Basic (2003)
poster Basic
IMDb Rating:
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6.5/10 (49490 votes)

Country:Germany, 98 minutes

Spoken Languages:English

Genres:Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director(s):John McTiernan

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 258

Storyline:
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 ...

Cast:

photo John Travolta
John Travolta Hardy
photo Connie Nielsen
Connie Nielsen Osborne
photo Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson West
photo Tim Daly
Tim Daly Styles
photo Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi Kendall
photo Brian Van Holt
Brian Van Holt Dunbar

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1