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2001 film by John Moore

 

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Behind Enemy LinesDirected byProduced byScreenplay byStory byStarringMusic byCinematographyEdited byProduction
companyDistributed byRelease dateRunning timeCountryLanguageBudgetBox office

Theatrical release poster
John Moore
John Davis
Don Davis
Brendan Galvin
Paul Martin Smith

Davis Entertainment
20th Century Fox
  • November 30, 2001 (2001-11-30)
106 minutes
United States
  • English
  • Serbian
$40 million[1]
$92 million[1]

Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 American war film directed by John Moore in his directorial debut, and starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The film tells the story of Lieutenant Chris Burnett, an American naval flight officer who is shot down over Bosnia and uncovers genocide during the Bosnian War. Meanwhile, his commanding officer is struggling to gain approval to launch a combat search and rescue mission to save Burnett. The plot is loosely based on the 1995 Mrkonjić Grad incident that occurred during the war.[2]

Released on November 30, 2001, Behind Enemy Lines received generally negative reviews from critics. However, it was a considerable box office success, taking in nearly $92 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. The film was followed by three direct-to-video sequels, Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia, and SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines, with the third film being co-produced by WWE Studios. None of these sequels feature the cast and crew of the original.

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Plot[edit]

The film opens with a group of Bosnian Serb Army soldiers burying Bosnian Muslim civilians in mass graves that they massacred during the Bosnian War. During the Bosnian War, United States Navy flight officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett and pilot Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse, who are stationed on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Adriatic Sea, are assigned an aerial reconnaissance mission by their commanding officer, Admiral Reigart. The mission goes smoothly until they spot suspicious activity in the demilitarized zone where NATO aircraft and the warring factions are prohibited from engaging in military activity. Burnett persuades Stackhouse to fly their F/A-18F Super Hornet off-course to get a close look and photograph the target. They are unaware that they photographed mass graves, and Serb paramilitaries see the jet. The local Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander, General Miroslav Lokar, is conducting a secret genocidal campaign against the local Bosniak population. Not wanting the mass graves to be discovered, Lokar orders the jet be shot down.

Despite trying to outmaneuver the missiles fired at them, their jet is hit and both men are forced to eject. Shortly after touching ground, a Serb patrol finds an injured Stackhouse and interrogate him. Stackhouse is then executed by Sasha, one of Lokar's right-hand men. Burnett, who was observing the Serbs' interrogation of Stackhouse from a hill, flees the area, but exposes his location. Wanting Burnett dead as well, Lokar orders both his deputy, Colonel Bazda, and Sasha to find him. After Burnett contacts Reigart for help, he orders Burnett to move to a certain location in order to be extracted. However, Reigart is forced to stand down after Admiral Piquet, the commander of NATO naval forces in the region, warns him that rescuing Burnett in the demilitarized zone risks derailing the peace process. When Burnett reaches the extraction point, Reigart informs him that he must move to another location miles outside of the demilitarized zone in order to be rescued.

Immediately after being informed, Burnett sees a Serb patrol, led by Bazda, looking for him. Running from them, he falls into the mass grave that he and Stackhouse had photographed and hides under a dead body. When the patrol is out of sight, he continues to run. On his way to the new extraction point, Burnett encounters a group of Bosniak guerrillas in a pickup truck who offer him a ride. The guerrillas inform Burnett that they are heading to Hač, which is supposedly a safe haven but turns out to be a war zone. During the battle, Serb troops believe that they have found Burnett's body, but Sasha realizes that Burnett had switched uniforms with a dead Serb guerrilla and escaped Hač.

The Serbs turn the situation to their advantage, presenting the corpse wearing Burnett's uniform to the media, and saying he was killed by guerrillas. The ruse works and a mission to rescue Burnett is aborted. However, Burnett notices an angel statue near where his ejection seat landed. He returns to his seat and activates the rescue beacon. Though the carrier group notices his signal and positively identifies him, Burnett has also alerted the Serbs to his location.

Knowing he risks being relieved of command, Reigart prepares a task force to rescue Burnett in open defiance of Piquet's orders. Meanwhile, Bazda and Sasha are ordered by Lokar to find Burnett and kill him, but on their way, Bazda steps on a landmine and Sasha abandons him to his fate. The mine eventually explodes, alerting Burnett that someone is following him. After Sasha finds the ejection seat, Burnett ambushes him and the two men engage in hand-to-hand combat until Burnett fatally stabs Sasha. Immediately thereafter, Lokar arrives with armored vehicles and infantry who open fire on Burnett. Reigart's task force arrives and holds off Lokar's forces. After retrieving the hard drive containing the photos of the mass graves, Burnett is successfully rescued.

