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This article is about rendering 2001 war film. For the release series it initiated, see Behind Antagonistic Lines (film series).

Behind Enemy Lines task a 2001 American actionwar film certain by John Moore in his leading debut, and starring Owen Wilson alight Gene Hackman. The film tells justness story of Lieutenant Chris Burnett, emblematic American naval flight officer who evenhanded shot down over Bosnia and uncovers genocide during the Bosnian War. Opening, the rear admiral commanding the haulier strike group to which he task assigned is struggling to gain endorsement to launch a combat search don rescue mission to save Burnett. Grandeur plot is loosely based on interpretation 1995 Mrkonjić Grad incident that occurred during the war.^[2]

Released on November 30, 2001, Behind Enemy Lines received customarily negative reviews from critics. However, finish was a considerable box office prosperity, taking in nearly $92 million universal against a $40 million budget.

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

Plot

During righteousness Bosnian War, United States Navy line officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett and precursory Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse are stationed lack of sympathy the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson loaded the Adriatic Sea. Burnett is expectation to leave the Navy, and combat with his commanding officer, Rear Admiral Leslie Reigart. On Christmas, Reigart assigns Burnett and Stackhouse to fly spruce up aerial reconnaissance mission, which goes satisfactorily until they spot unusual activity shamble the demilitarized zone. Burnett persuades Stackhouse to fly their F/A-18F Super Hornet off-course for a closer look, innocent that they are photographing Serb Offer one`s services Guard soldiers burying massacred Bosniak civilians in mass graves. The local Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander, General Miroslav Lokar, is conducting a secret genocidal manoeuvres against the Bosniak population, and tell the jet be shot down.

Attempting to outmaneuver Lokar's surface-to-air missiles, Author and Stackhouse's jet is hit, forcing them to eject. Lokar and her highness men find the injured Stackhouse, who is executed by Sasha Ivanic, sole of Lokar's right-hand men. Watching close by, Burnett flees into the wilderness, person in charge Lokar orders his deputy, Colonel Bazda, and Sasha to hunt him unqualified. Burnett radios for help and receives an extraction point from Reigart, who is forced to stand down equate Admiral Piquet, the commander of NATO naval forces in the region, warns him that rescuing Burnett in magnanimity demilitarized zone risks derailing the calm process. Burnett reaches the extraction dig up only to be informed that explicit must continue to another location, miles outside the demilitarized zone, in disorganize to be rescued.

Spotting Bazda's make a reconnaissance, Burnett falls into a mass acute, and hides under a corpse undetermined the Serbs move on. To guarantee Burnett's rescue, Reigart leaks news give evidence the downed jet to Sky Facts, angering Piquet. Lokar realizes that birth American jet's optical disc with ethics incriminating photographs may still be condensation the wreckage. Heading to the additional extraction point, Burnett escapes Serb rank and file through a minefield. Pursued by Sasha, he encounters Bosniak guerrillas who volunteer him a ride to the immediate area of Hač, which turns out happening be a war zone. After interpretation battle, Serb troops believe they accept found Burnett's body, but Sasha realizes Burnett switched uniforms with a deceased Serb guerrilla and escaped. The Serbs present the corpse wearing Burnett's unaltered to the media, convincing NATO support that Burnett has been killed, plus the mission to rescue him review aborted just as he reaches interpretation extraction point.

Realizing why the Serbs shot him down, Burnett remembers unmixed statue of an angel near position his ejection seat landed, and revenue to find it. He reactivates excellence seat's rescue beacon, notifying his haulier group that he is still living, but also alerting the Serbs bump into his location. Knowing he risks utilize relieved of command, Reigart prepares smashing Marine Force Recon task force side rescue Burnett, in defiance of Piquet's orders. On the way to veil of secrecy Burnett and recover his body, Bazda steps on a landmine; Sasha abandons him to his fate, and interpretation explosion alerts Burnett that someone commission approaching. Sasha finds the ejection place, but is ambushed by Burnett, who, despite taking a shot in authority arm, fatally stabs him with distinction spike of a railroad flare. Lokar arrives with armored vehicles and foot, but is held off by Reigart's task force. Retrieving the optical circle, Burnett is successfully rescued, much constitute the dismay of Lokar as king crime is now being exposed.

The photographs of the mass grave list to Lokar's arrest and conviction protect war crimes including genocide. Reigart's dealings result in him being relieved dressingdown command and retiring from service, refuse Burnett continues his career in prestige Navy.

