I remember watching this as a teenager. times were so much simpler back then. I too can't believe it's that old. feels like it was just yesterday. Funny watching it now, I can identify the rashist weapons systems in the movie since I'm following the war in Ukraine like the Strela-10 SAM or the BMD. However the missiles only have a 5000 metre operational range but they flew a lot more than that dodging them
Helluva a movie. Got to remember the Slavs/Serb’s shot a actual F117 down during this conflict(I don’t think they actually named the country, been awhile). kind of made this movie a little more realistic for me , anyway. Good times , I was young.
My dad and I started a tradition of going to the movies once a week. This was the movie that started it for us. He’s been gone ten years now but watching this clip brought back memories of the last years I got to spend with him.
Godspeed to your Dad. I hope you guys had a lot of movies before he passed. Which ones did you watch? My Dad and I would occasionally watch a movie together, Bad Santa was something we watched together. But he got me into a lot of old shows I normally wouldn't be into. Seinfeld was one of them.
Dude; MASSIVE respect to Owen in this. This is so outside his typical role, and it's beyond impressive. He could have been in the newest "Top Gun" and done a very believable role.
Because of this film, I recognise him as a great actor and one of my most favourite actor. Crazy, wise and brave, his character in this movie was more interesting than any of Top Gun.
actually Owen attended military academy in new mexico when he was young, so he might have some military background a bit on that. And that's why probably he acted so good in this. I love him in this movie. One of his best films.
I love this scene, the panic, the stress and fear of a missile tailing you, then just before the missile hits. The sense of everything has slowed down. Pure magic
I was just thinking the same thing. Knowing anything about how fighter aircraft and missiles work ruins the scene but if you can shut of your brain for 5 minutes, it's so much fun. Now we have Top Gun: Maverick.
The sequence of cuts when they pull the ejector seats is so good. So many details in all of the tiny processes that happen from the wiring harnesses burning to the seatbelts synching down and the onboard hard-drive destroying itself.
@hardstyle905 I don't know if the movie got it right with the (thermite?) fuze, but jet pilots genuinely have a "zeroize" button in the cabin that flashes any onboard memory to all 0's so there's no intel or software engineering for the enemy to recover. I wouldn't be surprised if it automatically runs when seats eject too.
@@coopers1716same thing with the SINCGARS radios and the ANCD that you load the encrypted frequencies into the SINCGARS with. You punch the “ZERO” button 3 times and it erases everything so the enemy can’t listen to your radio transmissions.
my brother worked on ejector seats in the Marines. I had some lil pieces for a long time. Stuff they junked. F-14 Tomcats, he traveled the Pacific and California.
I like the fact that there is no music until it was needed. The details in the vast amount of angles put you right there and the sound effects are just amazing. Top film
Depends what you like. If you like a lot of hollywood crap then yeah i feel you. Me personally can't stand it when you looking at something and it is clearly unrealistic as hell. Everybody knows a missile doesn't work like that at all. They should have gone with topgun 2 style imo, More believable and not to much unicorn bs.
Who wrote this cinematic dog poo is an idiot. Missiles don’t chase their targets like that and they most certainly don’t turn around. Mr. Wetorded durrr do you like my movie? Durrrrrrrr
He's a great actor with a lot of range...I know that most people see him as this comedian doing funny roles but he can play anything... This was a great movie...
He's the kind of guy you see a lot as a sort of ambivalent officer, but still a basically good guy. I'm fairly certain they modified to role to match his personality and strengths, and it just happened to be analogous to a real type of person.. so I'm not sure 50 O. Wilson movies, where he is a half-assed officer that learns a lesson about duty, would really have a "blockbuster" level of success.
Yeah, the missiles had way too much fuel, but they did it so that the missiles could pull off these acrobatic moves. Heat seekers chase, but that's also why their short range. Radar guided plot intercept vectors instead of attempting to chase the target.
Somewhere in these comments is an explanation of how a missile would not/could not do this stuff. Whatever, my sphincter tightens EVERY time I see this no matter how many times. *Second missile in the air* gives me heart palpitations.
Sin lugar a duda y además la gran capacidad de estrategia de combate que tenía el ejército serbio bosnio es admirable contra un montón de tecnología inimaginable se impuso en el este de Europa escondiendo sus misiles y equipos de tal manera que jamás pudieron ser hallados por la otan Lamentablemente para Estados Unidos y la otan haber subestimado a su rival fue su desgracia en los balcanes esto también es un gran testimonio del Arsenal y equipamiento del Antiguo Unión soviética que a pesar de ser desfasado por antigüedad sigue siendo uno de los equipos más temibles a tener en cuenta lo que hace que Rusia en ingeniería armamentística y misiles sea un rival a temer lo que hace que Rusia sea un rival a tomarse en serio en una eventual guerra Tanto Napoleón Bonaparte como adolf Hitler dan testimonio de ello
I experienced this a couple years back when I was trying to beat my record up to the top of a couple peaks on hiking trails and back down. On the way back down I was running with my feet low to the ground due to the nature of the terrain. The ball of my right foot just barely skimmed a small rock on the ground, just enough to keep my right leg from moving forward for the next step. My body plunged forward like a meteor about to impact the Earth. I knew I was going to plow face-first into the ground and rocks going downhill. Before I did, it seemed like time stopped, and I had all sorts of time to imagine that I would break bones and need an ambulance ride. It was surreal. Then I hit. BOOM. My stuff flew in all different directions, phone, hat, shades, water bottle... shredded my hands and arms pretty bad, a bit on the face, but that was the worst damage. I carefully moved my body and checked for signs of breakage and found none, so I got up, grabbed my stuff and continued running, breaking my record. The next day I found out I had cracked ribs. That time-slows-down thing is pretty far out.
