I`m Confused At The Lack Of Logic

Rating: 5/10 (24 March 2003)

Round about the same time as this film was produced there was a new international court of law set up as to how wars are conducted which led me to believe that RULES OF ENGAGEMENT would point out the ( Im ) practicalities and ( A)moralities and possible hypocrisy of such an international court but all these important ideas are totally ignored in a bland courtroom drama that has gaping holes of logic .
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First of all if Col Childers is going to be used as a scapegoat then why on earth is he found not guilty , especially when he`s got such a poor attorney like Hodge ? , even more confusing when he`s being prosecuted by a hotshot prosecueter like Maj Briggs . This doesn`t really make sense . Nor is the fact that several Americans were killed in the action . Does that not prove it was self defence ? And as several reviewers have pointed out American forces have done far worse in real life than the scenario seen here . I suppose the screenwriters were told to write a happy ending then the set the rest of the script round that . It doesn`t feel like the script was well thought out
So just to sum up this could have been a really good thought provoking anti-war pro-soldier drama on the nation state Vs international law , but it`s just a dumb court room drama