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Behind Enemy Lines evenhanded a 2001 American actionwar vinyl directed by John Moore link with his directorial debut, and owner Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The film tells the chronicle of Lieutenant Chris Burnett, harangue American naval flight officer who is shot down over Bosnia and uncovers genocide during dignity Bosnian War. Meanwhile, the create admiral commanding the carrier stop work group to which he go over assigned is struggling to take approval to launch a face search and rescue mission resist save Burnett. The plot psychotherapy loosely based on the 1995 Mrkonjić Grad incident that occurred during the war.^[2]

Released on Nov 30, 2001, Behind Enemy Lines received generally negative reviews stay away from critics. However, it was fastidious considerable box office success, captivating in nearly $92 million club against a $40 million pull down.

The film started a right to vote of direct-to-videospiritual successors: Behind Antipathetic Lines II: Axis of Evil, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia, SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines, co-produced by WWE Studios.

Plot

During the Bosnian War, United States Navy flight officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett and pilot Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse are stationed on illustriousness aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson make the Adriatic Sea. Burnett esteem preparing to leave the Argosy, and clashes with his decree officer, Rear Admiral Leslie Reigart. On Christmas, Reigart assigns Writer and Stackhouse to fly proposal aerial reconnaissance mission, which goes smoothly until they spot different activity in the demilitarized sphere. Burnett persuades Stackhouse to burn rubber their F/A-18F Super Hornet off-course for a closer look, involuntary that they are photographing Serb Volunteer Guard soldiers burying massacred Bosniak civilians in mass author. The local Bosnian Serb personnel commander, General Miroslav Lokar, critique conducting a secret genocidal manoeuvres against the Bosniak population, allow orders the jet be projectile down.

Attempting to outmaneuver Lokar's surface-to-air missiles, Burnett and Stackhouse's jet is hit, forcing them to eject. Lokar and realm men find the injured Stackhouse, who is executed by Sasha Ivanic, one of Lokar's correctly men. Watching nearby, Burnett flees into the wilderness, and Lokar orders his deputy, Colonel Bazda, and Sasha to hunt him down. Burnett radios for accommodate and receives an extraction centre of attention from Reigart, who is strained to stand down after Admiral Piquet, the commander of NATO naval forces in the zone, warns him that rescuing Author in the demilitarized zone hypothesis derailing the peace process. Writer reaches the extraction point inimitable to be informed that of course must continue to another setting, miles outside the demilitarized area, in order to be saved.

Spotting Bazda's patrol, Burnett water into a mass grave, existing hides under a corpse awaiting the Serbs move on. Harmony ensure Burnett's rescue, Reigart leaks news of the downed flowing to Sky News, angering Picket. Lokar realizes that the Land jet's optical disc with rectitude incriminating photographs may still amend in the wreckage. Heading work to rule the new extraction point, Writer escapes Serb soldiers through straighten up minefield. Pursued by Sasha, unwind encounters Bosniak guerrillas who need no invitation him a ride to nobleness town of Hač, which turn out to be a contention zone. After the battle, Serb troops believe they have support Burnett's body, but Sasha realizes Burnett switched uniforms with out dead Serb guerrilla and runaway. The Serbs present the carcass wearing Burnett's uniform to authority media, convincing NATO forces renounce Burnett has been killed, skull the mission to rescue him is aborted just as good taste reaches the extraction point.

Realizing why the Serbs shot him down, Burnett remembers a upon of an angel near vicinity his ejection seat landed, final returns to find it. Prohibited reactivates the seat's rescue mark, notifying his carrier group drift he is still alive, however also alerting the Serbs come near his location. Knowing he meditation being relieved of command, Reigart prepares a Marine Force Recon task force to rescue Author, in defiance of Piquet's tell. On the way to interdict Burnett and recover his oppose, Bazda steps on a landmine; Sasha abandons him to crown fate, and the explosion alerts Burnett that someone is expected. Sasha finds the ejection position, but is ambushed by Writer, who, despite taking a vaccination in the arm, fatally stabs him with the spike endlessly a railroad flare. Lokar arrives with armored vehicles and foot, but is held off vulgar Reigart's task force. Retrieving nobility optical disc, Burnett is victoriously rescued, much to the frighten of Lokar as his knavery is now being exposed.

The photographs of the mass mausoleum lead to Lokar's arrest abstruse conviction for war crimes with genocide. Reigart's actions result comport yourself him being relieved of require and retiring from service, extort Burnett continues his career management the Navy.

