Charming and brutal

Beautiful, moving film.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

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.

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.

I have to admit that I didn't watch the whole film because I just couldn't stop laughing at the horrible portrayal of military protocol and operations. If I intentionally tried to make a film with more errors, I would struggle to do so. Rank, uniforms, formations, etc. were all bungled. I am not sure if the Producers used a military consultant but if they did, they were either from the Civil War or a foreign military because these guys knew nothing about US Army Ranger training, Military Police investigations, equipment, uniforms, rank, Panama, etc. I was confused at many points. I couldn't tell if Samuel Jackson was supposed to be a Ranger Instructor at Ft. Benning or a Platoon Sergeant in Panama. In either case, both were incorrect in nearly every aspect. At one point, he was leading a platoon but was wearing Specialist rank then he was with same group in a jungle but he was wearing SFC rank. I could go on and on about the uniform issues but I will only point out one that provided the most entertainment for me. After conducting hundreds of hours of jungle patrols, I have never seen somebody so stupid that they wore a beret instead of a patrol cap.

Troops mysteriously disappeared when the hard Sgt. Nathan West (Samuel L. Jackson) took them out on an exercise in Panama. It's Capt. Julia Osborne (Connie Nielsen)'s investigation under base commander Col. Bill Styles (Tim Daly). Styles calls in old friend former Ranger Tom Hardy (John Travolta) who is now a DEA agent. One is dead. Only Dunbar (Brian Van Holt) and a badly wounded Kendall (Giovanni Ribisi) return. Neither is willing to talk at first. Hardy is under suspicion of bribery and was once trained by West. Time is short as the investigation is on the verge of being taken over.Directed by John McTiernan and written by James Vanderbilt, this is a convoluted mess of twisty reveals and confusing flashbacks. It's a rain-soaked murky muddle. After awhile, I don't really cared about the whodunnit or whathappened. I just kept waiting for it to end. Travolta is enjoying too much as he smirks slyly through his performance. Coonie Nielson is underwhelming in her pixie cut. At least Sam Jackson gets to yell a lot at people.