Basic
- Director: John McTiernan
- Writer: James Vanderbilt
- Producer: Moritz Borman; Anson Downes
CGiii Comment
Mindless entertainment - that's all it is, don't think, just escape.
Villainous homos...nasty creatures.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
John Travolta as Hardy;
Connie Nielsen as Osborne;
Samuel L. Jackson as West;
Tim Daly as Styles;
Giovanni Ribisi as Kendall;
Brian Van Holt as Dunbar;
Taye Diggs as Pike;
Dash Mihok as Mueller;
Cristian de la Fuente as Castro;
Roselyn Sanchez as Nunez;
Harry Connick Jr. as Vilmer;
Georgia Hausserman as Pilot;
Margaret Travolta as Nurse #1;
Dena Johnston as Nurse #2;
Nick Loren as Helicopter Pilot