... Bruce Greenwood is appropriately smarmy (apparently carrying over much of his smarm from "Double Jeopardy") ...
Shay Casey imdb.com 4/16/00

The key to the case is whether or not the protestors were indeed firing weapons, but William Sokal, the U.S. national security advisor (played with slick, polished venom by Bruce Greenwood) doesn't care.
James Kendrick, The Film Desk 4/16/00

... and it's nice to see Bruce Greenwood working, even in a stock bad guy role like this.
Rob Vaux, Flipside Movie Emporium 4/16/00

As a nefarious NSA, Greenwood is even better than his villainous turn in DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
Movie Bodega Film Reviews 4/9/00

Bruce Greenwood's villainy is overdone, but the fault is with the filmmaker.
Jonathan Richards imdb 4/16/00

The villain, played by Canadian Bruce Greenwood, is U.S. National Secuirity Advisor William Sokal. A cowardly weasel determined to find a scapegoat at any cost, Sokal destroys evidence of the rioters opening fire that would clear Childers' name. Like virtually everything in the film, the role seems cluttered and unfinished, although Greenwood plays Sokal with enough panache for forgiveness.
Jamey Hughton, Movie Views 4/9/00

Desperate to avert an international dustup, the national security adviser (Bruce Greenwood), with his Starbucks-drinker's sleek haircut, wants the military's prosecuting attorney (Guy Pearce) to prove he did.
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly 4/14/00

When we see the actor who's playing this duplicitous national security adviser, it becomes even more obvious how loaded the film's setup is. Try a smirkishly cocksure Bruce Greenwood - previously Ashley Judd's slug of a husband in Double Jeopardy.
Mike Clark, USA Today 4/8/00

As the duplicitous National Security Adviser, Bruce Greenwood exudes the kind of integrity one comes to expect from the Clinton administration.
Duane Byrge, Showbiz Data 4/8/00

... poor ol' Bruce "call me soon, Atom...please" Greenwood.
Mike D'Angelo panix.com 4/00

The initially inept Hodges finds himself up against a noncombat hot-shot major (Guy Pearce, hiding his Aussie accent behind a New York one), and heavy hitters from the administration (represented by Bruce Greenwood as the national security adviser); key evidence of exoneration is destroyed.........Instead of stock villains like napalm sniffers and kill-crazed snipers, its stock villain s are parodies of liberal excess: The Greenwood character, slick and ruthless, charming and manipulative, could be a stand-in for a certain president.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post 4/7/00

The ambiguities of the incident are such that he'd stand a chance of acquittal if a State Department official, played by Bruce Greenwood (who was the dastardly husband in "Double Jeopardy"), hadn't destroyed evidence. Better the fault lie with an individual, he reasons, than with U.S. policy.
JS Online 4/7/00

William Sokal, the National Security Adviser, is going to be vilified. He's played archly by Bruce Greenwood and the problem is that Yemen is a moderate nation, and if Childers doesn't take the fall, there will be diplomatic hell to pay.
Jay Stone, Southam Newspapers; Ottawa Citizen 4/7/00

Bruce Greenwood is too obviously a smoothie as a vacillating security adviser.
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News 4/7/00

Phillip Baker Hall, Blair Underwood, Anne Archer, Gordon Clapp, Bruce Greenwood, (the everchanging) Nicky Katt, Roma Maffia, and the others here all do fine jobs considering what they are given to work with.
Filethirteen.com 4/6/00

Meanwhile, Canadian character actor Bruce Greenwood (a veteran of Atom Egoyan films, who currently can be seen as Leelee Sobieski's father in Here on Earth) is almost too good as the bad guy. Had his performance been less flamboyant, the weakness of the conclusion might not have mattered as much.
James Berardinelli, Colossus.net 4/4/00

Snapping into action, the transparently evil National Security Adviser, William Sokal (Bruce Greenwood), demands that the blame for the slaughter be placed squarely upon Col. Childers for giving illegal orders to "murder'' unarmed people, so as to take responsibility off the United States in general.
Variety 4/2/00

"Rules of Engagement" at first seems to be shaping up as a political conspiracy tale, since a good deal of time is initially given over to the machinations of slimy NSA advisor Bill Sokal (Bruce Greenwood), who suppresses exculpatory evidence in order to insure good U.S.-Arab relations.
Dr. Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion 4/1/00