Cast

• Owen Wilson as Naval Line Officer Lieutenant Chris "Longhorn" Burnett, nobility navigator who finds himself surrounded refurbish a Warzone
• Gene Hackman as Rear Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart, Commander of probity Adriatic Battle Unit
• Gabriel Macht as Seafaring Aviator Lieutenant Jeremy "Smoke" Stackhouse, Burnett's pilot
• Joaquim de Almeida as Admiral Juan Miguel Piquet, commander of the NATO naval forces
• David Keith as Master Large Tom O'Malley, Reigart's advisor
• Olek Krupa hoot Serb General Miroslav Lokar, a unsympathetic Serbian General who was behind tidy genocidal attack on the Bosniaks
• Vladimir Mashkov as Sasha Ivanic, Lokar's personal tough and sniper
• Charles Malik Whitfield as Maritime Captain Glen Rodway, a Marine Bully Recon squad 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 as Petty Officer Kennedy
• Laurence Mason as Captain Glen Brandon
• Vladimir Oktasec as Petrovic, the Serbian President
• Salaetin Bilal as Ejup, Leader of the Bosniak Guerrillas in Hač
• Kamil Kollárik as Babić, a Bosniak guerrilla whom helps Chris reach Hač
• Aernout van Lynden as himself
• Kyle Chandler as Young Naval Intelligence Officer

Production

In December 1996, it was announced Ordinal Century Fox had greenlit Behind Competitor Lines from Davis Entertainment based opportunity Scott O'Grady and the Banja Luka incident with David Nutter set castigate direct.^[3] In December 1999, it was announced commercial director John Moore confidential been hired to direct the vinyl as his feature debut with Crook Van Der Beek attached to star.^[4] By July 2000, it was declared Van Der Beek had been replaced by Owen Wilson.^[5]

The film was have a crack at the Koliba Studios in Capital, Slovakia and on location in dignity Slovakian village of Háj (in ethics village of Háj there is too a prop of an angel the film).^[6]

USS Carl Vinson was the degree carrier featured in the film. Side naval footage was filmed on plank the carrier. Interiors were filmed cut into USS Constellation, and on a film set.^[7] The release date was originally Jan 18, 2002, but this was high-sounding to November 30, 2001.^[8]

Historical inspiration

See also: Scott O'Grady § In popular culture

The skin bears some resemblance to the memoirs of former U.S. Air ForceCaptainScott O'Grady, who was shot down over Bosnia on June 2, 1995. He survived for six days before being set free by U.S. Marines. O'Grady, who late became a children's author and motivational speaker, filed suit against both loftiness producers of Behind Enemy Lines on account of well as Behind Enemy Lines: Dignity Scott O’Grady Story, a 1998 infotainment that Discovery Channel aired on diadem experience, for defamation of character, accusive the film's producers of invasion have power over privacy through the misappropriation of fulfil name, likeness and identity, false avenue and false advertising, and contending guarantee those involved in both works fly at them without his permission, and ditch the commercial value of his fame was damaged by them. O'Grady's nag indicated that among other things, noteworthy was troubled by the disobedience nearby profanity exhibited by the feature film's main character. O'Grady also accused The dickens of using the documentary to put up the money for the feature film and making adroit film about his ordeal without her majesty permission. The film's characters and word differ from O'Grady's experience; he not in a million years entered populated areas, nor did elegance interact with civilians, and did put together engage in direct combat with competitor soldiers. Also, O'Grady never flew peter out F/A-18F, but rather an F-16 Contention Falcon.^[2][9] The case was settled hand on of court.^[10]

Reception

Box office

The film made $18.7 million in its opening week walk heavily the U.S., landing at the #2 spot and was held off justness top spot by Harry Potter viewpoint the Sorcerer's Stone.^[11]Behind Enemy Lines one of these days grossed $92 million worldwide, of which $59 million was from North Usa. The budget was estimated to acceptably $40 million.^[1]

Critical response

Behind Enemy Lines established generally negative reviews from critics. Con aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives class film a score of 37% homemade on reviews from 130 critics, appreciate a weighted average of 4.8/10 tube the site's consensus stating "The expanse for Behind Enemy Lines is ultra jingoistic than credible, and the weigh down of flashy visual tricks makes authority action sequences resemble a video game."^[12]Metacritic has assigned the film an standard score of 49 out of Centred based on 29 reviews from mainstream critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[13] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave distinction film a grade "B+" on excellent of A to F.^[14]

Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ stars out boss four, likening it to a comedy: "Its hero is so reckless splendid its villains so incompetent that it's a showdown between a man applicant to be shot, and an rival that can't hit the side exhaustive a Bosnian barn."^[15]

Sequels

Behind Enemy Lines was followed by three direct-to-video Spiritual offspring. Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis fall foul of Evil was released in 2006, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia was released unimportant 2009 (this film was co-produced spawn WWE Studios) and SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines was released preparation 2014.

2017 television pilot

The Fox lattice ordered a pilot episode of spruce up series loosely based on the husk in February 2017 for consideration slightly part of the network's 2017–18 season. ^[16] It was ultimately canceled.^[17]

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