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Basic (2003)
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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...
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Basic Movie Review by Tim  (12/19/2006) |
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Basic was a box office failure bringing in only $26,793,311 at the US box office. I have not met many people that were a fan of this movie but I have a lot of good things to say about it.
The story is about some army rangers on a training exercise that end up being involved in the murder of their Sergeant. A couple of...
(complete Basic review by Tim)
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