Rules of Engagement 4K 2000 Ultra HD 2160p

Vietnam, 1968. Marine Lieutenant Terry Childers (Jackson), knowing that Hay Hodge's (Tommy Lee Jones) unit is under enemy fire, kills the radio operator with a shot to the head so that the Vietnamese colonel who was captured with him will realize that he will suffer the same fate if he does not order his forces to withdraw. Hodge's entire unit is killed, but he himself survives. Thirty years later, Colonel Terry Childers and his task force are assigned to evacuate the embassy from Yemen. When he flies two helicopters to the site and infiltrates the embassy, three of his men are killed and a wounded sergeant dies in his arms. The fire comes from snipers from the roof of another building and people from the huge crowd pelting the building with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Seeing that the fire from the crowd is almost point-blank range, Childers gives the order to open fire to kill all enemy firing points and the crowd. As a result, 83 Muslim demonstrators are killed, among them women and children. The National Security Advisor (Greenwood), not wanting a political scandal in the Middle East, worried about his career, destroys the videotape of an outdoor surveillance camera that confirmed that the fire came from the crowd. All the blame for what happened he wants in the eyes of the world to blame on the Marine colonel and even persuades the ambassador (Kingsley), rescued by Childers, to give false testimony. The Colonel is tried by a military tribunal and will be defended by Colonel Hay Hodge, who has become a military lawyer. Thirty years ago in Vietnam Childers saved his life. Despite the complexity of the situation, the lawyer manages to defend his friend's honor. Childers is found not guilty.

User Review
On March 13, 1931, in Hanoi, the capital of French Indochina, at a parade celebrating the centennial of the founding of the French Foreign Legion, an insult was shouted from the crowd in the direction of the soldiers. Legionnaires' commander Major Lambert stopped the ceremonial march, ordered bayonets to be bayoneted, surrounded the crowd, shot six on the spot... and continued the parade.

And what's remarkable is that not a single bastard even mentioned humanity.

But times change, and USMC Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) was much less fortunate. While evacuating the staff of the American embassy in Yemen, he ordered fire on a crowd in a square that was, well, very intemperate. The result was eighty-three civilian carcasses showing no signs of life. The enraged world community was not slow to raise a grandiose storm and, in an attempt to cover up the scandal, the administration decided to organize a show flogging.

This surprised Colonel Childers (although, being an experienced military man, he should have long ago gotten used to the bastard attitude), and he decided to ask for help from his old friend Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a battle buddy and retired colonel of justice. At the trial, they are confronted by a young law major (Guy Pearce) representing the prosecution - devilishly talented, meticulous and literally all-knowing.

The movie is very topical - much of what is shown there still rings “topical” now, more than a decade later. For example, it touches upon such a problem as the Arab “intifada”, or “stone war”. This is when civilians start throwing stones and broken bricks at soldiers from rooftops and windows. A modern soldier cannot open fire in response to stones - it is, as it were, a crime against humanity. And the fact that it can break the head of one, and another, and the tenth - does not count. Or the traditional quibbling over “collateral damage”. Terrorists have always hid behind the backs of civilians - such is their despicable nature. And the only way to wean them from this is to roll them over, not caring who he is covering his cowardly hide with.

The characters' different attitudes to life are also well shown. The ambassador's wife is sincerely grateful to Childers for the rescue - but will not stop her husband from perjury. She can be understood - otherwise her husband will lose his job, the family will be left without money... But the same Hodge does not hesitate, deciding to defend the disgraced colonel in court. He does not care who will pressure him and what will be threatened - he himself can unobtrusively ask the National Security Advisor “Sir, have you ever felt the fist of a Marine on your jaw?”. And it's not that he wears epaulets at all - it's just that he's a man in more ways than just his primary sex characteristics.

William Friedkin deliberately escalates the situation. When Pierce's character, who has never smelled gunpowder, with admirable insolence states what can and cannot be done in “close combat”, as the American military say, you want to yell in the face of the court childersovskogo “Waste the motherfuckers!!!”. And then the word goes to the hero Tommy Lee Jones - and this old man with tired eyes suddenly starts hammering words one after another like steel nails.

This is a movie about the fact that a real officer will go to any lengths not to waste his soldiers. That true male friendship never grows old. It's about how you can't treat your soldiers like that. That someone can experience in sixteen fucking minutes what others will never experience in a lifetime. And those sixteen minutes will be worth more than the whole life of someone who warms his ass in a leather chair in a comfortable office.

- One week?
- Negative. Sixteen minutes, major. Sixteen fucking minutes. That's all I remember.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (75.0 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Info Subtitles

English SDH, Bulgarian, Danish, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Swedish.