Basic

Basic (2003) is a crime thriller from John McTiernan you can watch online on iFILM. During a hurricane in the Panama jungle, an Army Ranger squad vanishes. Two soldiers come back alive, and each tells a different story.

The Army calls in Tom Hardy (John Travolta), an ex-Ranger now working as a DEA agent, to untangle what happened. Alongside a military investigator (Connie Nielsen), he interrogates the survivors, and no two accounts line up. Who killed the brutal Sergeant West (Samuel L. Jackson)? What really went down out there in the rain? Every new version flips the case upside down.

The movie plays like a puzzle, where the truth has to be pieced together out of lies and the ending rewrites everything before it. McTiernan, the director behind Die Hard and Predator, leans hard into tension and mistrust. Giovanni Ribisi and Taye Diggs round out the platoon. Stream Basic (2003) online on iFILM.