The footage Burnett retrieved leads to the arrest and conviction of Lokar for war crimes including genocide, while Reigart's actions result in him being relieved of command and his eventual retirement. Burnett continues his career in the Navy.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

The film was shot on location in Slovakia, plus Koliba Studios, Bratislava, Slovakia.[citation needed]

The USS Carl Vinson was the aircraft carrier featured in the film. Exterior naval footage was filmed on board the carrier. Interiors were filmed on the USS Constellation (CV-64), and on a film set.[3] The release date originally January 18, 2002, but this was moved to November 30, 2001.[4]

Historical inspiration[edit]

See also: Scott O'Grady § In popular culture

The film bears some resemblance to the experiences of former U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, who was shot down over Bosnia on June 2, 1995. He managed to survive for six days before being rescued by U.S. Marines. O'Grady, who later became a children's author and motivational speaker, filed suit against both the producers of Behind Enemy Lines as well as Behind Enemy Lines: The Scott O’Grady Story, a 1998 documentary that Discovery Channel aired on his experience, for defamation of character, accusing the film's producers of invasion of privacy through the misappropriation of his name, likeness and identity, false representation and false advertising, and contending that those involved in both works produced them without his permission, and that the commercial value of his name was damaged by them. O'Grady's complaint indicated that among other things, he was troubled by the disobedience and profanity exhibited by the feature film's main character. O'Grady also accused Fox of using the documentary to promote the feature film and making a film about his ordeal without his permission. The film's characters and events differ from O'Grady's experience; he never entered populated areas, nor did he interact with civilians, and did not engage in direct combat with enemy soldiers. Also, O'Grady never flew an F/A-18F but rather an F-16 Fighting Falcon.[2][5] The case was settled out of court.[6]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

The film made $18.7 million in its opening week in the U.S., landing at the #2 spot and was held off the top spot by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Behind Enemy Lines eventually grossed $92 million worldwide, of which $59 million was from North America. The budget was estimated to be $40 million.[1]

Critical response[edit]

Behind Enemy Lines received generally negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 33% based on reviews from 130 critics, with a weighted average of 4.8/10 and the site's consensus stating "The plot for Behind Enemy Lines is more jingoistic than credible, and the overload of flashy visual tricks makes the action sequences resemble a video game."[7] Metacritic has assigned the film an average score of 49 out of 100 based on 29 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews."[8]

Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars out of four, likening it to a comedy: "Its hero is so reckless and its villains so incompetent that it's a showdown between a man begging to be shot, and an enemy that can't hit the side of a Bosnian barn."[9]

Sequels[edit]

Behind Enemy Lines was followed by three direct-to-video sequels, none of which feature the cast and crew of the original, nor follow its plot. Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil was released in 2006, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia was released in 2009 (this film was co-produced by WWE Studios) and SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines was released in 2014.

2017 television pilot[edit]

The Fox network ordered a pilot episode of a series loosely based on the film in February 2017 for consideration as part of the network's 2017-18 television season. It was ultimately canceled.[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Behind Enemy Lines". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Susman, Gary (August 20, 2002). "Plane Truth: Downed airman sues over "Behind Enemy Lines"". Entertainment Weekly. New York City: Meredith Corporation. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
  3. ^ Sutherland, Scott (November 27, 2001). ""Behind Enemy Lines" Showcases NAS North Island". FindArticles.com. US Navy Press Releases. Archived from the original on October 5, 2009. Retrieved August 22, 2009.
  4. ^ "Fox to Release "Behind Enemy Lines" Nov. 30". Business Wire. Omaha, Nebraska: Berkshire Hathaway. November 2, 2001. Archived from the original on November 18, 2001. Retrieved June 26, 2019 – via Yahoo.com.
  5. ^ "Pilot sues over Bosnian escape film". BBC News. London, England: BBC. August 20, 2002. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  6. ^ Hall, Sarah (January 21, 2004). "Behind Enemy Lines Suit Settled". E! Online. New York City: E!. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  7. ^ "Behind Enemy Lines (2001)". Rotten Tomatoes. San Francisco, California: Fandango Media. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  8. ^ "Behind Enemy Lines". Metacritic. San Francisco, California: Fandango Media. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
  9. ^ Ebert, Roger (November 30, 2001). "Behind Enemy Lines Movie Review (2001)". Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago, Illinois: Sun-Times Media Group. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  10. ^ Petski, Denise; Petski, Denise (February 13, 2017). "'Behind Enemy Lines': B.J. Britt Cast As A Lead In Fox Drama Pilot".

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