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Actors: John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Giovanni Ribisi
Directors: John McTiernan
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date: July 8, 2003
Run Time: 99 minutes
ASIN: B00009L1TA
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
Product Description
Dea officer is recruited to investigate the disappearance of a famed us army instructor & a group of cadets on a routine military exercise in the jungles of panama. Deception is their most dangerous weapon. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2005 Starring: Samuel L Jackson Taye Diggs Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R Director: John Mctiernan
Directors: John McTiernan
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date: July 8, 2003
Run Time: 99 minutes
ASIN: B00009L1TA
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
Product Description
Dea officer is recruited to investigate the disappearance of a famed us army instructor & a group of cadets on a routine military exercise in the jungles of panama. Deception is their most dangerous weapon. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/15/2005 Starring: Samuel L Jackson Taye Diggs Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R Director: John Mctiernan
