FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Basic
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer21%as of 2021-10-10
- Rotten Tomatoes average4.5/10as of 2021-10-10
- Metacritic34/100as of 2024-03-02
What it is
Basic is a 2003 crime-action thriller film directed by John McTiernan, written by James Vanderbilt, and starring John Travolta, Connie Nielsen and Samuel L. Jackson. It is the second film starring Travolta and Jackson after Pulp Fiction. The film follows a DEA agent solving the mystery of a bungled training exercise that leads to the deaths of multiple Army Ranger trainees and their instructor.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama / Action / Mystery
- Original language
- English
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