This also marks one of the few times a film starring Griffith is available on Blu-ray. The film is presented in widescreen (1:78:1), and the sound and picture quality are obviously far superior to what the VHS tape had to offer. The problem with the film is theyve taken a war drama and transformed it into a Mission:Impossible. Olive Films recently released Behind Enemy Lines on DVD and Blu-ray, which was the first time this title was available apart from the Orion VHS. 2001s Behind Enemy Lines tries to find common ground. Griffith shares the spotlight with a bunch of other guys who don’t deserve the time of day. VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - Two missiles are fired from the ground at a plane and the plane flies recklessly trying to evade them one missile flies into the ground and.
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The best scene has him on trial for murder in a Vietnamese court and he manages to break his bonds, kill everyone in the room and shred the judge’s perch with a machine gun! Movies like this where the hero must depend on a crew of lesser helpers are always a tad bit disappointing because you really just want the hero to do almost all of the damage, but this one is like that. One of Griffith’s better vehicles, Behind Enemy Lines gives the star of Excessive Force lots of room to showcase his martial arts in the midst of a war-type action film, and he’s got some great moments. Still, the film's pro-American attitude should help it gather some momentum in these. Weston ends up getting captured by the Vietnamese and tortured alongside his buddy (played by Chris Mulkey), but his platoon comes and helps them escape, leading to a blast-filled finale. Aside from some exciting action sequences, Behind Enemy Lines is just another tired look at men playing war.
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Sobering up with a fresh resolve, Weston has no time to train his soldiers, so they get right to the mission, and he’s got his hands full with the team that was chosen for him: They don’t follow orders very well, they make constant mistakes, and they don’t respect him until he proves to them that if they don’t begin falling into line they will all die behind enemy lines where a formidable army awaits them. He is approached by the CIA to go back to Vietnam with a platoon of young, inexperienced soldiers to retrieve the triggers and rescue his partner, who is still alive and in captivity. A year later, Mike Weston (Thomas Ian Griffith) is a washed-up drunk, reliving that fateful mission a year ago. One of them is captured and the other one makes it out, thinking that his partner was killed. Review: Two commandos are on a top-secret mission in present-day Vietnam, and their task is to steal several nuclear triggers, but they fail spectacularly. The campaign never proved decisive for World War I but, to coin a. Synopsis: An ex-marine returns to Vietnam when he learns his former mercenary partner whom he thought was killed is being held by a sadistic general. His guerrilla operations behind enemy lines helped set the stage for the success of 1918. One of Griffith’s better vehicles, Behind Enemy Lines gives the star of Excessive Force lots of room to showcase his martial arts in the midst of a war-type action film, and he’s got some great moments making for an entertaining actioner.