The Nazis were bad guys he could get excited about, but he can't even pronounce the names of the nearby cities in Bosnia. It rankles him that the United States isn't at war. When Burnett's jet is shot down, he orders Reigart not to rescue him.īurnett is portrayed as a wisecracking whiner who longs to see action. Navy Admiral Reigart ( Gene Hackman) that his pilots will toe the line. The film hints that he knows of Serbian atrocities and wants to protect the perpetrators.Īt the beginning of the movie the commander extracts a promise from U.S. The other villain of the piece is a NATO commander, played by Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida, who has a murky and possibly nefarious political agenda. He is a killing machine, a sweaty Terminator in a track suit. He has no name and one malevolent expression. Though we see Serbian commanders and troops, the gunman who executes the pilot is the movie's primary representation of the Serb military. They flew over and took pictures of activities the Serbs would rather the rest of the world not know about. They had deviated from their flight path after radar picked up movement in a demilitarized zone. Chris Burnett, who is shot down and must flee Serbian forces after watching a gunman execute his pilot. That's where this overloud, hyperkinetic movie belongs: sandwiched between ads for SEGA Strike Fighter and P Ditty. The commercial ran, appropriately, during the MTV Music Awards. First-time director John Moore was discovered in 1999 when producers saw a commercial he shot for a video game.
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