Behind Enemy Lines Reviews
Top CriticIts 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 Bos-nian barn.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Fresno Bee
In many ways resembles a methodically played game one step removed from a real drama.
Netflix
Military thriller aims high and misses the barn door by a mile.
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| Original Score: 1/5
eFilmCritic.com
While it's far from the worst B-movie action flick to come down the pike, I'd hardly consider that a strong endorsement.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Uncomplicated war movie with straight-ahead, MTV-style action mixed with simplistic politics.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Here, it's all about the people who are fighting, not about what they're fighting for, and nobody seems to care about justice or freedom.
Directed by first-timer John Moore on the strength of his work on a Sega game ad, which may tell you everything you need to know about its visual sense and narrative nonsense.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Behind Enemy Lines crosses into the ugly side of patriotism.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
SPLICEDWire
...the American masses...seem to want our entertainment and our wars to be simplistic, expeditious, dangerously shortsighted, and goal-oriented to the point of tunnel vision.
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| Original Score: 2/4
eFilmCritic.com
An unapologetic flag waving military action flick that just happens to suck really, really bad.
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
Movie Metropolis
Not even Hackman's typical self-assurance can save this stock military thriller.
| Original Score: 4/10
The Bosnian War becomes a video game, Gene Hackman turns into a pseudo-John Wayne, and Owen Wilson and Vladimir Mashkov impersonate The Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.
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| Original Score: 2/4
All those arguments about how desensitizing video games are certainly apply here.
