A former documentarian who's been shot at in Lebanon, first-time feature director John Moore knows what bullets sound like. And he admits that the movie version of war in his Behind Enemy Lines is "pretty ridiculous."
The film, with Owen Wilson as a flyer shot down in Bosnia and Gene Hackman as his worried admiral back on the aircraft carrier, leans on war as we've come to know it on the big screen. Every bullet breaks the sound barrier and the good guys avoid thousands of rounds of enemy fire, presumably due to magic underwear ("the kind Osama bin Laden wears," the game Irish filmmaker notes with a grin).
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