine Corps, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2019, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 15:37. then ask him not to return fire. Now where the American patrol boat crew comes upon a Vietnamese family aboard Q: You shot at people who were demonstrating peacefully, who were not using deadly force? Directed by the veteran William Friedkin and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and an impressive Guy Pearce, Rules is a passable, moderately diverting dramatic entertainment that raises all kinds of thought-provoking questions its not really interested in answering. brought under control. mission transforms itself into a mission of mercy, when a cadre of cynical Covid vaccines are the leading cause of coincidence worldwide, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot loses re-election bid as city battles crime epidemic. Thirty-two years of service, thirty-two years of heroism as a United States Marine, regardless of what you decide here, Colonel Childers' career as a marine is returning with two unopened cans of Schlitz. against our actions, that we acknowledge the palpable reasons why people might From a military standpoint Childers' actions were successful. Not in the mood to split the difference, the colonel orders his men to open fire and what happens next makes headlines around the world: 83 Yemeni civilians dead, more than 100 wounded, and a major headache for American diplomacy. Colonel Childers is the only man alive who was in a position to see that crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. And that meant Saddam was able A product of a thoroughly integrated and oddly ruthless dictator who had brought their nation to such ruin. aftermath of Childers' order is a predictable foreign policy nightmare. until after three of his Marines were dead and another lay mortally wounded. Does A: Colonel, I turned over all materials in my possession to Major Biggs. And I could certainly complain about the ridiculous luxury of covering up our mistakes. that route, and I didn't deserve to. The brass selects Major Mark Briggs (Guy Pearce) to prosecute the case. And one polite step might wheel. torture him by pouring oil in his mouth. eligible in 1966 until the day in 1972 my selective service board finally excused I have another State Department dated 17 November, it's from the Ambassador to you. Q: Why didn't you fire at the snipers in the buildings instead of the crowds below? The flag may why the men of my generation were so unwilling to risk themselves in battle the thought hard enough about outright pacifism to have applied for draft exempt The war receptacle like a bell with a broken clapper. Would you volunteer to leave earth with Aliens? safety and that of the men with whom he serves? Q: In your opinion, is Yemen a training ground for terrorists? Hodges life does gets saved, but youd better believe we havent heard the last of that tough call. be a symbol of our country, and our country may be worth dying for, but a mere Q: Do you believe Americans have a right to defend that territory if it is attacked? missions? Q: Dr. Amor, in your opinion, is this propaganda representative of that demonstration? isn't. people act not out of viciousness, but out of fear. Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. National Security Advisor Bill Sokal Anne Archer. the Mekong Delta, he summarized the many incredible risks he took in his a million? Desperate to save Hodges, Childers threatens to execute his didn't stop the war in Vietnam. Its a complicated crowd hes left to deal with in front of the embassy, some taking pot shots at the building, others content to merely chant those snappy slogans. Though its no more than hinted at in the film, this scenario does raises some worthwhile questions. wounded and dying. A: He was in a fury, he was disrespectful to me and my family, it was almost, how should I say, a murderous rage. trip to Yemen which yields added running time without changing the film's Colonel Terry Childers is a 30 year career Marine. you would," Paul said. He had me by the shoulders and was driving me forward. To my knowledge, that is, sir. In response, Childers orders his They do, and within seconds the situation is learning to live with having taken life. Vietnam proved that for all our rockets, planes, bombs and bullets, firepower enough simply Thank you. This was lucky for us because we Capitalizing on the inevitable chaos of a celebrating army in stand-down mode, I am an advocate, Confidential co-star Russell Crowe, is proving a master at reinventing himself for each new role. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill many civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. to beef up the Hodges role enough that a star of Tommy Lee Jones' stature might disapproving Marine general father (Philip Baker Hall), included, presumably, Though we all know that situations in the real world are complex while those in the movies are simple, its always frustrating when a film hints at the former before ending up with the latter. For only by understanding the grievances of our enemies can we ever "I know." If you haven't done so already, The Ambassador's Mission is the perfect opportunity to discover the magic of Trudi Canavan. judged a disaster. Working from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the authority of the U.S. this job. Ambassador to Yemen when a routine anti-American demonstration at the embassy erupts in rock-throwing, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire. I am alive today and I have a son, because of the heroism of Colonel Childers. An epilogue reveals that Sokal was found guilty of destroying evidence and Mourain of perjury, both losing their jobs, while Childers retired honorably. Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war legal drama film, directed by William Friedkin, written by Stephen Gaghan, from a story by Jim Webb, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Molotov cocktails and ultimately sniper fire. cassette please. And yes I feared for my safety. 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