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| Behind Enemy Lines [Blu-ray] | ![Behind Enemy Lines [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41txIhzWiNL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Moore
Actors: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim De Almeida, David Keith, Olek Krupa
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (252 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13036
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Running Time: 106 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: FOXBR2239597
UPC: 024543395959
EAN: 0024543395959
ASIN: B000ICLRJ8
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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 Definitely a good war movie! April 11, 2008
I enjoyed this movie quite a lot. It's basically about what the title says--being left behind enemy lines.
I'm sorry, I don't believe in spoilers too much, so I'm quite limited to what I can say about this. But if you like war movies (or just action movies, since technically the plot is supposed to be during a time of peace or at least a truce), you will most likely enjoy this movie.
 Awesome picture quality January 25, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i loved this movie and when it went out in blu-ray i bought it since i didnt have it in dvd...picture quality was great specially the landmines scene and during the ending rescue...
One hell of a good war action movie! November 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Last week, including the weekend, I watched three great war action movies on television, namely:
1) 'Black Hawk Down', starring Josh Hartnett, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana;
2) 'Behind Enemy Lines', starring Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman;
3) 'Tears of the Sun', starring Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Tom Skerritt;
The first movie was based on an actual event that took place in Mogadishu, Somalia on the African continent in October 1993 during the Clinton presidency.
The second movie was apparently a fictional adaptation of an actual event that supposedly took place during the Bosnia-Serbia conflict.
The third movie was more of a fictional account that had the starvation-ravaged Nigeria caught in an ethnic civil war as a background setting.
In the war action movie, 'Behind Enemy Lines', a US Navy navigator, Lt. Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) was cajoled by his commanding officer, Admiral Leslie Reigart (Gene Hackman) to take on one last reconnaisance flight from an aircraft carrier on the Adriatic Sea.
He was assigned to accompany a navy pilot, Lt. Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht), who would fly over the supposedly southern part of Bosnia. The action supposedly took place during the tail-end of the Bosnia-Serbia conflict.
The recon flight deliberately went off course, after Chris had apparently spotted something unusual on the ground. Pictures were captured by the plane's video camera, but he did not realise that there were unseen forces on the ground that did not want the world to see those pictures.
The plane was eventually shot down by a surface-to-air (SAM) missile. However, both the pilot & his navigator parachuted just in time. The extensive evasive actions by the pilot & the plane formed the initial action sequences of the movie - exciting, but somehow unbelievable.
The pilot was captured & executed on the landed spot, while Chris, who had witnessed the gruesome event, managed to escape into the woods.
The rest of the movie traced his own battle of wits as he outsmarted as well as out-manuevred his enemies on the ground to get help from his commanding officer, who unwittingly founded that his intended rescue operation was apparently hamstrung by political wrangling at the top of his chain of command.
There was this funny guy in the sports track suit who played the determined sniper, who was assigned by enemy forces to track down Chris, locate the crash site & retrieve the damaging video pictures.
It was quite fun, actually for a change, to watch Owen Wilson, with his crooked nose, playing a serious & sober character in the movie. I had seen in other movies where he was often seen to be a mischievous, playful, 'trouble maker', like in 'I Spy', 'Shanghai Noon', 'Shanghai Knights', 'Starsky & Hutch', 'Wedding Crashers', just to name a few.
Gene Hackman, one of my favourite actors, seemed to have an understated role, but I simply love his character in the movie. At the risk of his own career, he eventually took personal command & led the successful rescue attempt ("Let's go & get our boy back!"). He was ultimately relinguished of the command of the battle group, & reassigned to a desk job in Washington, but chose to retire from service, in honour of his men.
Sometimes, a man just has to do what he needs to do, even at the risk of his own personal future. To me, this is leadership, taking personal responsibility.
The final segment of the movie exhibited the spectacular rescue attempt of the downed navigator.
Our hero, during the very last few moments of being rescued, ran for cover from the blazing guns of the pursuing enemy forces, halted half-way, back-tracked, made one final attempt to search for, retrieved the video cartridge from the plane's crash site, & then leaped into the air over the cliff hanger & into the receiving arms of a marine, dangling on a tight rope from the rescue helicopter. Wow! that was really cool!
He wanted the world to see the damaging video, so that his pilot friend did not die in vain. That was his greatest defining moment in the movie, which I certainly enjoyed watching.
My end analysis: despite some minor technical flaws in the story, this is still another good war action movie to watch!
To sum up all the three war action movies in the foregoing posts, I want to take this opportunity to share with readers a dedication statement I had learned - & remembered - since my secondary school days. It came from Sir Winston Churchill, the wartime British Prime Minister:
"Never in the field of human conflict, have so many owed so much to so few."
So, dear readers, please go & watch the three foregoing war action movies. You will be delighted.
Good movie in HD October 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this movie because I just love the opening scene where the F18 tryes to get rid off two sam's. In HD is even better. I recommend it very much.
SEARCH AND DESTROY, BUT NOT THIS MOVIE! September 19, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
if you're a war junkie in or around that, then this movie is right for you. war movies are sweet. i guess it's all that intense heat it brings, and the bullets, and the guns, and the running, and the pounding. man they get crazy. and this movie behind enemy lines is up there. this movie never gets boring and it has that drama that draws you in. you feel for this guy going through all this stuff, and you want to help and you just get all into it. that's the thing about movies of war or things like that. some are very deep, while others are just a bit about it, but they all deliver this satisfying thirst for heroism, bravery, and survival. this film is another of those. terrific storyline, the actors worked very well. everyone played their part to the tee, and the end results were very good. owen wilson did a fine job, no doubt. he's acting was so good he was believable. in the navy, as a pilot, on the run, being chased. he had that desperation in his voice, that fear in his eyes. nice job. and as for gene hackman he was the man in charge and even though he portrayed a cold hearted navy officer you could see he cared about this man, and he would do what he could to help him. that is acting. he does it here, and in runaway jury, and enemy of the state just to name a couple. this man is gifted. the movie was good, the actors were great, and any better i doubt it could have been.
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