@@gapprs84 I don't think anyone thinks this is " accurate" it's obviously not but the visuals are amazing in a day and age with way over use of CGI it's cool to see a scene like that that was not to much CGI and actually had a real f18 flying through most of the scene.
Legend has it that that Sam missile landed safely and scored a further 23 kills before the end of the war. It currently works as an instructor at red flag
eh... the ejection sequence was the coolest part. rest was pretty bad some weird reaction shots. missiles are defeated once they pass you or just go stupid and miss.
Murica wrestling is 50 years old. Also extremely over the top fake. Still people like it i guess. I am more of a topgun 2 fan. Not extremely fake that it feels cringy when you watch it. This feels more like a fantasy comic orso. I am all for a little bit of show and hollywood shit. But when you over do it with so much fantasy crap, it just feels silly and it takes you out of the story concept of really beleaving/getting into the story.
I was supposed to see this movie with my father in law. He passed away 2 days before it premiered. We would go see movies like this all of the time. He died in 2002.
I'm sorry for your loss at least you got to spent the time with him before he passed. 🙏 i just came here to admire the SAM missile downing this jet what a deadly little bastard even if it isn't realistic.
I think this is one of the best missile fighter plane scenes ever made! I really enjoyed Owen Wilson in this character. Why did he never make more movies like this!
I thought he was great too. But he’s more of a comedic actor than an action star and Hollywood tends to pigeonhole actors who are really good at a particular type of genre.
@@neon6826 They used flares at 3:55 when there was only one missile but it obviously didn't work. When the second missile was shot they needed a bigger heat source to decoy.
Still one of the coolest fighter pilot scenes in movie history. Action packed all the way through. Edit: Ya'll couldn't let me have this one thing huh? haha since everyone is so hung up on the "reality" of the scene, here's my updated comment. "Still one of the coolest, unrealistic fighter pilot scenes in movie history. Action packed all the way through!!" There ya'll go:) Now make sure to keep that energy when you watch any superhero movie, car movie, or any movie. Much love!
Mais realista que top gun Maverick, faltam 2 mísseis para essa cena ser mais realista, se eles fossem traçados pelo S300 em baixa altitude como estavam, provavelmente teriam sido abatidos no primeiro míssil
@@Santos79700well not completely. The S-300 is semi-active radar guided so flares and dropping fuel tanks wouldn’t stop it. The only way to defeat SAR guided SAM’s are Chaff, notching, outrunning (unlikely), and hitting the deck to confuse the SAM’s radar. If it was IR guided missiles, there would be no SAM launch warning or track because the IR SAM tracks heat signatures which isn’t detected by a F18C’s RWR. The SAM in the movie is the Strela-10 (SA-13), which is a short range, optical/infrared-guided SAM. Those things are super hard to defeat when in range, which is why SOP is stay outside their range (5nm) and altitude.
Omg the sound effects in this movie (this scene especially) is absolutely amazing! Watching this on a great surround sound home theater is just incredible! Really wish Owen did more movies like this!🥰🤩
I'm not in the airforce, and I truly aplreciate the ammount of effort with all the camera angles, all of the inner workings of the ejection seats, and normal and natural radio communications.
I saw this in theaters. My blood was bumping and I had straight chills running down my spine. It was loud, it was visceral, you could feel their adrenaline. One of my top 10 memorable moments at the movies.
The thing about Behind Enemy Lines is that it never aims for anything approaching realism. It's more... expressionistic. Evocative. Everything from this scene to the minefield scene is more about the imagery, the emotions of these concepts like being chased by a missile or running through a minefield. It gets super loosey goosey with how planes work or how mines work but the end result is kinetic and mesmerizing. It's very different to a military film that gets lots of stuff wrong wrong but doesn't do anything interesting with it.
@@mauricioprimus2610 If you take it seriously, yes. Hope you caught the "made in USA" on the burning wreck that the editors focussed on at the end of the clip. Haha!
so the missile chase itself isn't very realistic. real sams can track to a degree, but once it misses it misses, its not going to loop back and chase after. that being said the ejection itself is insanely accurate, right down to the explosive rivets blowing out the canopy and the seat itself being pulled back into the booster.
Yup. A more dramatic way of depicting the SAMs would've been to have multiple launchers of different types firing at them from different directions. At first it's SA-13s and SA-9s, which they manage to escape from, before an SA-6 drives them back down low, and then finally we get a shot of some random Serbs with Iglas getting a call that the jet was heading towards them, and they set up, fire, and get the kill-shot with the main characters never even knowing that they were shot at until after one of the missiles blows the tail off.
1. These are radar guided SAMs, not heat 2. SAMs flying around like they're wire guided with infinite fuel 😂 3. Fuel tanks do not explode when dropped 4. Magical fire ball that finishes the plane? Yeah no. I gave this 1 Owen Wilson WOOOOOWs out of 5
This movie has everything a great action flick needs. Tension, military hardware, the occasional bit of humour and eastern europeans in stripey tracksuits.
It doesn't matter how unrealistic and hokey this sequence is, it's still one of the coolest aviation sequences ever put on film. The real flying footage is great, despite the wacky ass shit the missiles are doing lol.
@@NorthThird Its called un-needed suspension, there doesnt need to be 3 mins of spinning around when you can do groundwork better beforehand. Not every scene has to be turned into popcorn.
And after this incident, Harvey Specter decided that flying a Jet was to risky for him...he went to Harvard Lawschool and started his career as a Lawyer at Pearson & Hardman.
3:11 I guess ? Well I wondered too, for him, the guy must deaf with blood running from his ears drums, blind and may be be burning. And other things like shock related wounds but I'm not a medic, simple guess.
The pilots were struggling hard enough to avoid that first missile. Launching that second one so nonchalantly just made your heart sink. Once you saw that shot you knew the pilots were fucked.
There are a few comments mentioning Owen Wilson missing from Top Gun 2. I have to say... Top Gun 2 was perfect, but this combination was definitely missing!
