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- 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 Special 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.
- An Army sergeant takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier killing another and carrying a wounded comrade. As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer protests, but her commanding officer nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting.
- A movie filled with so many twists and turns than the average contortionist, your left baffled in your seat by what you just saw. My friend thought it was anti-American and inapropriate considering the latest events. I thought it was pure entertainment with a few flaws.<br/><br/>Lets see, this movie is about a DEA agent played by Travolta who is called in by base commander Daly to investigate the disappearance and mysterious death of drill seargent Jackson. Or so it appears. And don't forget the crew who have vanished as well. Cop investigator girl Nelson (who by the way pulled off a horrible accent)is determined to break this case and the journey begins with her and Travolta interrogating the two soldiers left standing with their own versions of the story. Very interesting if you can follow along.<br/><br/>Now, I won't give anything away but what helps this story is how its told who's POV your getting. In this case, we get two different versions of the situation but the entire movie is being seen in Connie Nelson's point of view. We're so intrigued with a basic ending but like government, its all a game and in the end, we as the audience get played. <br/><br/>Knock out performances by everyone. Risbi's character was the key performance here,and the new guy who plays the other soldier being interrogated was a winner. Damn, he even looked like a soldier. Diggs did good, the Nunez girl did good. And of course Jackson. Overall, its just really fun to watch. You can wait to see it though.
- ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Was it just me or did the movie Basic make no sense at all? Here's a few points that I have problems with. They say in the movie that he stumbled on the coke, told the colonel, and the colonel tried to have him killed. Thus Hardy (Travolta) comes up with this plan to save him by faking West's death. First of all, the movie gives the impression that "section 8" has been around for quite some time. However the time frame where West alerts the colonel and then goes into the jungle is one week. Now, the section 8 rumor had no reason to exist other than trying to save West. So in the course of one week did they perpetuate this rumor and spread it so well that it became a crucial part of the storyline. Second, why would the colonel specifically ask Hardy to dig deeper after Hardy got enough out of the "interrogation" to cover the colonel's ass and stop any scandal from emerging? If the colonel is trying to keep everything quiet he wouldn't want Hardy, someone he knows and respects for being extremely smart and an excellent interregator, to dig deep and find out the truth. Which leads to the next point. Why would the colonel want Hardy's help in the first place? If all he wants is a cover up to keep things quiet so he can continue smuggling coke, why would he bring in outside help to "get to the bottom of things" especially considering the fact that he could piece together what happened himself? The colonel would have assumed that the guys he sent out to kill West got in a firefight, and only two rangers lived. Finally, at the end of the movie Cpt. Osborne is offered a job. What kind of job is she offered? Section 8 doesn't really run drugs. They're the good guys, right? So what exactly kind of job is she being offered?
- Falls flat on two fronts: It's neither deep and interesting enough to be a brainteaser nor sufficiently thrilling to count as a mindless diversion.
- In order to understand the drug operation in this movie, we must first take a look at the people involved:<br/><br/><ul><li>Vilmer: Supplied the drugs, named "Combat Cocktails", to soldiers such as Mueller and Kendall. He was also running an operation with a partner, probably Colonel Styles, to smuggle cocaine in military shipments into the United States.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Kendall: Distributed drugs for Vilmer, and was supposedly hired by Col. Styles to kill Sgt. West.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Mueller: Distributed drugs for Vilmer, and was supposedly hired by Col. Styles to kill Sgt. West.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>West: Found out about the drug operation 1 week prior to the events in the movie, and went to inform Col. Styles about the discovery. Because of Col. Styles' inaction and potential threat to his safety, Sgt. West arranged the training mission in order to preemptively eliminate Kendall and Mueller.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Col. Styles: Covered Vilmer's drug operation in order to make millions of dollars from the drug operation.</li></ul><br/><br/>Sgt. West found out that Vilmer was running a drug trafficking operation out of the hospital, and he also found out that Kendall and Mueller were involved in the operation. Not knowing that Col. Styles was involved in the operation, Sgt. West approached him to reveal the drug operation. After some time, the inaction of Col. Styles arose suspicion . Sgt West also suspected that Mueller and Kendall would be ordered to kill him. <br/><br/>Sgt. West then arranges the training exercise in order to confront or eliminate Mueller and Kendall. There is no definitive answer to this question, however there are several possibilities:<br/><br/>1. The Section 8 team needed conclusive proof that Col. Styles was behind the drug operation. So far, Sgt. West and Hardy probably only had suspicions.<br/><br/>2. Dunbar (Brian Van Holt) might have been sent back to base in order to create a cover story for the disappearance of the other team members. a5c7b9f00b
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