Behind Enemy Lines: Critic Reviews

The pop-soundtrack bombast of the too-infrequently somber Behind Enemy Lines ... sometimes reduces a mediocre pursuit movie with capable action to 'Rockin' Bosnia.'

An old-fashioned game of the cinematic cat-and-mouse, soldier-on-the-run variety.

This baby comes equipped with all the bells and missiles. Given the standard-issue plot, it's about all it can be.

The filmmakers do their best to distract us, but eventually it becomes hard to ignore that Behind Enemy Lines is one long chase sequence.

The only thing certain about Behind Enemy Lines is that Mr. Wilson is in it for the chance to work with Mr. Hackman, and Mr. Hackman is in it for the money.

Pro forma stuff, so much so that you start to wonder why no fetching femme resistance fighter materializes to help the Americans on the ground.

Action movie with intense peril and devastation.

From its prosaic title to its convenient timeliness, this valentine to U.S. military guys hamstrung by officious NATO bureaucrats could hardly seem less promising

That's just one of many reasons why I'm reluctant to call Behind the Lines entertainment. Propaganda, MTV-style, might be closer to the truth.

A satisfying enough piece of giddy-up entertainment that raises a few passing questions about the American 'cowboy mentality' before ultimately deciding it's a lot more fun to simply eat your action movie cake than try to have it too.

Behind Enemy Lines crosses into the ugly side of patriotism.

Plays more like a recruitment video for the US military than any serious examination of conflict.

This film was so uninspired and bad, it is difficult to find anything positive to say about it.

It's pure adventure hokum, despite some end captions which are put up as though the events portrayed really happened (they didn't).

Military thriller aims high and misses the barn door by a mile.

There isn't a single surprise, but there is a lot of hokey (and mostly too loud) music, along with tired visuals (parachuting over a snow-clad angel statue is one) and stuff blowing up.

Works pretty well as long as you don't pay too much attention to what anyone says and just let the action sweep you along.

It is flawed, often-breathless entertainment anchored to the confusion, complexities and horrors of current armed and ethnic conflicts.

The whole endeavor is wound up in heroic pontificating that renders it boring and cornily pretentious.

Forgettable Hollywood war movie that begs you to leave your brain at home...

Ejemplo de un cine de accion fresco que buena falta le hace al mercado hollywoodense.

La cinta, pese a su altisima carga patriotera y su narrativa tipo Rambo logra mostrarnos la crudeza de la guerra de Bosnia.

Goes over the top and beyond in grandly heroic and even superheroic style, in a way unmatched by any war movie since Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Not even Hackman's typical self-assurance can save this stock military thriller.

Flag-waving claptrap--a self-congratulating mess of an action movie.