Lol this is the least accurate missile dynamics I’ve ever seen. The missile would’ve not tracked in about 7 cases during the scene. The burn time is way too long, and the missile can’t track and turn to a target behind it. Both missiles would’ve been defeated in the first 5 seconds or they would’ve been shot down.
@@dondelchulia3189 There are actually AAM (not SAM) that can track even it the target is behind it. Not 100% sure, but I think it's Israeli's Python 5. But yeah, most of the scenes aren't realistic.
Imagine living a time loop watching this scene over and over while your Hooter's girlfriend brings you hot wings and a pitcher full of beer in your birthday.
I wish people understood the difference between a movie and a documentary. Its a movie. Its for entertainment. No, its not accurate. But it is entertaining as hell, so stop picking it apart and enjoy it for what it was designed for.
If you have a movie set in reality. Then having something so unrealistic.. so unrealistic it's beyond ridiculous.. that ruins the movie for a lot of people.
The script writers use a trick called suspension of disbelief, but often they take it too far. As an engineer I cringe when I see the scenes where a character, for example, silently crawls in the ductwork through the entire building, easily going around corners, climbing up the risers, manages to open grilles from the inside, and comes out without a speck of dust on him. Not a single turning vane or a volume damper that would block his progress in sight. When I see this the movie is ruined for me, no matter how good it is. Or take the Die Hard With a Vengeance movie, my favorite pet peeve. The bad guys blow up a subway station as a cover for their attempt to rob the Gold Vault at New York Federal Reserve Bank. Within an hour some dude shows up with a column of dump trucks and heavy equipment and the police just let him waltz in and start disturbing the crime scene, no questions asked. I don't even mention the fact that the vault is hundreds of feet below the subway station and it would take months to tunnel to it through hard Manhattan Schist. That's just not believable.
Movies really need someone that has actually seen how SAM's are deployed, other than the infinite magic missiles this scene still holds up great. The ejection sequence was a nice touch I forgot about that.
Dude , You are my man , finally someone takes this angle , if this was radar guided , no way it would have gone to fire ball , if it wasn't missile range would very small and manoeuvres would be a lot more easier and realistic than this , the whole missile launch operation is a bit movie styled.
I also thought "man this still holds up pretty well even in top gun maverick times" until I paused at 4:54 to discover this rough miniature landscape XD
Dad and I started going to the movies together from when I was 7. It was a great father, son bonding time for both of us. I remember watching Behind Enemy Lines at the Majestic Cinema in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with dad. I was 23 at that time. Owen W surprised the both of us with his unexpected departure from comedy and his deep dive into an action flick. Enjoyed the movie and then we both went out and had a few beers before heading home. He passed this June 16th at 82yrs of age. This scene deffo rekindles many cherished memories. I used to share the challenges I was facing from time to time in my life during our special bonding hours. He was always there to listen and to guide me with subtle course corrections! Miss you Appa! I consider myself blessed beyond compare for having born your little boy! Till we meet again dad. Till we meet again!
Cause SAM rockets have enough fuel for 5 minutes of hard manouvering, but have difficulties tracking targets that start to climb and get confused easily and switch to focusing on fireballs created when dropped fuel tanks explode... for some reason.
@@EndriuC As a former B-52 EWO, I can confirm that this SAM scene is totally fucking ridiculous! Same with the MANPAD IR (shoulder launched, heat seeking) missile that homes on a dude’s cigarette 50 yards away in the Vin Diesel movie, “XXX.” Both scenes depict SAM flight dynamics so completely contrary to actual real world performance that I just can’t get past them. Still loved both movies, though!
What if it is russian made SAM instead of american made, would it make a difference in performance? Could it do then, things you describe as ridicuolous?
4:10 Not a f*ckin flinch... I was 10 years old when I watched this great movie with my dad. 20 years... Still believe this take is truly badass. To say it's the first Owen Wilson movie I've watched, then learned not exactly his typical roles (It reaffirms my philosophy on comedian actors being great drama actors too). This scene (the tension, the fear, the suspense...) gotta be the best one.
Just gotta take a second to thank this movies talent acquisition and costume design teams for giving rise to the bounty hunter. His look directly inspired the look for Niko Bellic in GTA IV. Rockstar even approached the actor to see if he would voice Niko, but he didn’t want to do it. They ultimately kept the look in and one of gamings most famous characters was born because of this movie
When I first listened to the Su-34 outmanoeuvring the patriot missile by following Russian ATC directions, I immediately was reminded of this scene. Even though this not technically accurate, this movie still captured the intensity, pilot strain and exhaustion well.
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Can't believe this movie is 21 years old, one of the most nail biting scenes I've ever seen. Still holds up.
I remember watching this as a teenager. times were so much simpler back then. I too can't believe it's that old. feels like it was just yesterday. Funny watching it now, I can identify the rashist weapons systems in the movie since I'm following the war in Ukraine like the Strela-10 SAM or the BMD. However the missiles only have a 5000 metre operational range but they flew a lot more than that dodging them
Helluva a movie. Got to remember the Slavs/Serb’s shot a actual F117 down during this conflict(I don’t think they actually named the country, been awhile). kind of made this movie a little more realistic for me , anyway.
Good times , I was young.
Bro I was literally thinking the exact same thing the entire time
wow.. missiles that NEVER run out of propellant.. I never knew a Infrared missile can be detected before launch... what crap.
Fun fact, this was the last movie the Navy allowed to film on carrier before 9/11 introduced new security protocols
My dad and I started a tradition of going to the movies once a week. This was the movie that started it for us. He’s been gone ten years now but watching this clip brought back memories of the last years I got to spend with him.
The feels, man. 🥺
I watched this when I was pretty young with my dad. I’ll have to watch it with him this weekend thanks for the idea. Sorry to hear he passed.
