Rules of Engagement
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 7, 2000 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
14
Negative:
10
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38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
A casualty of its own clumsy storytelling. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeJay Carr
Strenuously as it tries, and pulse-poundingly successful as the embassy rescue scene is, Rules of Engagement never engages us. Read full review
38
Mr. ShowbizRichard T. Jameson
Pearce is shot in such distorting closeups that he looks like an overdeveloped athlete who's been getting steroid injections in his cheeks. Read full review
35
TNT RoughCutSusannah Breslin
Formulaic and pretty darn plodding.
33
Portland OregonianBarry Johnson
Plays like an episode of "JAG," the naval courtroom TV series. A L-O-N-G episode. Read full review
30
Film.comPeter Brunette
It just doesn't work. Worse, it's downright offensive. Read full review
25
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
A wildly dull, predictable script whose holes seem to be courtesy of random sniper fire. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Spoiled by its simplistic portrait of people from the Mideast as incorrigibly violent and untrustworthy. Read full review
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
By the time the film plummets to its rock bottom, we find ourselves in a flag-waving no-brainer of the first order, and one of the most thoroughly confused morality tales in recent memory. Read full review
10
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
The clichés lap like bay waves, from the salutes to the brotherly brawl to the olive-oil tear streaks semipermanently painted down Jackson's cheeks. Read full review
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