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I mean seriously. This is supposed to be an army, but not a single soldier can shoot. I have never seen more inaccurate shooting in my life. At the end, I was rooting for the bad guys, just so that they could get one shot on target. Just one... Just one... Even a lost bullet or a ricochet

Otherwise, it was a totally predictable movie, with the expected "plot twists" and a familiar happy ending. However, it could be good for some absolutely mindless entertainment. Movies like this and Deadly Prey are always fun to watch, because they are just that - pure minldless fun. Just browse the internet or something while watching it, because the entertainment value is definitely not constant. I could only take so many inaccurate shots fired by the bad guys.

I saw this on cable recently and got the feel that it was a tv-movie. The acting was low grade, and the story was shallow. The first scene sets a fast pace, and can pass for a cinema released movie, but after that, the entire film is a joke. It was full of plot holes, and does everything against common sense. The script even has scenes which attempt to make us feel for the characters, but fail miserably. I reason being that we dont even know the characters names, besides the hero.

The dialogue seemed as if it was written by a grade-school student, despite the numerous occasions which the characters swear their heads off. As if profanity is required for a f***ing film to be successful.

I know this comment may sound ironic, but why write these movies if theres nothing good to come out of it.

Bad acting, useless dialogue, formulaic script and implausible action sequences. If you enjoyed Rambo II, this is the movie for you. The ONLY redeeming quality is that it gave work to Filipino actors (playing Vietnamese...not very convincingly). It's unfortunate how so many Americans are still so totally hung up on the fact that they lost the Vietnam war that they need to keep creating this kind of crap just so that they can feel better through some pitiful consolation of watching scores of Vietnamese soldiers getting shot, beaten and "vanquished" by a couple of Americans. Which is why even the action sequences were bad. This film is really a low point.

I couldn't believe a movie could be so gawdawful, but it seems I'm wrong. Like you might be led to believe, this is one of those movies that have an old tired plot, lots of pointless action, and characters you could really care less about. It's as if the Movie God just decided to hunker down one day and pass this digested, festering turd of a movie in His great toilet and flush it into the sewers known as the "Straight to Video" market we harbor here on Earth. If you want to watch a great movie about Vietnam, try Apocalypse Now, it's brilliant. However, if you like this movie (!), try Platoon. It's got a larger budget and it's more well-known, but it's nearly just as stupid.

The guy/gal who writes the teaser for Cinemax screwed up again. I was hoping to get a good laugh watch Owen Wilson pretend to be a Navy officer in Behind Enemy Lines (2001), but they screwed up and put this one on instead.

Instead of laughs, I get Thomas Ian Griffith (xXx, Vampires) as an ex soldier going back to rescue his buddy, who was supposed to be dead, and some nuclear triggers. He is, in turn, rescued by a bunch of Marine misfits that lounge around on his boat in Tahiti.

No, it's not Rambo II, Braddock: Missing in Action III, Uncommon Valor, or any one of a hundred other B movies that have a similar theme. If you have seen any of those, you have seen this one.

This movie was so horrible that i had to watch "Passion of the Christ" afterwards to cheer myself up. It was so terrible that at first i thought it was a spoof! A shaolin monk could not sit through this movie. I cringe just thinking of the time i spent suffering the cheesiness of this wack ass movie. Warn your friends not to see this!! the folks who put this flick together should all sit down together and share a cup of Jesus juice.... i hope that none of these folks spawned children.... may god have mercy on their souls. If i see this movie again even momentarily whilst changing stations, i will have to gouge my own eyes out.

This is a perfect action movie. It starts out straight into the action, and continues in the same style all the way through. I guess about 75% of the movie consists of pure action scenes, and that's very good. I guess more rounds of ammo from machine guns are fired in this movie than in the whole Vietnam war. I think they did a really good job with a budget I guess was low (and yes, the actors are totally unknown and bad, but that doesn't matter at all in a movie like this, trust me). The plot is also a good one, taking place in Vietnam. The Vietnamese army are portrayed to be bad to the bone. Of course it's not like that in real life, but it's totally OK to portray them this way since Vietnam is a communist country after all.

