Films often try to avoid smearing entire categories of people by including one or two warm-hearted characters on the other side. Rules of Engagement makes no such concessions. An appealing little girl who struggles about on crutches is later seen with a gun. The film is not an indictment of any government, culture or people. But Yemen's ambassador in Washington, Abdulwahab Alhajjri, says audiences will not realise the story is fictional.
Nobody stays in the cinema for that.
US air force pilot is shot down by radical Middle Eastern state. His son and a mate borrow two planes to get dad back and zap the Arabs. Middle East terrorists detonate bombs in New York.