Moore’s performance earns SEAL of approval
By Gerry Beltz
Film Critic
Intense” doesn’t even begin to cover a
description of “G.I. Jane.”
I Joidan O’Neil (Demi Moore) had been
perh<i ming duties for Navy Intelligence, but
stirs up the hornet’s nest when she is recruited
as a i>. m case” to train lor the Navy SEALs, a
highly covert unit trained in all sorts of weapons
use, combat tactics, intelligence-gathering and
so forth.
Yeah: the bad-asses. These are the people
who do the jobs no one else can do, wants to do,
or even knows about.
However, the training for the SEALs con
sists of some of the most difficult and merciless
activities placed on this planet (next to finding a
parking place on this campus), but O’Neil is
determined to succeed.
Unfortunately, O’Neil has more than just
tough training as a roadblock to do before join
ing this elite group. Master Chief John Urgayle
(Viggo Mortensen, “Crimson Tide,” “The
Portrait of a Lady”) gives no quarter in the
training to any of the recruits and is relentless in
his pursuit of trying to break their spirits Most
of the military higher-ups are counting on her
not succeeding, and even O’Neil’s sponsor -
Senator Lillian DeHaven (Anne Bancroft) - is
hoping she won’t succeed.
All of this, combined with a unit of soldiers
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The Facts
Title: “G.l. Jane’
Stars: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft
Director: Ridley Scott
Rating: R (violence, language, nudity, subject matter)
Grade: A*
Five Words: Military drama delivers fantastic results
who don’t want O’Neil around, makes her life
really begin to suck. But, while man after man
“rings out” in failure, O’Neil continues to suc
ceed, refusing to accept the extra allowances
given to her simply because of her gender. She
knows the only way she can truly succeed is if
she is treated as equal to the rest of her fellow
officers.
Still, the political machine continues to
operate, moving to have Lt. O’Neil removed
from the training.
Performances throughout the film are
excellent. Moore continues to take on a variety
of roles, refusing to slow down from the bad
reception of recent slackers “Striptease” and
“The Scarlet Letter.” Her constant frustration
with gender bias, in addition to the grueling
physical and emotional training of the SEAL
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Under the relentless command of Master Chief John Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen, left), Navy
Intelligence officer Lt. Jordan O’Neil (Demi Moore, center) sets a historic precident when she
is recruited to be the first woman allowed to train as a Navy SEAL.
‘Event Horizon’ raises
hell inside a spaceship
By Cliff Hicks
Film Critic
“Event Horizon” makes no apologies about
being a derivative film, but it is a good deriva
tive film.
The concept sounds vaguely familiar - a
ship goes missing for seven years and returns
without explanation. A small crew is sent out to
search the ship and find out what happened.
(Why is it in these kind of things they always
send a small group, not a whole bunch of peo
ple? Oh well, device of the medium, I suppose.)
Led by Captain Miller (Laurence
Fishbume), the crew is composed of eight peo
ple, including the doctor who designed the ship,
played by Sam Neill. And that is almost the
entire cast of the film, for a very good reason.
An easy misconception to get before enter
ing the film is that this is a science-fiction film
with horror overtones. In all actuality, “Event
Horizon” is a horror film with science-fiction
overtones. Stripped down, this is a haunted
house film put into a haunted space ship.
Good horror films rely on good acting and
tension, and “Event Horizon” does well in both
cases. Sam Neill twists and distorts his doctor’s
psyche with the skill of a master, and Fishbume
The Facts
Title: “Event Horizon”
Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neil, Jack
Noseworthy
Director: Paul Anderson
Rating: R (violence, language, brief nudity)
Grade: B+
Five Words: Haunted house story in space
plays the stoic captain to a tee. Other standouts
of the cast include Richard T. Jones, who plays
Cooper, the lighthearted rescue technician
(who provides the comic relief for the film at
well-needed moments) and Joely Richardson,
who plays Starck, the ship s executive officer.
“Event Horizon” borrows heavily from
other films, which doesn’t hold it down, just
detracts from its originality. The minute the
gravity drive is shown on screen, impressions of
“Hellraiser” start running through the mind.
The sets leading up to and composing the
gravity drive are designed with a lot of moving
pieces, detailed metal and spiky designs. It
evokes memories of the “Hellraiser” puzzle
box. Also, the occasional bits of dialogue seem
Photo courtesy of Paramount Pictures
JUSTIN (JACK NOSEWORTHY) approaches the third seal in the second containment of the Event
Horizon in the science fiction thriller “Event Horizon”.
like they were ripped right from the pages of space, and let’s hope cockroaches can’t deal
Clive Barker. with it.
A lot of the film also plays on common fears Traces of “Alien” also litter the film, main
- claustrophobia, fear of the dark, fire, drown- ly because both share the kind of dark lighting
ing, suffocation ... the only one this film really and closed spaces that make horror films effec
misses is vermin, and that’s okay because it’s —
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