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John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Giovanni Ribisi

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  read more... )ial Forces trainees on what appears, at first, to have been a routine training exercise during a hurricane in the jungles of Panama. Only two survivors are found, Dunbar, and a badly wounded Kendall, the son of a high-profile Joint Chiefs of Staff official. Neither is willing to cooperate with Capt. Julia Osborne's investigation. So base commander Col. Bill Styles calls in ex-Ranger Hardy, an old friend and a persuasive interrogator. Osborne disapproves of Hardy who is on leave from the D.E.A. after having come under suspicion of accepting bribes from local drug traffickers. She is also uneasy when she learns that Hardy once trained under West and hates him almost as passionately as his current recruits. With time running out, Hardy and Osborne call a temporary, if uneasy, truce. Hardy cajoles a confession out of Dunbar, who claims that Sgt. West and the missing Rangers have been murdered and their bodies blown away by the hurricane. When they later interview Kendall, he confirms that the other Rangers and West are dead. But, in almost every other way, his story contradicts Dunbar's. What happened to West and his Ranger team? And what were they really doing out there in the jungle? As each layer reveals more lies and greater deceptions, Hardy and Osborne inch towards the horrible truth about the fate of the missing Rangers

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  • September 30, 2009
    After 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!
  • July 11, 2009
    An 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)nd explosive performance.
  • September 24, 2007
    sucked.
  • August 30, 2007
    Get it straight...
  • August 26, 2007
    Standard film, mediocre, nothing further, worth one watch or two.
  • December 2, 2009
    fun to watch, but not much else. a lot of plot twists, tho.
  • November 21, 2009
    Had me going right to the end.
    Great job to all, great story, great acting, perfect setting for the story and all put together masterfully.
  • November 11, 2009
    Good thriller, but forgettable.
  • November 3, 2009
    i like twisty turvy who done its
  • October 26, 2009
    Bacana, um envolvente suspense.

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