MOVIE - BASIC - Review Rating $$$$$ $ (OUT OF 10)
STARRING-John Travolta (Tom Hardy), Connie Nielsen (Lt. Osborne), Samuel L. Jackson (Sgt. West), Tim Daly (Chief Warrant Officer Wilmer), Giovanni Ribisi (Levi), Taye Diggs, Brian Van Holt, Roselyn Sanchez & Harry Connick Jr.
DIRECTOR - John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard, The Thomas Crown Affair,
The Hunt for Red October)
A DEA Agent, and former Army Ranger, is brought into investigate an Army Ranger training mission that goes terribly wrong.
Basic is far from original but it does succeed at its basic mission of being entertaining. There's some humour, decent acting, and the requisite number of plot twists required of movies of this type. Some of the plot twists verge on the ridiculous and others rely on hiding vital information from the viewer to succeed.
Travolta and Jackson, teaming up for the first time since Pulp Fiction, do a good job with their respective roles. Travolta hams it up a bit at times, in a nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more fashion, but the performance still works because both he and the audience know this isn't a film meant to be taken seriously.
Basic is one of those films, if your in the right frame of mind, that can be entertaining while watching it and completely forgotten about before the credits finish rolling.
Running time - 95 minutes
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