(rated R, 95 mins.) A thriller with some heavy hitter headliners including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Taye Diggs, Giovanni Ribisi, Harry Connick Jr. and Andy Garcia, that doesn’t quite come together. When a legendary commander (Jackson) and several of his men turn up missing, the last thing the government wants is a rogue DEA agent (Travolta) investigating the disappearance. As the investigation unfolds, the agent is place in direct conflict with the Army’s official investigating officer (Connie Nielsen) and nothing is as it seems (nor is the storyline as good as one would hope). Instead it turns out to be just another thriller with cheap turns, as the more twisted it becomes, the more the audience’s interest dissolves. Jackson spends much of his time trapped in a shouting match role (think a bad version of Lou Gossett Jr. in “Officer And A Gentleman”), Travolta seems like he knows it all, and Nielsen amounts to nothing but a very pretty face. Perhaps the movie took a shot at being the next “A Few Good Men” and failed. Written and directed by John McTiernan, the same guy who brought us other great thrillers like “Die Hard”. So, what happened here?