I remember seeing this movie late one night. There was nothing else to watch, so I gave this a shot. I was pleasantly surprised. No, it does not have a big budget, so it is not going to rival a Hollywood blockbuster. If one goes into not expecting top of the line acting, cinematography, sound, and set then one probably won't be disappointed.

This is a B movie, so expect B move quality, not Spielberg. The plot was good, Thomas Ian Griffith is underrated. His martial arts skills are actually pretty good. He is not a small man, like Van Damme or Bruce Willis, but a physically imposing specimen, like Dolph Lundgren. Thisis the first movie Iremember seeing him in and I was impressed. If you want a way to kill an hour and a half, watch it.

So there seems to be some debate about whether this is made-for-TV or a B movie. Well, it appears to have been made for the cinema but with writers and a director not used to producing B movie quality.

The two lead actors, Thomas Ian Griffith as Mike Weston, and Chris Mulkey as Jones, are competent, the minor ones less so. If the Vietnamese actors look like Philippinos, there is a reason for that! The camera-work is pretty good, though I could use less slo-mo, and the action scenes are frequent and watchable.

The main problem is the writing. The basic story is too stupid to be worth describing. The US military is portrayed as full of low-intellect young men who can't put a sentence together without profanity. I wondered if there was some irony there but I don't think so.

Sit back and enjoy the action, if you can?

This B action movie is shot with a bit more competence than other films in the genre. It also looks like it had a generous budget, or at least a lot of cooperation from the Philippine army, judging by the amount of gunfights, soldiers, Armored Personnel Carriers and explosions that feature throughout the film. The plot is the old "rescue my 'Nam buddy from the rank jungle prison he's being held in by the psychotic Communist general with thousands of troops under his command" premise. The good guys are invincible, the bad guys thoroughly expendable. You know what to expect. Sit back and let our boys win one for the Gipper. I must add in closing that Thomas Ian Griffith really is a good actor- I hope he gets cast in more mainstream films in the future.

I stumbled upon the 1997 action thriller "Behind Enemy Lines"; not to be mistaken for the 2001 movie with the same name but starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. Now, I had never even heard about this 1997 movie from writers Andrew Osborne and Dennis Cooley before now in 2022, as I sat down to watch it. So I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations for the movie.

And with the likes of Thomas Ian Griffith and Chris Mulkey in the leading roles, I can't exactly say that I was expecting this to be a top of the line movie. But still, I opted to watch it, as I hadn't already seen director Mark Griffiths' 1997 movie.

Well, honestly speaking, then "Behind Enemy Lines" was actually a fairly entertaining movie. Sure, it was a very generic war movie in terms of it being a small underdog team that beat the massive opposition. And in this case it was former U. S. marines taking on Vietnamese soldiers. Yeah, that was the storyline here, so not much points scored for originality.

It was pretty hilarious that the movie was filmed in The Philippines, but was supposed to take place in Vietnam. Sure, it would have worked, if they had done a proper effort into making it look like it was Vietnam, such as having Vietnamese actors - as there is a big difference in appearances between the Vietnamese and Philippine people, also things like not using Jeepneys which is common to The Philippines, and such details. It just took away from the authenticity of the movie. I spotted the fact that it was The Philippines right away.

"Behind Enemy Lines" is a lean back in the seat with the popcorn kind of movie, and doesn't require anything cerebral from the audience. So it was fair entertainment for the masses, especially if you enjoy these predictable late 1990s war movies.

As for the cast in "Behind Enemy Lines", then I will say that Thomas Ian Griffith actually was surprisingly good in the role of Mike Weston. And Philippine actors Mon Confiado and Spanky Manikan added a lot of flavor to the movie. It was nice to see James Karen pop up in the movie, just a shame his role was so small.

