Basic

    Basic
    2003

    Synopsis

    A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

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    Cast

    • John TravoltaDEA Agent Tom Hardy
    • Connie NielsenCapt. Julia Osborne
    • Samuel L. JacksonSgt. Nathan West
    • Giovanni RibisiLevi Kendall
    • Brian Van HoltRaymond Dunbar
    • Dash MihokMueller
    • Taye DiggsJay Pike
    • Roselyn SánchezNunez
    • Tim DalyCol. Bill Styles
    • Cristián de la FuenteCastro

    Recommendations

    • 58

      Portland Oregonian

      Basic essentially is a fun movie, surprise ending and all. To take it too seriously is to miss the point. Travolta is charming, his performance recapturing the old charisma.
    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Just not worth revisiting, unless one wants to tie one's brain into a knot for no discernible reward.
    • 50

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      Basically, it's a muddle.
    • 50

      USA Today

      The tepid result is like "Courage Under Fire" without the compelling Meg Ryan angle, or Travolta's 1999 "The General's Daughter" without the sexual squalor. It all feels a little moldy.
    • 40

      TV Guide Magazine

      As the mismatched interrogators, Travolta and Nielson seem to be in two different and incompatible movies.
    • 38

      Charlotte Observer

      When the film stumbles to its last and silliest conclusion, you realize much of the plot line was unnecessary -- or couldn't have happened at all!
    • 38

      New York Daily News

      Travolta is the least of the film's problems. With a script by James Vanderbilt, whose first credit was for a movie about the tooth fairy ("Darkness Falls"), and directed by John McTiernan, last seen struggling with "Rollerball," Basic is a fundamental failure.
    • 38

      Boston Globe

      Falls flat on two fronts: It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.

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