G.I. Jane (1997)
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 14
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3/5
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Movie Info
Ridley Scott directed this flawed but involving study of Lt. Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore), a Navy topographic analyst who is chosen as a test case for the presence of women in combat. Aware that she is making history and knowing that 60% of all male trainees will fail the rigorous training, Lt. O'Neil struggles to prove herself physically and mentally worthy of becoming a Navy SEAL. What she doesn't know is that she is being sold out by hardbitten Texas senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft in an
Aug 22, 1997 Wide
Aug 28, 2001
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Cast
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Demi Moore
Lt. Jordan O'Neil -
Viggo Mortensen
Master Chief John Urgay... -
Anne Bancroft
Sen. Lillian DeHaven -
Jason Beghe
Royce -
Scott Wilson
C.O. Salem -
Lucinda Jenney
Blondell -
Morris Chestnut
McCool -
Josh Hopkins
Flea -
Jim Caviezel
Slovnik -
Angel David
Newberry -
Boyd Kestner
Wickwire -
Kevin Gage
Instructor Pyro -
David Vadim
Cortez -
Gregg Bello
Miller -
John Michael Higgins
Chief Of State -
Stephen Ramsey
Stamm -
Daniel von Bargen
Theodore Hayes -
David Warshofsky
Instructor Johns
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All Critics (53) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (14) | DVD (10)
A rabid piece of militaristic pulp with a crucial and commercially shrewd difference: The hero, the soft clay to be molded into a steely instrument of death, is a woman.
From 1997, a movie that explores whether a woman has the grit, the strength and the nerve to survive Navy SEAL training, with a bald Demi Moore sweating, swearing, smoking cigars and fighting in head-to-head combat to prove that she can.
Unrealistic execution of an intriguing idea - a woman in the Navy SEALS. Moore is intimidating - and built! Viggo Mortensen gives an excellent early performance.
The problem isn't that Ridley Scott is the Leni Riefenstahl of the U.S. military industrial complex, but that the man has no politics at all . . .
Shows how zeal can be a spiritual dynamo bringing out the best that is in us.
Moore's typically prickly demeanor, often cited by her detractors as her biggest liability as an actress, actually works to her advantage here, as she unearths the voracious ambition in Jordan's soul.
Scott oversells every shot.
A simplistic, succeed-against-the-odds fantasy in Simpson-Bruckheimer mode.
Rambo but with pretensions.
Audience Reviews for G.I. Jane
Super Reviewer
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- Master Chief John Urgayle: A bird will fall frozen, dead from a bough, before...ever...feeling...sorry for itself.
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- C.O. Salem: Did you just have a brain fart?
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There are still things that work here. For example Viggo Mortensen is quite good as a master chief who shows no mercy with his methods of training and Anne Bancroft give us also a nice little performance in a supporting role. When it come to Demi Moore, she can definetly handle the physical side of this role but as an actor i am not that impressed of her work, She is just too mediocre in here.
Technical aspects are all top notch. Cinematography by Hugh Johnson, effective score by Trevor Jones and editing by Pietro Scalia makes this muscular film even a entertaining to watch at times, Especially the dynamite action climax is edge of your seat entertainment at it's best. There are still nothing that would fix this film to works as an balanced whole.
In the end G.I. Jane is definetly a lesser film from Ridley Scott.