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Release Date:
30 November 2001 (USA)
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Tagline:
In War There Are Some Lines You Should Never Cross. more
Plot:
A Navy navigator is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him. full summary | add synopsis
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Rescue
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Navy
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Navigator
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Reconnaissance
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Mine Field
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Awards:
1 win
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2 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(36 articles)
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'Queen & Country': All the single action heroines get your hands up
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(From Slash Film. 21 November 2009, 1:39 PM, PST)
'Queen & Country': All the single action heroines get your hands up
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 24 August 2009, 9:21 AM, PDT)
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A superb and touching action film...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Owen Wilson | ... | Lt. Chris Burnett |
 | Gene Hackman | ... | Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart |
 | Gabriel Macht | ... | Stackhouse |
 | Charles Malik Whitfield | ... | Capt. Rodway, USMC |
 | David Keith | ... | Master Chief Tom O'Malley |
 | Olek Krupa | ... | Miroslav Lokar |
 | Joaquim de Almeida | ... | Admiral Piquet (as Joaquim De Almeida) |
 | Vladimir Mashkov | ... | Sasha |
| Marko Igonda | ... | Bazda |
 | Eyal Podell | ... | Petty Officer Kennedy |
| Geoffrey Pierson | ... | Admiral Donnelly (as Geoff Pierson) |
| Aernout Van Lynden | ... | Aernout Van Lynden |
 | Sam Jaeger | ... | Red Crown Operator #1 |
 | Shane Johnson | ... | Red Crown Operator #2 (as Shane Mikael Johnson) |
| Don Winston | ... | Red Crown Operator #3 |
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for war violence and some language.
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106 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Malaysia:U |
Portugal:M/12 |
Australia:MA (DVD rating) |
UK:12 |
South Korea:12 |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) |
Denmark:15 |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Australia:M (original rating) |
Ireland:12 |
Ireland:15 (DVD/VHS release) |
UK:15 (DVD/VHS release) |
Argentina:13 |
Brazil:12 |
Finland:K-15 |
France:U |
Germany:16 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Hungary:14 |
Netherlands:12 |
New Zealand:R13 |
Norway:15 |
Peru:14 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #38516) |
Iceland:16
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Trivia:
Branko Tomovic was considered for the role of Bazda.
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Continuity: In the scene when Burnett is walking through the mine field between the buildings, he is hit by several mine blasts at fairly close range. The first blast killed the enemy soldier at nearly the same range and with only one blast.
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Quotes:
Capt. Rodway, USMC:
We each have our jobs. Now I'm a Marine. That means I do the serious work. You're a Navy Pilot. That means that you sit here and... eat jello.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) (VG)
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Soundtrack:
That's all right
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These are my first comments here on Imdb, although I've rated dozens of films. I usually don't do this, since I think there are much more competent people out there than myself. This is a rare exception, since this particular film depicts events which recently took place in my country and some neighboring ones. Furthermore, the majority of the cast is from several Slavic countries, mine included (Croatia).
All in all I liked the film very much. I gave it 8/10. The action sequences and visual effects are superb. The American cast is average, but good. However, it's the other cast that really excels. The 2 factions in the war-torn Bosnia are depicted superbly. Especially the "bad guys". To be able to appreciate this to the full extent, unfortunately, you'd have to live here for some time and get to know the mentality of the Balkan peoples. I've seen the DVD edition, which is excellent in itself and remember a director's commentary on their choice of cast. He said that they chose Slavic actors because they would never get the same character expression with American ones. That is perfectly true. Not because ones are better in acting than the others, but it's the question of the underlining mentality. It's very difficult for people brought up in countries which have known democratic societies for many generations to imagine how it is to be surrounded by such atrocities in a relatively small geographic area and all happening at the turn of the millennium. The mixture is very strange and produces some bizarre situations, saturated with dark humor. Like the scene where the American pilot asks Bosnian teenagers for some water, and they give him Coke instead. Or where children routinely cross over anti-personnel mines. Similar situations really did occur many times in such a surrounding.
My point is that the film does get superficial and even shallow sometimes, but in all the director and the crew did a terrific job seen from the point of view I'd just explained. Even the character lines (in perfect local dialect) are so real that my wife and I forgot it's an American film when we watched it... Indeed a rare combination of great action sequences and touching scenes in a local warfare.