faulted scenes leave this decent and respectable story line nearly as overpowered and helpless as its own rape victim.
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The General's Daughter (1999)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:19
Rotten:67
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Contrived performances and over-the-top sequences offer little real drama.
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is raped and murdered, the undercover military investigator (Travolta) assigned to the case discovers a shocking labyrinth of... [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton
Director: Simon West
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Reviews for The General's Daughter
Not a single scene or character rings true, and shame on anyone who can't pick out the murderer in the first reel.
04/03/02
A consistently involving effort!
01/01/00
Top CriticTo betray a loved one or a friend is a grievous breech of trust. It is a form of murder, brutalizing the tenderness and intimacy of the soul.
03/04/02
A thriller in the tradition of military whodunits like A Few Good Men, with lots of menacing suspense, deceptive intrigue and even a few 'You can't handle the truth'-caliber one-liners.
01/01/00
The whole thing is pretty routine and, at times, downright silly.
01/01/00
Pretty absurd, not the least for the way Travolta seems to be channeling a bizarro Bill Clinton throughout.
01/01/00
Top CriticWest respectably stretches beyond slam-bang action theatrics.
01/01/00
Despite moments of mounting suspense, the film suffers from stilted unevenness.
06/05/02
So nonsensical and asinine that it would take all 14,000 miles of cable holding up the Brooklyn Bridge to suspend your disbelief.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe General's Daughter is a well-made thriller with a lot of good acting.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe sleaziest movie of the year is The General's Daughter!
01/01/00
Top CriticA mostly smart, well acted, and very well paced and atmospheric thriller!
01/01/00
Few use the backdrop of gender inequality more awkwardly.
01/01/00
A muddled mystery.
01/01/00
Do the filmmakers think we're morons? We're certainly treated as such, right from the beginning.
02/13/08
Tortuous, tormented, and trashy.
01/01/00
No doubt about it, to divulge the plot would spoil the experience -- you'll be shocked to discover, and maybe even surprised to learn, just how lame the damn thing really is.
04/25/03
Top CriticThe film exists to relish showing a promiscuous woman's effect on her testosterone-jockey colleagues and her provocative, self-loathing efforts at embarrassing dear old daddy and his West Point cronies.
01/01/00
Travolta wins hands down with his accent in a pleasingly intense performance that helps propel the story along.
04/17/01
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