“Behind Enemy Lines” quotes
(2001)
Title Behind Enemy Lines
Year 2001
Director John Moore
Genre Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Year 2001
Director John Moore
Genre Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Plot – Young Lieutenant Chris Burnett confides his colleagues he wants to leave the army. He thinks their mission in Bosnia on the American aircraft Vinson is too much routine. Furthermore they spend too much time doing nothing, but his commander Admiral Reigart makes him clear he can't leave for the moment and sends Chris on a photographic reconnaissance mission on a F18. Burnett shoots some pictures in forbidden areas, then he's suddenly attacked and his plane falls. Burnett and his co-pilot Steakhouse throw themselves by parachute. While Steakhouse is killed by Sasha, a designated killer, Burnett runs away and reaches the meeting point with his allies, who however cannot save him. To reach a safe US area, Burnett begins a getaway through desolated territories and ghost towns.
All actors – Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, David Keith, Olek Krupa, Joaquim de Almeida, Vladimir Mashkov, Marko Igonda, Eyal Podell, Geoff Pierson, Aernout Van Lynden, Sam Jaeger, Shane Johnson, Don Winston, Elizabeth Perry, Igor Hajdarhodzic, Tarik Filipovic, Peter Palka, Todd Boyce, Kamil Kollarik, Salaetin Bilal, Laurence Mason, Leon Russom, Goran Grgic, Ivan Urbánek, Ismet Bagtasevic, Dragan Marinkovic, Kamil Mikulcík, Vedrana Seksan, Vladimir Oktavec, Dorothy Lucey, Greg Goossen, Filip Nola, Bumper Robinson, Ann Sorum, George Davis, Tom Mooney, Mark Bocchetti, Lucia Srncova, Daniel Margolius, Robert Franko, Lukas Hoffmann, Jared Chandler, Dwayne Adway, Ratko Mladic
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“- Stackhouse: O'Malley told me you dropped your letter, he's bullshitting me, right?
- Burnett: Nope, he's telling the truth.
- Stackhouse: Oh, so you're gonna break up the band? That's good. Listen, Chris, I thought you were kidding about getting out. Are you telling me I gotta find another navigator? Is that the deal?
- Burnett: I can't do it...” (continue)(continue reading)“Unless we're parked in San Diego Bay, you're at war every time you step on this boat.”
“- Piquet: If we fly in there, we create a shitstorm, and the whole treaty will collapse.
- Reigart: Admiral, Burnett says that Serb troops murdered his pilot!
- Piquet: Is your pilot an expert on Bosnia? Can he tell the difference of the uniform of a Serb, Croat, and Muslim? Because I can't, and I've been posted here for five years.”“They killed my pilot because we took pictures of the graves, and I know where they are. And I am gonna get them, so he didn't die for no reason.”
“You're an optimist, sir. See I had you figured for a grouch.”
Americans, all you care about is your own damn pilots! What happens when the fighting starts again? Will America recommit its forces to stop a major war? No, you don't have any control over that little detail, do you? You might have helped save your man today, Reigart, and I emphasize "might", but you risk the lives of thousands tomorrow.
“We're on another useless joyride at the cost of mere millions to the US taxpayer.”
“Lokar killed everyone. Children and women. Buried them up in the hills.”
“- Stackhouse: We're not supposed to fly that sector, Chris. The brass will have a shit-fit.
- Burnett: Hey, we're on recon so let's recon something.”“Everybody thinks they're gonna get a chance to punch some Nazi in the face in Normandy, but those days are over. They're long gone.”
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