Behind Enemy Lines Movie Review 2001

Balkan civil war is mere scenery, and soldiers only caricatures, in this cartoonish cat-and-mouse chase movie. Ace Navy navigator Lt. Burnett (Wilson), tired of flying peace missions, yearns for some real action. When a routine reconnaissance operation goes awry--his plane shot down over Serbian territory and his pilot ruthlessly executed--Burnett gets his wish. Crusty Admiral Reigart (Hackman) wants to rescue his flyboy, but a pesky international peace agreement gets in the way. First-time director Moore, best known for Sega promos, takes a video game approach to war. Utterly unconvincing suspense, but action sequences do their duty. Despite a clear connection to the ordeal of real-life Air Force captain Scott O'Grady, this is no true story.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 106 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Military: Navy, Bosnia, Rescue Missions

Screenplay

David Veloz, Zak Penn

Cast

Owen C. Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, Olek Krupa, Vladimir Mashkov, Marko Ogonda

Cinematography

Brendan Galvin

Director

John Moore

Music

Don Davis

Other

Ian Voigt, Paul Martin Smith, Patrick Lumb, George L. Little, Nathan Crawley

Producer

John Davis, Davis Entertainment Company, 20th Century-Fox