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| Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg's recent, triumphant Lone Survivor was in no way an original plot. 12 years before it, John Moore made Behind Enemy Lines! |
QUICK REVIEW:
An American pilot is thoroughly bored as a peace-observer, until one day when he gets shot down over Bosnia during the 90s Bosnian War behind enemy lines and has to fight his way out on foot!
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| Owen Wilson as the survivor pilot in John Moore's Behind Enemy Lines |
First of, debuting Irish director John Moore (A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)) chooses the realistic solutions, and I bought the rest; a dang exciting, albeit a bit CGI-heavy, serving of old-fashioned war action suspense prone to showy cinematography.
Lines is loosely based on a 1995 incident with an American soldier shot down over Bosnia, surviving 6 days there before getting saved by US Marines. He sued the filmmakers, because they hadn't gotten his accept for the film, and he felt he was misrepresented in it, but they settled that out of court.
Critics have called the film jingoistic (meaning that it is excessively biased in its portrayal of one country (America) as extremely superior to others, in this case Eastern European countries) and video-game-like. I didn't think think so, and had no problems with the film showing America as superior to these hoodlum states, which is/was obviously the case in fact.
And sure the film is shallow, but it's no serious war film; Behind Enemy Lines is not terribly deep, but it is fine entertainment. - A fun, exciting, entertaining movie.
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| John Moore's Behind Enemy Lines is about a plane going down, behind enemy lines, and it stars Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman ... what more do you need? |
Watch the awesome trailer for this good movie right here
Budget: 40 mil. $
Box office: 91.7 mil. $
= Minor flop
What do you think of Behind Enemy Lines?
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