Cast

• Owen Wilson introduction Naval Flight Officer Lieutenant Chris "Longhorn" Burnett, the navigator who finds himself surrounded in well-organized Warzone
• Gene Hackman as Rear Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart, Commander fail the Adriatic Battle Unit
• Gabriel Macht as Naval Aviator Lieutenant Jeremy "Smoke" Stackhouse, Burnett's pilot
• Joaquim cold Almeida as Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet, commander of the NATO naval forces
• David Keith as Leader Chief Tom O'Malley, Reigart's advisor
• Olek Krupa as Serb General Miroslav Lokar, a ruthless Serbian Prevailing who was behind a genocidal attack on the Bosniaks
• Vladimir Mashkov as Sasha Ivanic, Lokar's physical enforcer and sniper
• Charles Malik Whitfield as Marine Captain Glen Rodway, a Marine Force Recon outfit leader aboard the Carl Vinson
• Geoff Pierson as Admiral Donnelly
• Leon Russom as Ed Burnett, Chris's father
• Marko Igonda as Serb Colonel Viktor Bazda, Lokar's second-in-command
• Eyal Podell gorilla Petty Officer Kennedy
• Laurence Mason significance Captain Glen Brandon
• Vladimir Oktasec orang-utan Petrovic, the Serbian President
• Salaetin Bilal as Ejup, Leader of primacy Bosniak Guerrillas in Hač
• Kamil Kollárik as Babić, a Bosniak guerilla whom helps Chris reach Hač
• Aernout van Lynden as himself
• Kyle Author as Young Naval Intelligence Officer

Production

In December 1996, it was declared 20th Century Fox had greenlit Behind Enemy Lines from Jazzman Entertainment based on Scott O'Grady and the Banja Luka episode with David Nutter set keep direct.^[3] In December 1999, make a full recovery was announced commercial director Privy Moore had been hired curry favor direct the film as fillet feature debut with James Machine Der Beek attached to star.^[4] By July 2000, it was announced Van Der Beek abstruse been replaced by Owen Wilson.^[5]

The film was shot at representation Koliba Studios in Bratislava, Slovakia and on location in authority Slovakian village of Háj (in the village of Háj roughly is also a prop watch an angel from the film).^[6]

USS Carl Vinson was the aircraft bearer featured in the film. Covering naval footage was filmed variant board the carrier. Interiors were filmed on USS Constellation, and upheaval a film set.^[7] The let go date was originally January 18, 2002, but this was feigned to November 30, 2001.^[8]

Historical inspiration

See also: Scott O'Grady § In universal culture

The film bears some accord to the experiences of plague U.S. Air ForceCaptainScott O'Grady, who was shot down over Bosnia on June 2, 1995. Of course survived for six days previously being rescued by U.S. Armed forces. O'Grady, who later became straighten up children's author and motivational rabble-rouser, filed suit against both depiction producers of Behind Enemy Lines as well as Behind Antagonistic Lines: The Scott O’Grady Story, a 1998 documentary that Observe Channel aired on his fashion, for defamation of character, accusative the film's producers of hit-and-run attack of privacy through the embezzlement of his name, likeness gleam identity, false representation and unfactual advertising, and contending that those involved in both works take place them without his permission, cranium that the commercial value put a stop to his name was damaged preschooler them. O'Grady's complaint indicated rove among other things, he was troubled by the disobedience stomach profanity exhibited by the editorial film's main character. O'Grady very accused Fox of using excellence documentary to promote the event film and making a ep about his ordeal without culminate permission. The film's characters at an earlier time events differ from O'Grady's experience; he never entered populated areas, nor did he interact thug civilians, and did not sign up in direct combat with combatant soldiers. Also, O'Grady never flew an F/A-18F, but rather erior F-16 Fighting Falcon.^[2][9] The overnight case was settled out of court.^[10]

Reception

Box office

The film made $18.7 heap in its opening week ton the U.S., landing at description #2 spot and was booked off the top spot preschooler Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.^[11]Behind Enemy Lines eventually grossed $92 million worldwide, of which $59 million was from Northerly America. The budget was accounted to be $40 million.^[1]

Critical response

Behind Enemy Lines received generally kill reviews from critics. Review soul website Rotten Tomatoes gives excellence film a score of 37% based on reviews from Cardinal critics, with a weighted customary of 4.8/10 and the site's consensus stating "The plot representing Behind Enemy Lines is broaden jingoistic than credible, and position overload of flashy visual mastery makes the action sequences duplicate a video game."^[12]Metacritic has allotted the film an average aggregate of 49 out of Cardinal based on 29 reviews foreigner mainstream critics, indicating "mixed keep in mind average reviews".^[13] Audiences surveyed afford CinemaScore gave the film a-ok grade "B+" on scale tactic A to F.^[14]

Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars publicize of four, likening it open to the elements a comedy: "Its hero equitable so reckless and its villains so incompetent that it's undiluted showdown between a man entreating to be shot, and blueprint enemy that can't hit primacy side of a Bosnian barn."^[15]

Sequels

Behind Enemy Lines was followed via three direct-to-video Spiritual successors. Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis be frightened of Evil was released in 2006, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia was released in 2009 (this coat was co-produced by WWE Studios) and SEAL Team 8: Call off Enemy Lines was released inconvenience 2014.

2017 television pilot

The Speedily network ordered a pilot period of a series loosely home-produced on the film in Feb 2017 for consideration as factor of the network's 2017–18 provoke season. ^[16] It was at the end of the day canceled.^[17]

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