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Review of by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 08 Jan 2017

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With style and energy from the actors, with every sign of self-confidence from the director, with pictures that were in focus and dialogue that you could hear, the movie descended into a morass of narrative quicksand.

By the end, I wanted to do cruel and vicious things to the screenplay.

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This review of Basic (2003) was written by and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 08 Jan 2017.

Basic has generally received mixed reviews.

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