Godspeed to your Dad. I hope you guys had a lot of movies before he passed.
Which ones did you watch? My Dad and I would occasionally watch a movie together, Bad Santa was something we watched together. But he got me into a lot of old shows I normally wouldn't be into. Seinfeld was one of them.
same..
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Dude; MASSIVE respect to Owen in this. This is so outside his typical role, and it's beyond impressive. He could have been in the newest "Top Gun" and done a very believable role.
Yeah Man i agree Will be very nice
Because of this film, I recognise him as a great actor and one of my most favourite actor. Crazy, wise and brave, his character in this movie was more interesting than any of Top Gun.
This is by far my favorite Owen Wilson movie, it's even one of my all time favorites ever. This movie in incredible
actually Owen attended military academy in new mexico when he was young, so he might have some military background a bit on that. And that's why probably he acted so good in this. I love him in this movie. One of his best films.
Especially when he was also Lighting McQueen
I love this scene, the panic, the stress and fear of a missile tailing you, then just before the missile hits. The sense of everything has slowed down. Pure magic
It had no business going this hard😮
Sometimes I don't care how realistic a scene is. I just see this scene as damn exciting! And that's what a movie is supposed to be.
I was just thinking the same thing. Knowing anything about how fighter aircraft and missiles work ruins the scene but if you can shut of your brain for 5 minutes, it's so much fun. Now we have Top Gun: Maverick.
U mean unrealistic..
Owen's first few lines in this clip about military intelligence and tax dollars were pretty real lol
If you want a realistic thing join the air Force. Or Navy. iLike this movie.
@@doccholo905 Exactamundo. I haven't been shot down by a SAM myself, but I'd say this is pretty realistic.
The sequence of cuts when they pull the ejector seats is so good. So many details in all of the tiny processes that happen from the wiring harnesses burning to the seatbelts synching down and the onboard hard-drive destroying itself.
@hardstyle905 I don't know if the movie got it right with the (thermite?) fuze, but jet pilots genuinely have a "zeroize" button in the cabin that flashes any onboard memory to all 0's so there's no intel or software engineering for the enemy to recover. I wouldn't be surprised if it automatically runs when seats eject too.
@@coopers1716they tried. I appreciate the detail. Back when movies were good
@@coopers1716same thing with the SINCGARS radios and the ANCD that you load the encrypted frequencies into the SINCGARS with. You punch the “ZERO” button 3 times and it erases everything so the enemy can’t listen to your radio transmissions.
my brother worked on ejector seats in the Marines. I had some lil pieces for a long time. Stuff they junked. F-14 Tomcats, he traveled the Pacific and California.
Recognized the WD drive lol.
I like the fact that there is no music until it was needed. The details in the vast amount of angles put you right there and the sound effects are just amazing. Top film
i wish horror movies used less music. it always gives so much away, I don't really enjoy them for that reason.
yep amazing scene
Depends what you like. If you like a lot of hollywood crap then yeah i feel you. Me personally can't stand it when you looking at something and it is clearly unrealistic as hell. Everybody knows a missile doesn't work like that at all. They should have gone with topgun 2 style imo, More believable and not to much unicorn bs.
@@toetert I guess the issue is a lot of people think this is pretty realistic, or near-realistic.
Wow! Top Gun ain't got nothing on this. Did the actors have to go to real boot camp training for this movie?
“Holy shit! We’re being painted!!”
That line has always stayed in my head from the day I saw this in the theater.
Same!
Yet the launched flares for a radar guided missle… flares or for heat seekers, SAM batteries track with early warning radar.
Who wrote this cinematic dog poo is an idiot. Missiles don’t chase their targets like that and they most certainly don’t turn around. Mr. Wetorded durrr do you like my movie? Durrrrrrrr
He's a great actor with a lot of range...I know that most people see him as this comedian doing funny roles but he can play anything...
This was a great movie...
Agreed. It was interesting seeing him do this movie. Taken seriously and not like a comedy guy.
True. He was good too in No Escape, or even a tragic drama film like Marley and Me.
Owen’s role was offered to Tom cruise originally
@@joshpillos I didn't know that...Maybe it was because of Tom Cruise's work in Top Gun ?
Hahahaha. No
Kinda wish Owen Wilson made more films like 'Behind Enemy Lines'. I thought he did really well in this.
Me too I like him serious
I also thoroughly enjoyed No Escape. He's a great action hero and not just a comedian.
Kinda
Agreed. I think still the best jet plane scene on film. Niko Bellic my man!
He's the kind of guy you see a lot as a sort of ambivalent officer, but still a basically good guy. I'm fairly certain they modified to role to match his personality and strengths, and it just happened to be analogous to a real type of person.. so I'm not sure 50 O. Wilson movies, where he is a half-assed officer that learns a lesson about duty, would really have a "blockbuster" level of success.
From 2001 to 2021.. And so on.. This movie clip still makes adrenaline rush in my blood!!!
Ikr
Probably because, no matter how many times you watch it, there's still always a feeling that they can escape
At least you've learned that Srebs are bad guys. But certainly not how the SAM actually works..
@@djordjebulajic4637 right....
I with you buddy.
I somehow find it hard to believe that guided missiles behave in that manner, but it was a fricking awesome movie scene!
Yeah, the missiles had way too much fuel, but they did it so that the missiles could pull off these acrobatic moves. Heat seekers chase, but that's also why their short range. Radar guided plot intercept vectors instead of attempting to chase the target.
Somewhere in these comments is an explanation of how a missile would not/could not do this stuff. Whatever, my sphincter tightens EVERY time I see this no matter how many times. *Second missile in the air* gives me heart palpitations.
