I just fininshed watching this film. I liked it to begin I have to say that I enjoyed the actors and the story. Knowing it is a novel I will be looking for it soon. I can say that yea I believe it could of happened. Which brings me to the question was it fact or fiction I would like to know. because if it's another Blair Bitch I will really be disappointed in the entire movie. They should never leave it to where the audience walks out shaking their heads trying to figure it out.

i love john travolta, i love the movie, and i love the plot. im sorry that you thought it flopped but you ask anyone who saw it. thney LOVED it.

I loved the movie, I thought it was well done, until I read your review. Most of your skepticisme is correct but some are not. Overall I still liked the movie.

I thought it was ok, although in this day & age we live in with such sensitive issues as race-I do agree with you. That racial statement by John was uncalled for! As far as full nudity, hey this is 1999-cursing to a limit is even on prime time TV now-so that shouldn't be a problem. The only thing that really excites my curiosity now is the fact that I didn't know the movie was "NON-FICTION". Who was Gen Campbell. I retired Army in '97 I never heard of him! Although during one seen in the hanger I did spot a 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle that I am sure someone "conviently" forgot to pick before calling action. Did the actions depicted here actually happen? Can someone tell me? Gen Campbell- was Ft Campbell named after him? Thanks for allowing me my opinion time! Gary

I like John Travolta, I love James Woods and I like whats-his-name (Babe) that plays the general. I hated this movie. If I hadn't been there with my husband I would have left without waiting to ask for my money back. This movie had no soul, was a sicko and twisted in in it's assumptions, presumptions and was chock full of stereotypes. It was a waste of two hours of life and left me something less than when I went in. I regret it.

This movie combines sex and violence in an exploitive way. The keys to the plot are not believeable. Hard to believe that a whole segment of West Point males would gang rape a female under any circumstances. Still harder to believe that any father would choose his career over his daughter. And still harder to believe that such a woman would allow herself to be staked out nude. I believe the actor who played the general also played a President who sold out his country in a Harrison Ford movie, so seeing him on the screen is a tip off that it will come back to him. Pretty much of a farce.

Hollywood's blatant anti-military bias is getting more and more annoying. Not only did this movie, which is based on a NOVEL, leave the impression that it was a true incident at the end ("General So-and-so was court-martialed"), but the motivations of the characters were so twisted as to defy believability. WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!! First, we are asked to believe that an Army General would look his bruised, battered, bleeding daughter in the one good eye she has left, while she's lying there in a hospital bed after being repeatedly gang-raped all night long during a training exercise at West Point, and tell her "It never happened" and "You should forget about this for the good of the Army." How is it "good for the Army" to let a bunch of violent degenerates get away with rape? Are these the kind of people any General would want defending the country under his command? And then, what, she becomes the Queen of Kink because of this? Seems like this was just an excuse for the typical Hollywood dreck of adding sex and violence on top of rape and brutality. And the one decent, caring guy in her life helps her set up a horrifying situation so she can show her dad (I use the term advisedly) what really happened? Like he hadn't seen her in the hospital, battered beyond recognition. And then dad just leaves her there, naked and tied to the ground, in the middle of the night? What father would do that? Then there's the whole deal with "The right way, the wrong way, and the Army way." What exactly is the "Army way"? To cover up a brutal rape by a bunch of cadets so their classmates won't be bitter about women in the military? That seems to be the message here. What a bunch of Bravo Sierra. And then the Woods character either commits suicide or is murdered over this, only they decline to tell us which it is-and it does make a difference. The only reason I even give it one star was because Travolta was very good as the investigator, and Woods was excellent as her CO. All I can say is, Ugh.

I found this a gripping story, extremely well-acted. It is not for everyone, however. Travolta has displayed his talents very well in this, and all the characters are well- defined. I was aware of the outboard scene from a review and chose not to watch that, and the story did not suffer because of my decision. It was very intense and, unlike other movies, did not appear to have a "slow" part. The nudity, after the initial impact, was not concentrated on, and I found the story itself to be the compelling issue. Not a feel-good movie, to be sure, but well worth the price and time.