Review – Basic

Imagine somebody took Rashomon, drove the hell out of it and dinged it up so badly that it was barely recognizable, and then sold it to the Army. A DEA investigator (John Travolta) tries to get to the heart of the deaths and/or disappearances of Rangers on a training mission. We get version after version of the “facts,” each less interesting than the last. The bad storytelling wasn’t exactly helped by an unusually high dose of whispered dialogue intercut with ear-splitting gun battles. See if desperate