Rules of Engagement (2000)

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75	Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum The drama ultimately retreats to safer, duller, more illogical, and more reactionary impulses and stereotypes.
75	San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham But the single most compelling performance may belong to Australian actor Guy Pearce.
70	Rolling Stone Peter Travers Friedkin turns on the juice and Jones and Jackson let it rip.
63	Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert Works splendidly as a courtroom thriller about military values as long as you don't expect it to seriously consider those values.
63	New York Post Jonathan Foreman As mechanical and predictable as a cuckoo clock, it shouldn't work half as well as it does.
63	Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman The setup doesn't make sense from the get-go.
50	USA Today Mike Clark The sentiments here are thoroughly semper fi, but the result occasionally works at cross-purposes.
50	New York Daily News Jack Mathews Sometimes, movies would work better if you couldn't see them.
38	Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey A casualty of its own clumsy storytelling.
38	Mr. Showbiz Pearce is shot in such distorting closeups that he looks like an overdeveloped athlete who's been getting steroid injections in his cheeks.

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