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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: All those arguments about how desensitizing video games are certainly apply here. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: A video and commercial maker as well as a military-hardware buff, Moore knows how to mount a visual assault. Read more
Charles Savage, Miami Herald: Moore, just up from television commercials, relies too heavily on a pastiche of stylistic elements cribbed from others. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A piece of junk. Read more
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: It sent two of America's most watchable actors -- veteran Gene Hackman and Dallas native Owen Wilson -- to war without a script. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Provides about as intense an immersion in military ambience as a Hollywood movie could hope to provide in just over 90 minutes. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Put into the context of a real world at war, the movie seems impossibly shallow. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It is loud. It is formulaic. It's also, more often than not, a thumping good time at the movies. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Politics bad. Boom boom good. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: An implausible military technology adventure that takes about 10 minutes to get started, then climaxes for an hour-and-a-half. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: An involving and driving action-packed movie. Read more
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: As steel-toed, tin-eared, flat-footed, jingoistic military thrillers go, Behind Enemy Lines marches in formation, clomping down familiar roads. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A highly competent, if inflated, action flick that offers us war from every vantage. Read more
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Rex Reed, New York Observer: 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. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The premise is familiar and the storyline formulaic, yet the execution is effective enough that it keeps us involved for the running length. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Its 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. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: If you're looking for anything beyond flashy entertainment, Behind Enemy Lines feels out of whack from the start. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 'Oh no, what will happen to Tom Cruise!' -- that might have worked. 'Oh no, what will happen to Owen Wilson!' just doesn't cut it. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The filmmakers do their best to distract us, but eventually it becomes hard to ignore that Behind Enemy Lines is one long chase sequence. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: 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. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: The pop-soundtrack bombast of the too-infrequently somber Behind Enemy Lines ... sometimes reduces a mediocre pursuit movie with capable action to 'Rockin' Bosnia.' Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The exhausting obsession with gizmos and gotchas only accentuates a baffling disinterest in the story's emotional crux. Read more