Missiles only work that way in the movies😮
The ejection sequence was beautiful art
I don't care what other says, this was one of best movie scene ever produced by Hollywood. Kudos
Sin lugar a duda y además la gran capacidad de estrategia de combate que tenía el ejército serbio bosnio es admirable contra un montón de tecnología inimaginable se impuso en el este de Europa escondiendo sus misiles y equipos de tal manera que jamás pudieron ser hallados por la otan Lamentablemente para Estados Unidos y la otan haber subestimado a su rival fue su desgracia en los balcanes esto también es un gran testimonio del Arsenal y equipamiento del Antiguo Unión soviética que a pesar de ser desfasado por antigüedad sigue siendo uno de los equipos más temibles a tener en cuenta lo que hace que Rusia en ingeniería armamentística y misiles sea un rival a temer lo que hace que Rusia sea un rival a tomarse en serio en una eventual guerra Tanto Napoleón Bonaparte como adolf Hitler dan testimonio de ello
Most deff.
@@sagitario854 man, foram dezimados pela OTAN
@@sagitario854deixa de ser passional, cheio de viés
Ok
This scene really conveys the fear and the "time slows down" when something unexpected happens.
I've had it happen during a car accident. Surreal.
@@Jon-es-i6o I had time to have many thoughts and yeah, one of them was that I knew the crash was inevitable lol.
I had it happen when i got diarrhea after taco bell
I experienced this a couple years back when I was trying to beat my record up to the top of a couple peaks on hiking trails and back down. On the way back down I was running with my feet low to the ground due to the nature of the terrain. The ball of my right foot just barely skimmed a small rock on the ground, just enough to keep my right leg from moving forward for the next step. My body plunged forward like a meteor about to impact the Earth. I knew I was going to plow face-first into the ground and rocks going downhill. Before I did, it seemed like time stopped, and I had all sorts of time to imagine that I would break bones and need an ambulance ride. It was surreal. Then I hit. BOOM. My stuff flew in all different directions, phone, hat, shades, water bottle... shredded my hands and arms pretty bad, a bit on the face, but that was the worst damage. I carefully moved my body and checked for signs of breakage and found none, so I got up, grabbed my stuff and continued running, breaking my record. The next day I found out I had cracked ribs. That time-slows-down thing is pretty far out.
Yeah, when I saw this scene in theaters I was laughing...
my dad showed me this movie 1st time i was young so young i miss those days i seen this movie multiple times on dvd player.. nostalgia
Very underrated movie. And so cool to see Neko Belic getting work before moving to liberty city.
I'm not sure about it being underrated based on the way they get shot down but...
Hahahah. Thank you. That's very funny.
You American asshole I’ve been waiting for deis. Who let you behind da wheel? I don’t have time to swap insurance details 😂
Yeah, too bad he then killed himself in COD 4:MW.
He was in Bosnia then illegally immigrated to Liberty City
Maybe not the most militarly accurate scenes, but probably one of the greatest movie scenes in military movies.
Really plays on the weird call of duty/Tom Clancy themes and games of the time. Forgot about this era. Really brings back a lot of memories.
You mean the SAMs with unlimited fuel aren’t accurate? Lol still a good movie tho
It doesn’t have to be military accurate, like most watching won’t know, it’s the exciting and adrenaline
@@pzkpfw2310 awesome scene, just like the Sun of All Fears carrier attack! But probably about as realistic too haha
Top Gun Mav asks you to hold it's mic.
20 years later and this scene is still cool as fuck.
20 years later and this scene is so incredibly inaccurate it’s cool as fuck.
@@gapprs84 I don't think anyone thinks this is " accurate" it's obviously not but the visuals are amazing in a day and age with way over use of CGI it's cool to see a scene like that that was not to much CGI and actually had a real f18 flying through most of the scene.
Very cool
This is a highly nonsensical scene. It’s just that it’s very well-made nonsense.
@@warnpassion gosh get over it
This movie rules, and its great to see Owen Wilson explore a role like this. He really kicked ass in this.
Legend has it that that Sam missile landed safely and scored a further 23 kills before the end of the war. It currently works as an instructor at red flag
its a great folk to hang arround.. has so many histories.. he also went to Willy E. Coyote academy
Ok,,,that was funny😅
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First Missile to ever perform an Aerial refuel linkup with a KC-135 mid pursuit lol
I was cheering for Nico the entire movie. He made Adidas track suits and S-200 missiles look so cool.
😂😂😂 He certainly does great film
That is no S-200, but Strela-10.
That’s funny because he really does look like Nico. And the movie was first so the GTA developers must’ve really liked this film.
@@hinomura2001 ano otoko wa skebe dess.
Crazy SerbsCrazy Slaws & Slawic casual..Russian weapon,rakija,music and adidas with balls are dragged on the floors
The scene is 21 years old and still holds up!
So does the movie!
It looks terrible.
eh... the ejection sequence was the coolest part. rest was pretty bad some weird reaction shots. missiles are defeated once they pass you or just go stupid and miss.
Murica wrestling is 50 years old. Also extremely over the top fake. Still people like it i guess. I am more of a topgun 2 fan. Not extremely fake that it feels cringy when you watch it. This feels more like a fantasy comic orso. I am all for a little bit of show and hollywood shit. But when you over do it with so much fantasy crap, it just feels silly and it takes you out of the story concept of really beleaving/getting into the story.
Gets me EVERY single time, man. EVERY single time. "Golden Eagle! Archangel! We have been ENGAGED!" Love that scene! 🔥
I was supposed to see this movie with my father in law. He passed away 2 days before it premiered. We would go see movies like this all of the time. He died in 2002.
I'm sorry for your loss at least you got to spent the time with him before he passed. 🙏 i just came here to admire the SAM missile downing this jet what a deadly little bastard even if it isn't realistic.
thanks for the uplifting comment
When the Lord taketh dem, he take dem .
Where is your real father?
Honestly it's probably better he missed this one. . .
