John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson
Tom Hardy, an ex-Army Ranger turned DEA agent, is drawn into an ever-widening mystery surrounding the disappearance of the feared and often hated Sgt. Nathan West, as well as several of his elite Spec...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 8, 2003
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September 30, 2009After dishing out twist after twist, many of which are predictable, this film saves the best till last! Very engrossing and unpredictable (as it turns out), this is a top thriller!
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July 11, 2009An intense and hard-boiled thriller. An edge of your seat ride with suspense and surprises that you will never see coming. You'll be guessing right till the very end. A gripping, electrifying, sensational, pulse-pounding and action-packed mystery. John Travolta gives an awsome a...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
April 10, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
March 28, 2003
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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 k... full review
March 28, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
By the end, I wanted to do cruel and vicious things to the screenplay. full review
March 28, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
The latest example of a thriller in which the beginning and the end make at least a tiny bit of sense, but the connecting stuff in between is just an inscrutable muddle of dumb twists, red herrings an... full review
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