Behind Enemy Lines
- Original title
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Owen Wilson
- Gene Hackman
- Joaquim de Almeida
- David Keith
- Olek Krupa
- Gabriel Macht
- Geoff Pierson
- Vladimir Mashkov
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- War. Action | Bosnian War
- Movie Groups
- Behind Enemy Lines
- Synopsis
- A gung-ho (yet recently disillusioned) pilot (Owen Wilson) is shot down in war-torn former Yugoslavia, after photographing illegal mass graves. He then spends the rest of the film running away a lot, while his paternal-yet-gruff commanding officer (Gene Hackman) yells at his superiors and yaks into his radio, trying to save the lad. Badly shot and edited, this throwback to '80s jingoistic pap offers few thrills and doesn't even make an attempt at characterization. Even with shoot-outs, jet plane action and cat-and-mouse soldiering, this isn't nearly as much fun as it could have been. Wilson looks lost throughout, and the majority of the film is sorta dull and cartoonish, with an egregiously idiotic climax that wouldn't convince the slowest five year old.
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- Critics' reviews
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"War is hellishly entertaining, especially in Behind Enemy Lines, a 21-gun salute to the commitment and preparedness of the U.S. military"
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"As a director, Moore is like an energetic puppy who's all over you all at once. You admire his energy, and it's awfully hard to get angry at such high spirits, but you can't help but wish he'd calm down just a bit"
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"Behind Enemy Lines will satisfy only those in search of a rousingly, if simplistically, patriotic bloodbath."
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"As intense an immersion in military ambience as a Hollywood movie could hope to provide in just over 90 minutes"
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"A slickly entertaining war movie that's sometimes striking, sometimes silly -- but never, ever boring"
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 78 My Favorite War Movies (71)
- 79 My Top 10 Movies from 2001 (22)
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