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06/18/08
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The General's Daughter (1999)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:3
Rotten:19
Average Rating:3.5/10
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
Top CriticNo 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 CriticIn terms of tone, the film is all over the map.
11/06/02
Top CriticA lurid mess, a Southern gumbo simmering in Gothic cliche.
05/11/01
Top CriticA middling, so-so thriller.
02/14/01
Top CriticIts vision of reality seems so stylized, so fake, that I came out of it wondering whether it has the slightest idea what it's talking about.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe sleaziest movie of the year is The General's Daughter!
01/01/00
Top CriticGeneral's Daughter strives to be a political nail-biter in the tradition of Fred Zinnemann, Alan J. Pakula and Oliver Stone, but there's really no comparison.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe General's Daughter has the spit and polish of a military whodunit, but it's a confusing, meandering case to follow.
01/01/00
Top CriticPretty absurd, not the least for the way Travolta seems to be channeling a bizarro Bill Clinton throughout.
01/01/00
Top CriticA consistently involving effort!
01/01/00
Top CriticFor all the stars' intensity as investigators, nobody in this whodunit really seems interested in the upshot.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhen there's nothing to blow up, the movie sort of blows itself up.
01/01/00
Top CriticTired, uninspired.
01/01/00
Top CriticThis pumped-up contrived, misogynistic military murder mystery is just about the tackiest excuse for summer entertainment I've ever seen!
01/01/00
Top CriticA self-destructive movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere's a line at which a movie stops being about something nasty and becomes one more example of the nastiness it's supposedly condemning.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe overriding tone is soggy. About the only thing that's crisp in this movie is the way everybody salutes.
01/01/00
Top CriticA good generic movie, with a well-crafted screenplay, solid direction and engaging performances from leads John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe.
01/01/00
Top CriticSo 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
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