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Basic
Directed by
John McTiernan
R
2003
1h 38m
Drama
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6.4
21%
62%
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Maverick DEA Agent Tom Hardy investigates the disappearance of a fearsome sergeant and his Special Forces trainees.
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Cast of Basic
John Travolta
DEA Agent Tom Hardy
Connie Nielsen
CPT Julie Osborne
Samuel L. Jackson
Drill Sgt. SFC Nathan West
Tim Daly
COL Bill Styles
Giovanni Ribisi
2LT Levi Kendall
Brian Van Holt
SGT Ray Dunbar
Taye Diggs
Pike
Dash Mihok
SGT Mueller
Cristián de la Fuente
Castro
Roselyn Sánchez
Nuñez
Harry Connick Jr.
Dr. Pete Vilmer
Margaret Travolta
Nurse #1
Dena Johnston
Nurse #2
Nick Loren
Helicopter Pilot
Cliff Fleming
Helicopter Pilot
Steven Maye
CID Officer
Jonathan Rau
G.I. on the Tarmac
Tait Ruppert
Jeep Driver
Timothy S. Wester
Doctor
Chris Byrne
MP
Curtis Ricks
MP
Charles L. Fails
MP
John McTiernan
Director
James Vanderbilt
Writer / Producer
Mike Medavoy
Producer
Michael Tadross
Producer
Arnold Messer
Producer
Basic Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Basically bad and sorry attempt at a thriller.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director John McTiernan does a swell job with James Vanderbilt's sneaky script in keeping us guessing.
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.
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.
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.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Made up of remnants from other, better films.
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.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
It begins in a muddle and ends in confusion.
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!
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.
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.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Artificial, manufactured and devoid of credibility.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Basic is too busy changing rules and strutting its cleverness.
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.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.
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.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Chases its tail for so long, it morphs from a whodunit into a who-cares.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Entertainment more suitable for the living room than the movie theater.
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