Rules Of Engagement (US)

A really good movie.
I really like court dramas, but this one has that special edge that other court dramas don`t. It`s both realistic and totally convincing.
Both Jones and Jackson are brilliant in their roles.
The video transfer is very good. There are no compression signs at all and the different scenes are rendered in great colors.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is overwhelming. It is one of the best soundtracks I`ve heard in a long time. The scenes in Vietnam and Yemen utilize the surrounds amazingly.
The menus are very nice and simple.
The extras include a very enlightening (and humble, I must add) commentary track by the director, some behind the scenes and interviews with the crew. All the extras are good.
Bottom line - a great drama with awesome action scenes and a superb soundtrack.

Rules of Engagement is a great movie. It begins in the Veitnam War when Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L Jackson) saves the life of his best friend Colonel Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) . 28 years later Childers is still a commander of US marines and Hodges is a lawyer about to retire. Terry Childers is sent to Yemen to save an American ambassador (Ben Kingsley) and his family from a US embassy which is under fire by snipers and then it turns into a riot. Terry notices that the crowd of demonstrators in front of the building is firing at the marines and knows the only way to save the lives of his men is to open fire on everyone who was out there. His men are all under cover on the roof and he is the only marine that could see the crowd firing. After the marines fire on the crowd, the Yemini government cleared up the area of all evidence such as weapons and when the marines get back to America, the media and everyone thinks that Childers just opened fire on a crowd of unarmed people and because of that he has to go to court and is facing charge of murder and he then asks his best friend Hodges to defend him in court. There was evidence but it was destroyed by the US National security advisor. The court scenes are very good in this movie. At the end, the court finds out that the crowd was armed and that Childers had a right to respond with deadly force and they release him. The DVD is very good. There is a director`s commentary and a couple of featurettes. This disc deserves a 10/10