Rules Of Engagement Page #3

Synopsis: Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam combat. He then returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. Hodges in no position to decline: Childers heroically saved his life back in Vietnam.
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Director(s): William Friedkin
Production: Paramount Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
R
Year:
2000
128 min
Website
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I'll personally recommend you...

Where's the belt?

- I'll personally recommend...

- Hold it!

Where are you going? What? Colonel!

Colonel, we can't wait here!

Come on! Let's get out!

Come on!

Let's go! Christ!

We're leaving

in just a few seconds.

Let's go! Why are we sitting here?

Why are we sitting here?

- Sir, please! Look at me. Stay calm.

- Let's go!

She's free, sir!

Go!

Hope you know how

to fold this, sir.

Thank you, Colonel.

I'll never forget this.

Sir.

Go!

Krasevitch is hit!

Corpsman! Corpsman!

Sh*t!

Goddamn it!

F***!

Six, Red Man.

Engage hostile targets

as they appear.

Deadly force is authorized.

How copy? Over.

Red Man, Trans Six Actual.

Negative, negative!

Be advised, I have women

and children in my line of fire.

I got snipers in the buildings

at 400 meters. How copy? Over.

What is it about this order

you don't understand, Captain Lee?

Sir, are you ordering me

to fire into the crowd? Over.

Yes, goddamn it!

Waste the motherfuckers!

Six out.

Engage! Engage!

Open fire!

Cease fire!

Cease fire!

Cease fire!

Stay down! There may still be

snipers out there.

Cease fire!

- Cease fire, goddamn it!

- Everybody stay down!

There may still be snipers

out there. Stay down!

Get down!

- Sergeant Mac.

- Sir?

Contact all stations.

Mission complete.

Launch medevacs.

Dead and wounded out first.

Aye, Colonel.

All stations, this is RedMan.

Mission complete.

Move all medevacs to L.Z.

Howcopy? Over.

The FBI. investigation shows...

that all the bullet holes

in the embassy wall...

came from directly across

the way, from the snipers.

Any weapons or ammo found

among the dead or wounded?

No, sir. Nothing.

However, intelligence suggests...

this could have been

a terrorist operation.

Any proof?

This is a tape from

the embassy security system.

- Want me to thread it up?

- No. I don't want to watch videos.

I don't want to hear about

ammo casings in some building,

'cause here I got

unarmed...

women, children, old men.

Another hundred or so

critically wounded.

Here I got an international

crisis of mega f***ing proportions!

Bill, you know there have been

regular reports...

of a terrorist

plot against this embassy.

This was a regularly scheduled

protest. It was every week.

It was the usual bullshit about

American presence in the gulf.

Have you looked at these?

I mean, I'm just assuming you have,

since they're on the front page

of every newspaper in the world.

It's not that the rest of the

world wants to hold us responsible,

we are responsible!

We can't even have

the appearance of a cover-up.

That does not excuse us

from our duty, Mr. Sokal.

We sent Colonel Childers in there,

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Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed. more…

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