It's a jolting coup de theatre, and one that the movie never Their Chuck Yeager best to elude the missiles, until one clips the wingsĪnd sends the crew into a terrifying drop to the ground.
What follows is a thrilling dogfight, with the F-18 pair doing Killing field, and right away, the Serbs fire heat-seeking missiles at TheĬamera on their F-18 records Serb troops, arms and, worst of all, a Macho - during Christmas Eve, no less - but routine collapses whenīurnett spots Serb activity in what should be a demilitarized zone. It falls to Burner and his pilot buddy Stackhouse (Gabriel He's on a short leash, Reigart orders a simple photo reconnaissance Reminded by supreme NATO Admiral Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida) that
Set-up prepares viewers for the spectacular action sequence at theĢ0-minute-mark that really sets the movie into full motion. Ship and our hero, but nothing in these noodlings or the standard-issue Influence from the Jerry Bruckheimer school of filmmaking is all tooĪpparent from the first cranked-up track-shots-on-speed takes of the big Moore's background in music-videos and commercials and Both, predictably, are in for a wake-up call. Reviews his list of run-ins with MPs, and considers his complaints so When Burnett hands in his request to leave the service, Reigart (Gene Hackman) is his paternal boss practicing tough love. Under everything he does, while his commanding officer, Admiral Reigart Though, and just to drive the point home, rock `n' roll rumbles
Is on hold, since the so-called "Cincinnati Accord" has justīeen inked by warring Bosnian Serbs and Muslims, and no armed maneuversĬan continue while the peace details are worked out on the ground.īurnett must have taken those TV recruitment commercials seriously, Itchiness Burnett feels is the same kind of confused yearning heardĪmong the dusty soldiers of "Three Kings." Actually, the war Is a big kid who likes playing football on the Vinson's deck, andĪt the same time is depicted as a grunt with the Vision Thing - the Veloz and Penn's script has mixed signals from the start - Burnett Burnett's (Owen Wilson) voiced yearnings for genuineīattle already sound quaint in the post-Sept. Masterstroke that will deliver explosive B.O.Īs he cools his heels along with his mates on the USS Carl Vinsonĭuring a peacekeeping mission off the Balkan coast, fighter jet Rushed release from 2002 to the holiday season is a marketing As gray as theīackstory's real politics may be, the conflict on screenĬouldn't be more black-and-white, ultimately reducing a dizzyinglyĬomplex civil war into a visual effects-laden, cat-and-mouse cartoon. Muddled international mess that was the war in Bosnia. The focused purpose defining the current war is actually applied to the The fantasy behind the bloated picįrom tyro helmer John Moore and writers David Veloz and Zak Penn is that The popular mood, especially a mood imbued with a building sense of Proud tradition in this field - couldn't be better timed to fit Mission, the latest war pic from 20th Century Fox - a studio, with a High-octane demonstration of the virtues of a U.S. Have been "Be All That You Can Be." An unembarrassed, The title is "Behind Enemy Lines," but it might as well ReviewedĪt 20th Century Fox Studios, L.A., Nov. Nowell second unitĬamera, Steve Davison casting, Eyde Belasco, Sheila Trezise.
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