This scene never gets old. So intense, goosebumps every time
Please take out your nostalgia glasses. This scene looks awful.
Better then Top Gun
True. It starts as cool and over time turns into so stupid that it's funny.
But it never gets old.
@@jonnekallu1627 agree. It’s so exaggerated. SAMs don’t have enough fuel onboard to keep up a chase like that but it’s such a well done scene
@@tiburc10 No, lol. It definitely looks better than when I was 12
I think this is one of the best missile fighter plane scenes ever made! I really enjoyed Owen Wilson in this character. Why did he never make more movies like this!
Because he was miscast. He's not an action movie star. (I love this movie, and I have nothing against him)
I thought he was great too. But he’s more of a comedic actor than an action star and Hollywood tends to pigeonhole actors who are really good at a particular type of genre.
Uhh where are the flares? Why did they forget to use flares which they are the heat decoy.
@@neon6826 They used them once but I do find it interesting that the fire ball only effected one missile!
@@neon6826 They used flares at 3:55 when there was only one missile but it obviously didn't work. When the second missile was shot they needed a bigger heat source to decoy.
2:58 Did you know? This guy in the tracksuit is the inspiration behind Niko Bellic, the GTA IV protagonist
They’re identical, I can’t stop seeing Nico Bellic when I look at this character.
@@victorguerra9176 Владимир Машков
Still one of the coolest fighter pilot scenes in movie history. Action packed all the way through.
Edit:
Ya'll couldn't let me have this one thing huh? haha since everyone is so hung up on the "reality" of the scene, here's my updated comment.
"Still one of the coolest, unrealistic fighter pilot scenes in movie history. Action packed all the way through!!"
There ya'll go:)
Now make sure to keep that energy when you watch any superhero movie, car movie, or any movie.
Much love!
Especially when the missiles use the infinate fuel cheat code.
Agreed 👍
It’s cool, but cheesy as hell if you know how SAMs actually work lol.
And 100% unrealistic.
@@snakeinthegrak8969 more like 589%
Might not be 100% realistic but it’s still one of the most exciting fighter scenes ever.
@hardstyle9051% ^^
Mais realista que top gun Maverick, faltam 2 mísseis para essa cena ser mais realista, se eles fossem traçados pelo S300 em baixa altitude como estavam, provavelmente teriam sido abatidos no primeiro míssil
@@Santos79700well not completely. The S-300 is semi-active radar guided so flares and dropping fuel tanks wouldn’t stop it. The only way to defeat SAR guided SAM’s are Chaff, notching, outrunning (unlikely), and hitting the deck to confuse the SAM’s radar. If it was IR guided missiles, there would be no SAM launch warning or track because the IR SAM tracks heat signatures which isn’t detected by a F18C’s RWR. The SAM in the movie is the Strela-10 (SA-13), which is a short range, optical/infrared-guided SAM. Those things are super hard to defeat when in range, which is why SOP is stay outside their range (5nm) and altitude.
Omg the sound effects in this movie (this scene especially) is absolutely amazing! Watching this on a great surround sound home theater is just incredible! Really wish Owen did more movies like this!🥰🤩
The sound of those missiles on the passing shots are hauntingly awesome.
I'm not in the airforce, and I truly aplreciate the ammount of effort with all the camera angles, all of the inner workings of the ejection seats, and normal and natural radio communications.
That SAM tracks like Owen Wilson owed it some money
hahahahaha
And it has infinite fuel capacity.
This scene is amazing even for 2024, so imagine how amazed audience were when they saw this. This is one of my favorite scenes
I saw this in theaters. My blood was bumping and I had straight chills running down my spine. It was loud, it was visceral, you could feel their adrenaline. One of my top 10 memorable moments at the movies.
This film always blows me away. I love the grim depressing color filter and tone and the technical aspects of all the special freeze shots.
The thing about Behind Enemy Lines is that it never aims for anything approaching realism. It's more... expressionistic. Evocative. Everything from this scene to the minefield scene is more about the imagery, the emotions of these concepts like being chased by a missile or running through a minefield. It gets super loosey goosey with how planes work or how mines work but the end result is kinetic and mesmerizing. It's very different to a military film that gets lots of stuff wrong wrong but doesn't do anything interesting with it.
I like your optimism. Good way of looking at it.
The airplane flies, the missile flies, the sky is blue and the trees are green. Realistic enough.
In other words, it's Hollywood bullsh!t. At least everyone knows it's a wet dream fantasy.
Classical American propagandist movie.
@@mauricioprimus2610 If you take it seriously, yes. Hope you caught the "made in USA" on the burning wreck that the editors focussed on at the end of the clip. Haha!
so the missile chase itself isn't very realistic. real sams can track to a degree, but once it misses it misses, its not going to loop back and chase after. that being said the ejection itself is insanely accurate, right down to the explosive rivets blowing out the canopy and the seat itself being pulled back into the booster.
Yup. A more dramatic way of depicting the SAMs would've been to have multiple launchers of different types firing at them from different directions. At first it's SA-13s and SA-9s, which they manage to escape from, before an SA-6 drives them back down low, and then finally we get a shot of some random Serbs with Iglas getting a call that the jet was heading towards them, and they set up, fire, and get the kill-shot with the main characters never even knowing that they were shot at until after one of the missiles blows the tail off.
@@Tank50us The missile that kills you is the one you never see.
it's movie
@@winman1234 it's grammar
Not in 2001 in 2022 though and from a bit before..... A new generation of short range missiles Spyder and Python can do insane shit
1. These are radar guided SAMs, not heat
2. SAMs flying around like they're wire guided with infinite fuel 😂
3. Fuel tanks do not explode when dropped
4. Magical fire ball that finishes the plane? Yeah no.
I gave this 1 Owen Wilson WOOOOOWs out of 5
This movie has everything a great action flick needs. Tension, military hardware, the occasional bit of humour and eastern europeans in stripey tracksuits.
seriously one of the most underrated war/combat movies ever made
Because it's a war most people would rather forget about.