This was a watchable movie, although not a particularly outstanding or memorable one. But it was sufficient enough for a single viewing.

My rating of the 1997 movie "Behind Enemy Lines" lands on a five out of ten stars.

is the character of Mike Weston in this movie in any way related to the Michael Weston of TV's show Burn Notice? i notice the spelling is different. and i don't know much about burn notice. but isn't the character supposed to be an ex spy/soldier/killer? could this be the early life of the character?

just curious. my friend adopted a kitten and named him Michael Westen for his favorite character on TV. i'd like to let him know. i think he would get a kick out of this. so please do some digging and let me know.

thanks

(1996) Behind Enemy Lines ACTION/ WAR

If I am judging this as an action movie, it's okay for it to be seen once, and that is basically it. You can tell, the director attempted to imitate John Woo's "gun-fu classics such as "Bullet in the Head", "Hardboild" and "The Killer movies to name a few and with mediocre success. The set up has a couple of marines of Mikey (Thomas Ian Griffith) and Jonesy (Chris Mulkey) infiltrating the selling of 'nuclear triggers' away from the hands of the Vietnamese army led by General Nguy (Spanky Manikan). And upon their escape, Mikey had to leave his friend, Jonesy behind as well as abandon the suit case that contain the nuclear triggers underwater. The movie then jumps one year later, and Mike is attempting to run a boat business along with his protege's of Donny (Maury Sterling), Luther (Mushond Lee) and Church (Courtney Gains), who we learn are also marines. And by the time, his superior shows up, he is then shown a photo that shows that his friend Jonesy is still alive and may be captured by Gen. Nguy and his army, locked in the Lwong Li prison. And upon Mikey's arrival, it is not long before he is framed and then tortured by Gen. Nguy and his army in regarding the whereabouts of the nuclear triggers. And it is their he meets Jonesy along with other captives. At this point, is when Mike's sister. Kat (Hillary Matthews) shows up looking for him, and as soon as they all find out he is in a Vietnamese prison camp, they all decide to travel there and free him, coming along with them is colonel Wolf (Mark Carlton) to whom they butt heads with.

Thomas Ian Griffith is a former Marine and occasional mercenary. When he learns his former partner is being held in Viet Nam by a general who wants some weapons-grade uranium, Griffith and the man's sister head to Viet Nam. When American diplomats can't do much, Griffith assembles some other mercs to help out a brother.

Although it's halfway through before the gun pornography begins, by the end there's a satisfying large body count -- hundreds of Vietnamese, and one of Americans sacrifices himself to blow up a tank. As usual, the Good Guys (as defined in the movie) are able to run throughout an army compound and shoot out gun emplacements, while the Bad Guys (faceless) seem unable to hit them.

Mikes is gonna get his pal Jonesie out of the prison from Vietnam, who is there captured one year ago when they were on a mission. But Mike is also getting busted. His sister and 3 of his friends, which he trained in the army, are gonna try to rescue them. It's a nice movie, good story, but the shooting is very exaggerated. Nearly anyone of the 'good' guys are getting hit in the rain of bullets.

My friends, this is an incredibly insipid movie. How many Vietnam-era flicks are gonna be produced before someone eventually decides "enough is enough"? Ignoring such films as "Platoon" or "Apocalypse Now" or "The Deer Hunter" (truly splendid examples of cinema within the genre) and also ignoring the first "Rambo" film (a movie I embarrasingly admit to having enjoyed), I have this suspicion that some shady, weasel-like producer in sunny So. California thought to himself "Hey! I know how to make a quick buck! I'll screw a few investors outta a couple hundred grand and I'll make a, uhh... yeah! I'll make a 'Nam flick!"

Phuuleeze! Give it a rest, willya? The only people who would possibly find this movie worth watching are pre-pubescent little boys living in Idaho.