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If you thought The Recruit was full of surprises, Basic will spin your head around. Assuming that cleverness is its own reward, this military mystery shares many of The Recruit's strengths and weaknesses, offering multi-layered deception as its dramatic raison d'etre. Copping plenty of machismo attitude befitting a semi-effective thriller from Die Hard director John McTiernan, John Travolta stars as an ex-Army Ranger-turned-DEA agent, recruited by an Army investigator (Connie Nielsen) to solve the fratricide of a reviled Sergeant (Samuel L. Jackson) who was allegedly killed while commanding a Special Forces training mission in the hurricane-swept rainforests of Panama. Two survivors (Giovanni Ribisi in a showboat role, and Brian Van Holt) recall the ill-fated mission as the truth unfolds, Rashomon-style, in a series of repetitive flashbacks. Tricky enough to hold one's attention as it grows increasingly irrelevant, Basic is so enamored of its bogus ingenuity that its ultimate twist is a letdown. A second viewing might prove rewarding, if only to confirm that it all holds together. --Jeff Shannon
From The New Yorker
It's time for John Travolta to make another comeback. His latest throwaway performance-as an ex-Army Ranger who investigates a combat mystery-seems as manufactured as his newly buffed-up body. Even worse, he's already made this film; last time, it was called "The General's Daughter." The screenplay, involving a missing squad of Marines, is an exhausting labyrinth, and John McTiernan ("Die Hard") directs with such a whirling frenzy, it's surprising that pieces of his camera aren't embedded in the film. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
If you thought The Recruit was full of surprises, Basic will spin your head around. Assuming that cleverness is its own reward, this military mystery shares many of The Recruit's strengths and weaknesses, offering multi-layered deception as its dramatic raison d'etre. Copping plenty of machismo attitude befitting a semi-effective thriller from Die Hard director John McTiernan, John Travolta stars as an ex-Army Ranger-turned-DEA agent, recruited by an Army investigator (Connie Nielsen) to solve the fratricide of a reviled Sergeant (Samuel L. Jackson) who was allegedly killed while commanding a Special Forces training mission in the hurricane-swept rainforests of Panama. Two survivors (Giovanni Ribisi in a showboat role, and Brian Van Holt) recall the ill-fated mission as the truth unfolds, Rashomon-style, in a series of repetitive flashbacks. Tricky enough to hold one's attention as it grows increasingly irrelevant, Basic is so enamored of its bogus ingenuity that its ultimate twist is a letdown. A second viewing might prove rewarding, if only to confirm that it all holds together. --Jeff Shannon
From The New Yorker
It's time for John Travolta to make another comeback. His latest throwaway performance-as an ex-Army Ranger who investigates a combat mystery-seems as manufactured as his newly buffed-up body. Even worse, he's already made this film; last time, it was called "The General's Daughter." The screenplay, involving a missing squad of Marines, is an exhausting labyrinth, and John McTiernan ("Die Hard") directs with such a whirling frenzy, it's surprising that pieces of his camera aren't embedded in the film. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
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