# Anyone see Basic? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-basic/168443 "2003-04-13T15:43:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-basic/168443/1 "2003-04-13T15:43:13Z")
So, I saw **Basic** lastIn retrospect, it was a pretty good flick, aside from the fact that I’m not entirely sure I have any clue what happened. Anyone see it and wanna explain it to me? Major spoilers below explain my confuzzlement. What I’m really confused about what who was a good guy and who wasn’t. I got that they (the Rangers) obviously didn’t all die, but were they really rangers? The two guys they arrested - the doctor and the guy who they thought was Dunbar (?) but ended up being Pike were doing drug trafficking, and the commanding officer (STyles, I believe) was in on it, too. The gay guy, I believe, was in on it, but was he a good guy? The 8 thing confused me (where he wrote it in blood on the woman’s hand). Then, at the end, they end up at a kitchen somewhere, and they weren’t dead, and they were good guys, and I was really confused. Help, please? ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-see-basic/168443/2 "2003-04-13T17:31:42Z")
Don’t bother trying to make sense of Basic. It made NO SENSE! I saw it with 2 friends, and for days we amused each other by asking each other for explanations of gaping plot holes. It is has one of the most incoherent plots I have tried to unwind. Don’t even try. Entertainment Weekly gave it a D+, and ended their review by saying ‘Who cares?’. But heck, my friends and I had fun at the movies.