"Wow. I'm behind enemy lines" -Owen Wilson, 2001
Thanks!
Never underestimate a slav in an adidas tracksuit
Adidas has 3 lines,not 2. It's made in Turkey or China 😂
😂
Absolute underrated film
You got it.
garbage unrealistic film
@@annehechesliverdonation9624 chill anne
It doesn't matter how unrealistic and hokey this sequence is, it's still one of the coolest aviation sequences ever put on film. The real flying footage is great, despite the wacky ass shit the missiles are doing lol.
It's called suspension of disbelief, you should try it sometime.
@@NorthThird Its called un-needed suspension, there doesnt need to be 3 mins of spinning around when you can do groundwork better beforehand. Not every scene has to be turned into popcorn.
Couldn't agree more.
@@AndyP998 Yeah exactly Top Gun Maverick does this way better 🤷♂
they're fucking hilarious and remind me of the missiles in the intro sequence from revenge of the sith lmao
The ejection seat firing sequence combined with the known phenomenon of time compression are nice touches to this classic flick.
One of my favourite 7 minutes in a movie ever, brilliant stuff.
That shot of the fighter and the two sams flying past the tree is fucking amazing. I love this movie.
I was lucky enough to watch this in a theater. It was such a glorious scene. Underated movie.
Very lucky.
Can you provide a link to where this movie was " underrated " or is that just something you say for all movies to get " likes " ?
@@ethics3 ??????
Also saw it in theater as a teenager, was in love with fighter jets at the time and this scene was amazing
@@x1bl0odman I think the term you are searching for is " DUHHHHHH "
THE
ABSOLUTE
BEST Missile scene in any movie. DON'T @ me unless you want a 4:11.
Best scene and absolutely brilliant film making, the technical team did a fantastic job.
And after this incident, Harvey Specter decided that flying a Jet was to risky for him...he went to Harvard Lawschool and started his career as a Lawyer at Pearson & Hardman.
Niko Bellic killed him
Phenomenal scene! The music that kicks in when the missile makes contact is perfect!
Yep, just like real life.
This is the movie I grew up watching over and over. Now, I have two Top Guns, but man was this incredible.
This was such a good movie. I wish he had done more like this.
Who knew one of the best military action movies of all time would star Owen Wilson
At 4:11, that shot of him standing in front of the launching missile gave me chills...
3:11 I guess ? Well I wondered too, for him, the guy must deaf with blood running from his ears drums, blind and may be be burning. And other things like shock related wounds but I'm not a medic, simple guess.
Real serbs dont look at explosions
His friends call him Sweaty McSweatface
Seriously though, imagine standing in front of a missed as it launches and not even flinching one bit. Cold blooded.
The pilots were struggling hard enough to avoid that first missile. Launching that second one so nonchalantly just made your heart sink. Once you saw that shot you knew the pilots were fucked.
This movie especially where he disguises as a enemy soldier and walks through the enemy lines was next level
And then the music hits with the rescue helicopter. Pretty epic!
@@namespacestd131 Great music leading up to the helicopter scene, too!
I used to watch this with my dad he passed away 10 years ago I love u papa
When did missiles started chasing aircrafts?
Can you imagine Owen Wilson also made Zoolander in the same year?
Wow
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The attention to detail even in all the chaos is amazing.
I would have loved to have seen Owen like this in Top gun 2, I think him and Cruise would have made the movie even more awesome than it already is.
There are a few comments mentioning Owen Wilson missing from Top Gun 2. I have to say... Top Gun 2 was perfect, but this combination was definitely missing!
There's only one thing I have to say about how good Owen Wilson's acting is in this movie, "Wow".
The most amazing non realistic aircraft shootdown.
I love see the missile lock at their heat signature
The ejection series of event was very realistic.
@@Holret yeah. Never see like that before.
Lol this is the least accurate missile dynamics I’ve ever seen. The missile would’ve not tracked in about 7 cases during the scene. The burn time is way too long, and the missile can’t track and turn to a target behind it. Both missiles would’ve been defeated in the first 5 seconds or they would’ve been shot down.
@@dondelchulia3189 your using logic. This is RUclips. Not allowed here.
@@dondelchulia3189 There are actually AAM (not SAM) that can track even it the target is behind it. Not 100% sure, but I think it's Israeli's Python 5. But yeah, most of the scenes aren't realistic.
As a kid, you cheer for the pilots
As an adult, you are impressed by those missiles' pinpoint accuracy.
Great opening and dramatic closing, a few good sequences in between. The tank blast and loss of hearing scene was cool.
It was a LOUD scene, scared the sh!t outta me 1st time i saw it. Great scene indeed.
Imagine living a time loop watching this scene over and over while your Hooter's girlfriend brings you hot wings and a pitcher full of beer in your birthday.
Then lostasadorespr wakes up with his dick in his hand and realizes that Mom bought him a cup of tea while he thought he was in said time loop...
🤣
The dream.
OMG THAT IS SOME FUNNY SHIT
"Rimmer, get laid. That's an order!"
I wish people understood the difference between a movie and a documentary. Its a movie. Its for entertainment. No, its not accurate. But it is entertaining as hell, so stop picking it apart and enjoy it for what it was designed for.
Lmfao 😀🤣😂 Exactamundo. Nailed it.
If you have a movie set in reality. Then having something so unrealistic.. so unrealistic it's beyond ridiculous.. that ruins the movie for a lot of people.
i did enjoy the small detail of the SAM not actually hitting the plane like most movies portray. that was cool.
