Chimpomatic

Basic

(dir. John McTiernan)

I had pretty low hopes for this, but the fact that John McTiernan was at the helm (Die Hard fans - you know who you are) swayed me into watching it. It actually started off pretty intriguingly, with a Agatha Christie style whodunnit set-up after drill Sergeant Samual Jackson is killed in the Panamanian jungle. As the story unfolds from different perspectives it is left to investigators John Travolta and Connie Nielsen to unravel who's telling the truth.

The bigest problem with the movie was that John Travolta was his typical over-acting-annoying self that he's been ever since Tarantino gave him the false belief that he wasn't just another David Hasselhoff. While I admit that the movie was slightly more twisty than I guessed, Travolta's manner just telegraphed from the start that there was going to be a big twist... meaning it's all no surprise.