Maverick DEA Agent Tom Hardy investigates the disappearance of a fearsome sergeant and his Special Forces trainees.
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- stuhannaford2 March 2026For a film titled 'Basic', its storyline is anything but, in terms of trying to follow what on Earth is going on. It's a murder mystery in a jungle setting, with a long list of names of characters that you have no investment in, nor idea who is who. I'm not overly sure what the initial plot setting is to be perfectly honest. And then to top that element of confusion off, the writers clearly decided that if one twist is good, and a second is great... why not do ten, eleven, twelve? A complete and utter, incoherent mess. Even when you think they have twisted themselves out, and the final, final reveal is offered up... they turn the story on its head again... and then again for good measure. Zero chemistry from the two leads and the less said about Ribisi's odd accent the better.
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Basic was released on 28 March 2003.
Basic was directed by John McTiernan.
Basic has a runtime of 1h 38m.
Basic was produced by Mike Medavoy, James Vanderbilt, Arnold Messer, Michael Tadross.
Maverick DEA Agent Tom Hardy investigates the disappearance of a fearsome sergeant and his Special Forces trainees.
The key characters in Basic are DEA Agent Tom Hardy (John Travolta), CPT Julie Osborne (Connie Nielsen), Drill Sgt. SFC Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson).
Basic is rated 15.
Basic is a Drama, Action, Mystery film.
Basic has an audience rating of 6.2 out of 10.
Basic had a budget of US$50M.
Basic has made US$42.8M at the box office.