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Basic
2003 1h 38m R
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6.4
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A D.E.A. 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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Directed By
John McTiernan
Written By
James Vanderbilt
Studio
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Cast of Basic
John Travolta
Hardy
Connie Nielsen
Osborne
Samuel L. Jackson
West
Giovanni Ribisi
Kendall
Brian Van Holt
Dunbar
Dash Mihok
Mueller
Taye Diggs
Pike
Roselyn Sánchez
Nunez
Tim Daly
Styles
Cristián de la Fuente
Castro
Harry Connick Jr.
Vilmer
Nick Loren
Helicopter Pilot
Cliff Fleming
Helicopter Pilot
Margaret Travolta
Nurse #1
Chris Byrne
MP
Jonathan Rau
G.I. on the Tarmac
Tait Ruppert
Jeep Driver
Curtis Ricks
MP
Dena Johnston
Nurse #2
Georgia Hausserman
Pilot
Steven Maye
CID Officer
Timothy S. Wester
Doctor
Charles L. Fails
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Basic Reviews
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Artificial, manufactured and devoid of credibility.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The plot twists, reversals, false accounts, unreliable narrators and conflicting testimonies that make up the story of Basic are just not worth revisiting, unless one wants to tie one's brain into a knot for no discernible reward.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
You can fall asleep in the first reel, wake up at the end, and know as much as anyone else.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Made up of remnants from other, better films.
Seattle Times
Erik Lundegaard
There are so many shifts, so many 'Gotcha!' moments, so many characters who are 'not what they appear to be' that, by the final twist, you've stopped caring.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Basic is too busy changing rules and strutting its cleverness.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It begins in a muddle and ends in confusion.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Granted, it's not Rollerball, and that in itself could be considered a small blessing. Unfortunately, it's only a small one, but I guess I shouldn't be too picky.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Basically bad and sorry attempt at a thriller.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
The meat of the picture -- the contradictory flashback sequences -- are staged so haphazardly that the audience has no incentive to pay close attention.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director John McTiernan does a swell job with James Vanderbilt's sneaky script in keeping us guessing.
Village Voice
Ed Park
Nothing is as it appears, except the fact that nothing is as it appears.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[Basic] had a great sense of itself and it had a lot of fun taking us from one corner to the next and then spinning us around until we got dizzy and didn't know where we were. I like that.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Rudolph
There's some magic on display worthy of the great Houdini--in scene after scene, logic and reason vanish before our very eyes with a well-timed poof!
Denver Post
Vic Vogler
John Travolta is having fun -- a lot of it -- and that may be all the reason you need to wedge Basic into your post-Oscars film schedule.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie is just too busy to be suspenseful.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
By the end, I wanted to do cruel and vicious things to the screenplay.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Entertainment more suitable for the living room than the movie theater.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Chases its tail for so long, it morphs from a whodunit into a who-cares.
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