10/28/2022 0 Comments Return to base english subtitlesTravolta tries hard and for the most part he does OK, but his slick character loses it towards the end, and his final `winks' are not easy to understand. The dramatic tone suffers for this reason and, after a good start it all too quickly loses it's impact. Basic just keeps twisting but eventually gets to the point where it overstretches itself and the twists lose their impact. Not to unfairly compare, but Usual Suspects gradually added layers rather than twists as it builds to a climax. What I'm saying is that the story didn't set itself up well enough to provide killer twists, instead it was constantly pulling small then bigger twist after twist - to the point where I was expecting the next one before it arrived. Here the same isn't true, the script doesn't do a good enough job of gradually revealing a story to us just to twist it instead it just seems to be constantly changing the foundations to the point that I felt I was on quick sand rather than a base where the walls kept moving (if you get my meaning). Usual Suspects has massive twists that bewilder and require big jumps, but that had the acting and script to back it up. It isn't that the twists are too much of a stretch, it's that they are too much of a stretch for this film. However at some point, and I can't say exactly when it happens, the sheer volume of twists and the leaps we are expected to make simply become too much for the quality of the material and it more or less collapses in on itself. It is filled with dramatic interrogation scenes which, although cliched, do still serve to be reasonably gripping. The plot twists in several ways as each contradiction brings out a bit more truth in the overall tale. The investigation continues well with both of the two men telling their stories, however Hardy finds that the stories contradict themselves and that the truth is much, much more complex than first appeared.įor the majority of this film everything goes the way you expect it to, but yet it all still works reasonably well. When the base investigator makes no process, the base commander calls in shamed DEA agent Hardy. Two days later two of his men return and report the rest dead. Infamously cruel Sergeant West takes his unit into the Panama jungle on a training exercise.
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