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A DEA Agent, Tom Hardy is called in to help a Captain investigate the disappearance of a Sergeant and his elite team which was on exercise in the Panama jungle. Two survivors have been found but neither is anxious to explain what has happened.

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EAN7321901953121

eBay Product ID (ePID)30048823

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleBasic

ActorBrian Van Holt, Samuel L. Jackson, Timothy Daly, Connie Nielsen, John Travolta

DirectorJohn McTiernan

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

FormatDVD

Release Year2004

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesDirectors Commentary\A Writers Perspective\Directors Design\Trailers\Tv and Radio Spots, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen

GenreThriller, General

Run Time98 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

ReviewsDaily Mirror - A rumble in the jungle I can thoroughly recommend.

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Additional InformationJohn Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson team up in BASIC, an action-packed military thriller from director John McTiernan (DIE HARD). Jackson plays Sergeant Nathan West, propagator of a harsh military training programme that appears to have pushed a group of young recruits too far, when an exercise winds up with them attempting to kill each other. Only two soldiers emerge alive from the slaughter, and Jackson isn't among them. Rogue DEA agent Tom Hardy (Travolta) is called in to question the survivors, teaming up with Lieutenant Julia Osbourne (Connie Nielsen), in an attempt to solve the puzzle.<BR>The two remaining soldiers (played by Giovanni Ribisi and Brian Van Holt) tell their conflicting tales, with director McTiernan utilising flashbacks to illustrate what may have happened in the Panama jungle. It quickly transpires that Jackson and Travolta's characters are old army acquaintances, both with a penchant for unorthodox techniques; and when it transpires that corrupt doctor Bill Styles (Harry Connick Jr.) has been selling the recruits illegal drugs, it also appears he has a romantic history with Nielsen's character. The subsequent plot twists come thick and fast, resulting in a white-knuckle ride to the finale, in which nothing can be taken for granted.

Movie/TV TitleBasic