Behind Enemy Lines
2001  PG-13  ACTION  1h 46min
CAST— Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith, Olek Krupa, Vladimir Mashkov
MUSIC— Ryan Adams, Don Davis  DIRECTOR— John Moore

     In Behind Enemy Lines, Owen Wilson plays a cocky Naval navigator who gets shot down— you guessed it— behind enemy lines in Bosnia. He was on a normal patrol/test run for a new recon camera. He steered his pilot in the wrong direction at the wrong time (read as: he saw something he wasn’t supposed to), they were shot down by SAMs, his pilot was killed by the bad guys, they start hunting for him, and his struggle for survival becomes paramount. Meanwhile, his commanding officer, played by Gene Hackman, tries to cut through the bureaucratic red tape of the peace treaty between the two countries so that he can bring his soldier back home. With lots of action and suspense, this one doesn’t disappoint, but it can be gritty at times and it does deal with war crimes such as genocide, so heed the PG-13 rating.
OUR RATING— ** ½
FOLLOWED BY— Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (2006), Behind Enemy Lines: Columbia (2009), SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)