An Owen Wilson War Movie Launched A Franchise We'd Rather Forget

An Owen Wilson War Movie Launched A Franchise We'd Rather Forget


You probably don't think of his 2001 war feature "Behind Enemy Lines," where Wilson plays a navigator shot down in a warzone amid the Bosnian War and uncovers a genocide taking place. Many felt it to be a shallow war movie, like Stephanie Zacharek, who wrote in her review for Salon, "If you're looking for anything beyond flashy entertainment, 'Behind Enemy Lines' feels out of whack from the start." It definitely doesn't feel like the kind of movie that would lend itself to sequels, yet that's precisely what happened because Hollywood will run anything and everything into the ground if it can.

Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Mike Bedard)


Published at: 2025-08-03 19:30:00

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