BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

nadinesalakovv I just finished streaming this flick for the first time on the free section of Amazon Prime Video and i was bored throughout, i continued to stick with it until the very end because as a film critic at heart as well as an unpaid critic i will always give a film a chance after i hit the "watch now" button unless it becomes unwatchable, this movie is not that, but it is everything else bad, it is slow-paced, the acting is fine - but that isn't the problem, the problem is the overall plot! for a thriller it is not thrilling, it is not suspenseful even though they desperately try and make it that way. I'll give this film a 2 rating instead of 1 because the plot-twist is actually clever and unexpected, but overall this movie is just not very good.

Floated2 Basic has an interesting plot and premise, as well as decent enough film editing, and acting. The film is full of plot twists in the end, where it becomes more interesting as the film goes along. Basic has been panned by critics but in several ways is quite underrated and overall intriguing and an entertaining drama thriller. Though we have seen films as this before, Basic doesn't quite follow the same route. In the end, the pieces will keep you guessing as an overall film tone.

JINCE P MATHEW So many twist and confusing plot. viewers may loose interest in watching movie within half an hour in the movie. story is very bad they could have done better.Samuel l jackson is keeping his standard in performance.Many of the viewers may not be happy with the performance travolta.

Com Func I'm normally a fan of John Travolta, but as other reviewers have said, there are just too many plot twists and turns, mixed in with a variety of flashbacks, so that in the end you stop caring. Or rather, you are thinking when told yet another version of events "really, well maybe, but I'll just treat that as hypothetical for now". Note to director, if you are going to perpetually change a plot, you have to first get us invested in the first one. If you just sketch out one plot line, then quickly skip to another, we just don't care. This reminds me of Kurosawa's Rashomon, where 4 different accounts are presented of a rape and murder. Rashomon however, does not leave one feeling frustrated in the way this movie does. But back to the movie. I was struggling with the realism of this OLD movie having a female Ranger since they weren't allowed to serve till April 2016. If she had been a butch muscular woman maybe I could swallow it, but she was petite and very cute. Then one of the guys was blatantly gay - and this is before "Don't ask, don't tell" was scrapped. So now I was waiting for the black disabled lesbian Ranger to appear in the next scene, just so we can all be politically correct.The straw on the camel's back came in the middle of yet another discussion in the rain soaked hut. There were at least 70 lighting flashes over a 3 minute scene. I was wondering if the "training exercise" was taking place on the planet Venus, or did the lighting engineer have a dodgy power supply? The map shows lightning flashes per sq km per year, with black / max at 70:http://geology.com/articles/lightning-map.shtml Since that jungle hut experienced a few year's worth of lightning in the course of that one scene, I guess the rest of the year was just peaceful and sunny? For me, the movie descended from 'hostile training environment' to pantomime, and I switched it off.