History YMMV / BehindEnemyLines

* WTHCastingAgency: Owen Wilson, who usually plays the platonic ideal of a laid-back everyman, as a military action hero? This becomes less surprising when one considers that Wilson attended a military junior college, but whether that makes him ''believable'' in the role of a military character is up to the individual viewer (though for what it's worth, his character isn't a battle-hardened badass from the get-go, but rather a logistics man [[ActionSurvivor forced into badassery]]).

* WTHCastingAgency: Owen Wilson, who usually plays the platonic ideal of a laid-back everyman, as a military action hero? This becomes less surprising when one considers that Wilson attended a military junior college, but whether that makes him ''believable'' in the role of a military character is up to the individual viewer.

** Partly justified in that he was actively trying to stop any attempt at rescuing Bernet. After all, he knew about the mass graves, and more importantly, knew that Bernet saw them, and had photographic evidence of them. If Bernet, and more importantly, the photos made it to a tribunal, his head would be in the noose right next to his [[TheDragon Dragon]].
* WTHCastingAgency: Seriously, ''Owen Wilson'' of all people playing an action hero? However, this becomes less surprising when one considers that Wilson went to a military junior college. Whether that makes him ''believable'' in the role of a military character, however, is up to the individual viewer.

* AcceptableTargets: While Bosniaks are shown as sympathetic oppressed people, the Bosnian Serbs are portrayed as immoral evil-intentioned war criminals by default.

* ToughActToFollow: Many of Moore's films [[Film/TheOmen2006 after this one]] [[Film/MaxPayne doesn't do]] [[Film/AGoodDayToDieHard well with critics]].

* WTHCastingAgency: Seriously, ''Owen Wilson'' of all people playing an action hero?

** [[TropesAreNotBad And he pulls it off pretty well!]]

* SoBadItsGood: All four films.

* {{Fanon}}: Many people believe ColdSniper Sasha is really Nico Bellic from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' since both are efficient Serb killers participating in the Yugoslav Wars with a strong resemblance to each other.

* {{Fanon}}: Many people believe ColdSniper Sasha is really Nico Bellic from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' since both are efficient Serbian killers participating in the Yugoslav Wars with a strong resemblance to each other.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Most of the exteriors were actually filmed in more remote parts of {{UsefulNotes/Slovakia}} instead of Bosnia. Most of the supposedly Serbian military vehicles were lent for shooting by the Slovak Army [[IKnowThatGun and disguised a bit to look more like 90s ex-Yugoslav hardware]].
** ''Axis of Evil'' was filmed entirely in Bulgaria. Thus, the so-called North Korean troops [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary use Bulgarian uniforms and weaponry]].
*** Even some of the [=SEALs=] in the movie use Eastern Bloc weaponry, though mocked up to look like NATO weapons.

*** Even some of the SEALs in the movie use Eastern Bloc weaponry, though mocked up to look like [=SEALs=] weapons.

* {{Fanon}}: Many people believe ColdSniper Sasha is really Nico Bellic from GrandTheftAutoIV since both are efficient Serbian killers participating in the Yugoslav Wars with a strong resemblance to each other.

* HilariousInHindsight: The ColdSniper Sasha bears a strong resemblance to the protagonist Niko Bellic from GrandTheftAutoIV. Both are also participants in the Yugoslav wars and are ethnic Serbs.

* WTHCastingAgency: Seriously, ''Owen Wilson'' of all people playing an action hero?

* WTHCastingAgency: Owen Wilson playing an action hero.

** Partly justified in that he was actively trying to stop any attempt at rescuing Bernet. After all, he knew about the mass graves, and more importantly, knew that Bernet saw them, and had photographic evidence of them. If Bernet, and more importantly, the photos made it to a tribunal, his head would be in the noose right next to his [[TheDragon Dragon]].

* SoBadItsGood: All three films.

* ToughActToFollow: Many of Moore's films [[Film/TheOmen after this one]] [[Film/MaxPayne doesn't do]] [[Film/AGoodDayToDieHard well with critics]].

* WhatAnIdiot: Admiral Piquet claims he "doesn't know the difference" between the Serb, Croat and Muslim uniforms though he's been stationed in the area for five years. Only a dunce would fail to know that Serbs use the Cyrillic alphabet to represent Serbo-Croatian, while Croats use the Latin, and Bosnian Muslims can use either but lean to using Latin. As a result, one glance at a uniform patch[[note]]The flags of the three nations are also different; Croats use a different red/white/blue coloring order than Serbs, and the Bosnian government itself used a kind of fleur-de-lis until the Dayton Accords and UN oversight forced the choice of a new flag not rooted in any of the three constituent nations' history[[/note]] or a vehicle (which, in the movie at least, the Serbs seem fond of liberally painting names onto) would have at least distinguished the Bosnian Serbs (or Serb irregular forces).

* WhatAnIdiot: Admiral Paquet claims he "doesn't know the difference" between the Serb, Croat and Muslim uniforms though he's been stationed in the area for five years. Only a dunce would fail to know that Serbs use the Cyrillic alphabet to represent Serbo-Croatian, while Croats use the Latin, and Bosnian Muslims can use either but lean to using Latin. As a result, one glance at a uniform patch[[note]]The flags of the three nations are also different; Croats use a different red/white/blue coloring order than Serbs, and the Bosnian government itself used a kind of fleur-de-lis until the Dayton Accords and UN oversight forced the choice of a new flag not rooted in any of the three constituent nations' history[[/note]] or a vehicle (which, in the movie at least, the Serbs seem fond of liberally painting names onto) would have at least distinguished the Bosnian Serbs (or Serb irregular forces).

* WhatAnIdiot: Admiral Paquet claims he "doesn't know the difference" between the Serb, Croat and Muslim uniforms though he's been stationed in the area for five years. Only a dunce would fail to know that Serbs use the Cyrillic alphabet to represent Serbo-Croatian, while Croats use the Latin, and Bosnian Muslims can use either but lean to using Latin. As a result, one glance at a uniform patch or a vehicle (which, in the movie at least, the Serbs seem fond of liberally painting names onto) would have at least distinguished the Bosnian Serbs (or Serb irregular forces).

* SoBadItsGood: All three films.

* SoBadItsGood