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Summary: excitement , excitement , excitement
Review: this was a way cool movie. even for teenagers like myself. its about a guy who is about to quit the navy due to lack of excitement but gene hackman hires him on a mission into bosnia his plane gets shot down and his partner is killed. this is very exciting and action packed.
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Summary: HA HA HA
Review: This movie is the worst and I mean the WORST movie I have ever seen! I don't know what Hackman was thinking but I gotta tell you he wasn't when he agreed to make this flop. Here's a clue for you, if a movie comes out on DVD a month after it was in the theaters it's a BAD movie. I can't find 1 good thing about this movie, not the actors (By the way the lead Owen Wilson will not get many scrips after this movie, I hope). Not the director (John Moore), After a successful career in TV commercials, were he should have stayed. This is his movie debut by the way and I hope it's his last. I just can't say enough bad things about this movie. If you waste the [item price] on this you will be saying the same things. This movie is so dumb it's laughable. My best laugh came when he (Wilson) has to use a satellite radio but has to climb on top of a mountain to get better reception. LOL and all these 50 or more guys chasing him that were 100 yards behind him are nowhere in sight after he gets up there. LOL. this is just plan bad. DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY. And just because I make really good movies dosen't mean I won't say when one is good that I didn't make.
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Summary: much better than expected
Review: i expected just another boring action flick instead i got much more.it really made me think about the important things in life and what freindship really means. owen wilson gives another great performance. although not as good as in zoolander. gene hackman is great as usual. a plot with twists and turns like none other. great dvd extras. defenetly the best and most emotional action movie i have ever seen!! after watching it i was a better person. buy it
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Summary: Lots and lots of..........Running
Review: Owen Wilson must have trained for a marathon prior to making this movie because that's all he did. Yes there is a lot of action but it's mostly him....running.
I was expecting to see him shoot it out and do some type of Rambo'ing action with a little comedy mixed in, but unfortunately that didn't happen.
The movie is a definite rental, but in the end it's rather disappointing.
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Summary: "Hollywood Special"
Review: What Hollywood does best-a big, rollicking ride that works if you don't look too much deeper than the surface. Some interesting cinematography (with an obvious influence from _Saving Private Ryan_, esp. apparent when Serbians unload on Burnett/Owen Wilson after he sees them shoot his pilot & in some of more extreme violence; check out extra scenes for more of that, since was toned down a bit to achieve PG-13 rating) and excellent special effects (to whit, SAM chase scene). Wilson shows some breadth here by playing an uncharacteristic (up to this point) role of action hero: although his portrayal has an everyman quality that separates it from the typical straight testosterone variety (which is a GOOD thing!). DVD's extras don't add much except a great picture (extra scenes & commentary pretty standard, & dull, fare). B+
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Summary: Great idea, but where is the acting?
Review: This film could have been an excellent film, if it would had relied on more "acting" and factual realism for the main character. Although it was filmed in Slovakia and NOT in the Balkans, it does convey the barbarism of the Balkan war. The DVD contains deleted explicit scenes, which should had been left in the film and not cut, and tacked on in the extras section, because the additional footage, shows more realism of the evil situation and the atrocities done by the Serbs. The biggest drawback is the believability factor of the main character: his clean shaven look, and the lack of portrayal of someone who is truly trying to survive against all odds. The special affects are very good and the use of actual Soviet equipment (borrowed from the Slovak army I suppose) of the type supplied to the Serbian army gives the film additional credibility to the location, but they do not compensate enough, as the utilization of the main character undermines the film. The ending is somewhat comical and very unrealistic, and that also impairs the film, which is too bad as the US Navy cooperated in the making of this film. Over all it is nothing more than a modern day "patriotic" fiction, when it could have been a very realistic portrayal of similar events with real merit.
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Summary: stupid, stupid, stupid!
Review: My boyfriend (former military) rented this for us last weekend and we spent the entire movie making fun of it. The dialogue is terrible, the plot makes very little sense in places, and is hard to follow in others (very jumpy). There are characters that come in and out of the movie for no apparent reason. The NATO forces & main character make grevious errors & the Serbians are apparently the worst shots in the world. The only small value to this movie is reminding the American audience that a conflict continues in the Balkans (something easy to forget based on our incredibly biased national news coverage). However, if anyone were to use this movie as their only source of information on this particular conflict, they'd come away misinformed.
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Summary: Bat 21 Meets Saving Pravite Ryan
Review: In my past reviews here on Amazom.com I said great things about actors such as deniro, picino, reeves, walken,...but for got to mention Gene Hackman, I must be [dumb]! He is another hollywood legend and to mark another notch in this belt with this movie! If you haven't see this one get ready for a ride! Of cource there some holes, but what movie is totally perfect, very few. Watch for the football section in the water and listen for "Wilson!" (Cast Away) If want action from begining to end with a good story and message about living here in the greatest country on the planet, than buy this one to add to your collection!!
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Summary: Burnt Cake
Review: This movie has the ingrediants with a good star cast ,great special effects an super scrip but fails to deliver at the end of it all.Gene Hackman plays the role(model) he loves to do best an a promising Owens lives upto expectations but.........still a burnt cake.
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Summary: Shoddy script downs war movie
Review: During the opening credits of 'Behind Enemy Lines", I felt like I was watching a super slick recruitment ad for the United States Navy - the kind that seems to say that war used to be hell, but now it's fun. It turns out that first time director John Moore is an award-winning TV commercial director. His arsenal of flash filmy techniques is impressive, but it's not enough to save the movie from its banal, cartoon-like script. Burnett [Owen Wilson] is among about a thousand pilots stuck on an aircraft carrier not far from the war front. Bored and frustrated by a conflict he doesn't understand, he decides to turn in his resignation. His superior officer, Admiral Reigert [Gene Hackman], is miffed by Burnett's decision and decides to pay him back by sending him on a routine mission on Christmas Day. Flying over a demilitarized zone, Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see. In retaliation, Bosnian forces shoot the plane down. Reigert mounts a rescue mission, which is hampered by NATO commanders, who are negotiating a withdrawal from the war. Burnett is left on his own to escape, all the while being pursued by a vicious Bosnian sniper. The hero goes from one bad situation to another. He's often saved only because this is one of those movies in which a hundred bad guys couldn't collectively hit the side of a barn door. The movie really does play like video game. Every time Burnett escapes a situation, he simply moves on the next game level. Consequently, there's never any genuine emotion, just a series of adrenaline rushes. Wilson tries hard, but he can't overcome the fact that his character is so shallow, he might as well be the roadrunner from the famous old cartoons. Ironically, Wilson is himself an award-winning scriptwriter. Hackman has little to do except look gruff but fatherly and speak in old Hollywood cliches that are supposed to sound meaningful. "Behind Enemy Lines" does succeed in the action department. The sequence where the jet is shot down is spectacular. A great deal of attention is paid to details in these scenes. Too bad the filmmakers forgot to pay attention to the script. [Note: In defense of the director, the studio allegedly forced him to edit his original "R" rated cut down to a "PG-13" version. It would be interesting to see if more than just some violent images wound up on the cutting room floor.]
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