The Base (1999)
Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, the Major goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and find out just how far up the chain of command these activities are going.
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I like the title, the story and the settings. But the action... Phew, that sucks! In it's action scenes nothing is new or haven't been done and seen before. At first glance it seemed to be a fine action movie, but after a while, I thought I was watching an old action movie from the '80! Why do I say that? Well for one, the good guy isn't the perfect good guy. He shoots and kills others, but only bad guys who had it comming! Next, he beats up a guy twice his size who even has a rifle pointing his way! And if this isn't enough, he finishes everything off by stabbing a guy in the heart with a metal pipe, jams this pipe into an electric box and doesn't let go off the pipe until the poor bad guy has been grilling for a second or two! Talk about a real hero!!!!So then, what came first. The bad idea to make this movie or Commando, Rambo (any of them), any Van Damme movie and so on, and so on, and so on.....
Why do film makers continue to portray the military so poorly. Regardless of their intent, they could at least make an attempt to be accurate with regard to uniforms, military procedure and terminology, and weapons.This movie was so silly I had to watch the whole thing just to see how really poor it could be. The people making this movie certainly had delusions of adequacy.
If you like action and don't set your sights too high, you won't mind this one. It's nowhere near a Rambo or Arny flick, but it's way better than "Knock Off" with Van Dumb or "Soldier of Fortune Inc" that came out lately. The plot is adequate, the action moves along ok, there's lots of weapons and hand fighting, even a tank to chase the hero down. And the babe stays out of the way most of the time, and doesn't scream or cry thank gawd. What more can ya ask. -Bob
This film really stunk. I almost laughed my head of at all the clichees. John comes to the base wearing a bomber jacket and riding a motorcycle. Anyone's getting any Top Gun vibes? This film was REALLY bad. Avoid it. Or die of laughter.