Agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army Ranger Drill Sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

They disobey and interrogate Kendall once more, but he suddenly begins vomiting blood. They explain that Section 8 is a covert black-ops anti-drug unit led by Colonel Tom Hardy; the "insane mercenary" story is a cover to spook the cartels.

I know this movie is old, but I watch it every 6 months because it is so good. Hardy explains a rumor about a group of ex-Rangers in Panama calling themselves "Section 8".

There's lots better out there; has to be. But, in almost every other way, his story contradicts Dunbar's. He claims West died when hit in the back with a phosphorus grenade. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting. Basic (2003) Plot. Pike took Dunbar's dog tags and carried Kendall to the extraction point.

They apparently trained under West, turned rogue and became drug dealers. BASIC INSTINCT. After confessing to the crime, Vilmer is placed under arrest. |

A helicopter circles over the Panamanian jungle.

"Just Gotta Tell The Story Right"...Travolta and Jackson at their usual best, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2016.

Connie Nielsen is a favorite of mine, but here she overacts. The film received a rating of 21% from the critics aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes, with the critics' consensus: "Basic gets so needlessly convoluted in its plot twists that the viewer eventually loses interest. 2:19. Before dying, he draws an '8' with his own blood on Osborne's hand. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Styles is furious; he relieves Osborne of duty and tells Hardy to leave. Just log on to your Verizon account and watch the latest shows online. As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger.

The two men are pursued by Sergeant Mueller, whom Dunbar kills in self-defense.

Showing all 4 items Jump to: Summaries (3) Synopsis (1) ... Kendall on his back through the jungle, exchanged fire with Mueller, and was picked up, as seen in the beginning of the movie. He considers the investigation closed and a CID transport from Washington arrives to take Vilmer and Dunbar away.

The training mission became a covert Section 8 operation to circumvent Mueller and Kendall and fake West's death in order to extract West from leadership and transfer him back to Section 8.

An agent from the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) is brought in to investigate the disappearances of several Army Ranger cadets and their legendary instructor during an exercise at a basic training camp in Louisiana. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2020. after having come under suspicion of accepting bribes from local drug traffickers. This was a pleasure to see again. A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive novelist could be involved. West, not realizing Styles was also involved, informed him of the drug dealing.

Neither is willing to cooperate with Capt.

On board is a team of Army Ranger trainees and their instructor, Master Sergeant Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson). I almost needed to take notes to figure out what was really going on, probably should have, but it didn't matter anyway after seeing the ending. A firefight broke out and several trainees were killed. Samuel L. Jackson as Sergeant Nathan West and his squad of Rangers disappear during a training mission in Panama. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

What happened to West and his Ranger team?

In the end, after some thousand or so plot twists the end scene is just stupid because there were so many twists that the writers clearly gave up and said "screw it, just negate every single moment prior to this and call it a wrap.

Basic is a very good conspiracy film with plenty of twists and turns as each survivor tells a story, with flashbacks of each soldiers story unfolding.

Parents Guide. During a live fire exercise in the jungles of Panama, a team of Army Rangers trainees are led by Master Sergeant Nathan West. Hardy was called in to confirm Styles' and Vilmer's involvement. Dunbar refuses to talk to Military Police investigator Captain Julia Osborne and insists on speaking to a fellow Ranger from outside the base, drawing an '8' on a piece of paper. She follows them into Panama City, where they enter a bar with a big eight-ball hanging above. | Lots of crude language. It is the second collaboration of Travolta and Jackson, following 1994's Pulp Fiction .

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier killing another and carrying a wounded comrade. Travolta and Jackson are a pair ... again ... same chemistry that made Pulp Fiction. Giovanni Ribisi doubles down on the overacting.

Dunbar claims that Dr. Peter Vilmer supplied the drugs and falsified drug tests so that soldiers came out clean. Julia Osborne's investigation.

After a brief firefight, West and the other trainees were killed.

Yes, the plot is very twisty, so careful attention is required.

When they later interview Kendall, he confirms that the other Rangers and West are dead. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.

Osborne disapproves of Hardy who is on leave from the D.E.A. 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.
Travolta and Jackson are terrific separately and together in this movie.

[2], Reviews were mostly negative. ", Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2020.

SLJ plays such a great role in this movie.

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020, This could have been a decent mystery if the writers didn't think they needed to take a ball of yarn plot and give it to a dozen kittens to snarl it up. Connie Nielson is however on top form and helps move the plot along.

The post commander Colonel Bill Styles calls in his friend: experienced interrogator, ex-Ranger and now DEA agent Tom Hardy, and assigns him to aid Osborne. Then there's the non sequitur ending which leaves you feeling cheated. As each layer reveals more lies and greater deceptions, Hardy and Osborne inch towards the horrible truth about the fate of the missing Rangers. Not much use is made of Samuel Jackson and Travolta plays the lead in a manner not dissimilar to the role he played in The General's Daughter. When Pike confessed to the crime, Dunbar wanted to turn him in; a firefight ensued and most of the trainees were killed. | The movie earned $11.5 million in its opening weekend, ranking behind Head of State, Bringing Down the House, and The Core. R. 2h 8m. She is also uneasy when she learns that Hardy once trained under West and hates him almost as passionately as his current recruits. The plot itself is predictable at times and confusingly complex at others. Agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army Ranger Drill Sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry. Drama. The investigating officer protests, but her commanding officer nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent to help. He confronted the Rangers and threatened to turn them in to authorities. If I were to see it again and again, I might be able to extract an underlying logic from it, but the problem is, when a movie's not worth seeing twice, it had better get the job done the first time through".
John Travolta leads an all star cast comprising of Samuel L Jackson, Connie Nielsen and Giovanni Ribisi.

New Official Movies Trailer. DIRECTOR . Their objective is to move through the jungle in hurricane weather, use live ammo to hit pop-up metal targets, then rendezvous at a small bunker. Many scenes are too dark, too shaky, too obscured by rain, or explosions or anything else to cover up that nothing much is happening.

So base commander Col. Bill Styles calls in ex-Ranger Hardy, an old friend and a persuasive interrogator.

With time running out, Hardy and Osborne call a temporary, if uneasy, truce. And what were they really doing out there in the jungle? Tom Hardy (Travolta), is a ex Army Ranger turned DEA agent who is called back to his old base as a favour to an old Army buddy. Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018.

It was almost like he was doing this movie because he was politically forced to; meaning he seems to have put up his best effort but just didn't quite come through like the other characters. The ending is a kick in the brain, almost literally.

A D.E.A. The acting is excellent, the story takes many twists trying to figure out 'who done it'. His task to investigate the apparent wipe out of a ranger team during a hurricane hit training exercise in Panama, with bullets not wind being the causes of death.

It grossed $26,793,311 in the US by the end of its theatrical run. Plot Keywords He then gives Hardy, Osborne, and Styles the number of a crate where Vilmer had stowed cocaine. Taglines

Styles orders Osborne and Hardy not to talk to Kendall again.

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