The script writers use a trick called suspension of disbelief, but often they take it too far. As an engineer I cringe when I see the scenes where a character, for example, silently crawls in the ductwork through the entire building, easily going around corners, climbing up the risers, manages to open grilles from the inside, and comes out without a speck of dust on him. Not a single turning vane or a volume damper that would block his progress in sight. When I see this the movie is ruined for me, no matter how good it is.
Or take the Die Hard With a Vengeance movie, my favorite pet peeve. The bad guys blow up a subway station as a cover for their attempt to rob the Gold Vault at New York Federal Reserve Bank. Within an hour some dude shows up with a column of dump trucks and heavy equipment and the police just let him waltz in and start disturbing the crime scene, no questions asked. I don't even mention the fact that the vault is hundreds of feet below the subway station and it would take months to tunnel to it through hard Manhattan Schist. That's just not believable.
@@josephveksenfeld5344 It’s not believable to you. To the other 99% of movie goers, it’s more than good enough.
I love the part at 5:54 with the freeze frames with heavy breathing, then the impact and chorus beginning to sing
Always loved how the bad dude launching the missiles was so emotionless. Just another day at the office
Excellent editing, a very well filmed and edited scene that doesn't give you a break... Geniuses of the film industry...GREETINGS FROM ARGENTINA
5:21 that sound though😍😍😍
One of the most underrated F-18 scenes.
An Action packed scene with out Marvel or Transformers....unheard of!
We have The Hulk!
2:37 "Hey Niko! It's Roman. Let's go bowling."
The chaos of this scene is so intense. Amazingly executed.
Literally one of the best, most intense movie scenes in cinema history!!😎
6:20 So when the ejection handle is pulled, all of the aircraft's electronics are fried to prevent the enemy from capturing it?
yes
Second missile firing was badass
Stress level over 9000
Cut back to launcher: here have another
Yeah, if you were dreaming
Track Suit life.
What a persistent SAM. Not even the S400 can hold a candle to this.
Wow
@@ಠ_ಠ-ರ9ಣ w0W
20 years later and that sam missle still has enough fuel for 20 more years
One of the best scenes of all times. I mean the jet is flying and the missiles are following the jet, absolute masterpiece
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Movies really need someone that has actually seen how SAM's are deployed, other than the infinite magic missiles this scene still holds up great. The ejection sequence was a nice touch I forgot about that.
Dude , You are my man , finally someone takes this angle , if this was radar guided , no way it would have gone to fire ball , if it wasn't missile range would very small and manoeuvres would be a lot more easier and realistic than this , the whole missile launch operation is a bit movie styled.
One of the most intense air to air scenes in film history believe it or not
One of the best combat aviation scenes of any movie I've ever watched
I also thought "man this still holds up pretty well even in top gun maverick times" until I paused at 4:54 to discover this rough miniature landscape XD
This movie is sooooo underrated and it’s one of my best I still watch it!!!
My best scene 4:45
Still even today-one of the most intense scenes on film. Love it
The alarms and music my hairs on my arms stand. Perfect mix of opera music combined with the master alarm.
Dad and I started going to the movies together from when I was 7. It was a great father, son bonding time for both of us. I remember watching Behind Enemy Lines at the Majestic Cinema in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with dad. I was 23 at that time. Owen W surprised the both of us with his unexpected departure from comedy and his deep dive into an action flick. Enjoyed the movie and then we both went out and had a few beers before heading home. He passed this June 16th at 82yrs of age. This scene deffo rekindles many cherished memories. I used to share the challenges I was facing from time to time in my life during our special bonding hours. He was always there to listen and to guide me with subtle course corrections! Miss you Appa! I consider myself blessed beyond compare for having born your little boy! Till we meet again dad. Till we meet again!
Those SAMs are relentless! They just don't quit. Owen must have owed them a lot of money for them to chase him for 3 minutes. 😜
This film never get old
Afer to join the military and learn to fly jets and understand how an SA-13 works and how countermeasures work, this scene gets really old.
So brutally unrealistic in almost every conceivable way...yet still so good.
Cause SAM rockets have enough fuel for 5 minutes of hard manouvering, but have difficulties tracking targets that start to climb and get confused easily and switch to focusing on fireballs created when dropped fuel tanks explode... for some reason.
@@EndriuC As a former B-52 EWO, I can confirm that this SAM scene is totally fucking ridiculous! Same with the MANPAD IR (shoulder launched, heat seeking) missile that homes on a dude’s cigarette 50 yards away in the Vin Diesel movie, “XXX.” Both scenes depict SAM flight dynamics so completely contrary to actual real world performance that I just can’t get past them. Still loved both movies, though!
What if it is russian made SAM instead of american made, would it make a difference in performance? Could it do then, things you describe as ridicuolous?
@@Karim-wv4de no
@@nordan00 What is the minimum heat signature required for these missiles?
4:10 Not a f*ckin flinch... I was 10 years old when I watched this great movie with my dad. 20 years... Still believe this take is truly badass.
To say it's the first Owen Wilson movie I've watched, then learned not exactly his typical roles (It reaffirms my philosophy on comedian actors being great drama actors too). This scene (the tension, the fear, the suspense...) gotta be the best one.
Still the best in its own genres
This is why Harvey Specter went from pilot to lawyer.
It makes sense. He needed the money for law school
That clip is one hundred times more brilliant
than the entire two top gun films put together.
Just gotta take a second to thank this movies talent acquisition and costume design teams for giving rise to the bounty hunter.
His look directly inspired the look for Niko Bellic in GTA IV. Rockstar even approached the actor to see if he would voice Niko, but he didn’t want to do it. They ultimately kept the look in and one of gamings most famous characters was born because of this movie
20 Years Later still Goosebumps after Watching this
When I first listened to the Su-34 outmanoeuvring the patriot missile by following Russian ATC directions, I immediately was reminded of this scene.
Even though this not technically accurate, this movie still captured the intensity, pilot strain and exhaustion well.