| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Susan Granger (Rating: 4/10) |
| Based on Nelson DeMille's best-selling thriller, this is serious sleaze. Set on
a swampy Southern Army base, the lurid story mixes rape and murder with betrayal
and serious questioning of powerful West Point principles. John Travolta stars
as a Criminal...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Dennis Schwartz |
| GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, THE (director: Simon West; screenwriter: Christopher
Bertolini/William Goldman/ based on the novel by Nelson DeMille;
cinematographer: Peter Menzies Jr.; editor: Glen Scantlebury; cast: John
Travolta (Paul Brenner), Madeleine Stowe...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Greg King |
| THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER (M).
(Paramount/UIP)
Director: Simon West
Stars: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton,
James Woods, Clarence
Williams III, Leslie Stefanson
Running time: 116 minutes.
Like the superb A Few Good Men,...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Ross Anthony |
| John Travolta plays Paul Brenner, a cocky military investigator shaking up
the top brass after the General's Daughter turns up dead. It's the type of
role Bruce Willis would have loved. That's not to say John isn't
commanding -- he is; it's just that the...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by David Wilcock |
| Every once in a while comes the standard 'run off the mill' movie. It's
purpose is to tell a simple story, put in some action and comedy, a little
romance and drama, and give the star something to do. The Generals Daughter
is 1999's run off the mill...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by James Brundage |
| I should have trusted Madeleine Stowe. I should have trusted James Woods.
Both of these people have never disappointed me in a film, yet, when I heard
that Simon West was helming The General's Daughter, my first reaction was
that of an anorexic...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Michael Redman |
| We all have skeletons in our closet we'd rather not broadcast to the
world. An ill-advised affair, illegal activities, sexual peccadilloes,
a secret appetite for fried baloney and Velvetta sandwiches: it's a
rare person without dirty laundry. more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Jerry Saravia |
| Recent thrillers have become mired in lurid details and overcooked melodrama.
Some manage to be suspenseful ("8mm") and others are just plain flat and dull.
Nothing can be further from the truth than "The General's Daughter," a silly,
humdrum thriller...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Ram Samudrala |
| What is a crime that is worse than rape? /The General's Daughter/,
which should've been named after that crime, tries to illustrate this
in a graphic and depressing manner. more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Brian Takeshita |
| The U.S. Army utilizes a number of books known as field manuals which
stipulate the specific way in which almost every action imaginable
must be done. One particular field manual is known as the FM 22-5,
which among other things, covers the practice of...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Walter Frith |
| Rather than making sharp independent productions with a low budget and high
degree of skill like his 1994 comeback 'Pulp Fiction', John Travolta has
chosen to embrace the big studio system of commercial enterprise and has
only made two great movies since...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Jonathan Richards |
| THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER
Directed by Simon West
Screenplay by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman from Nelson
DeMille's novel
With John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe
R 115 min more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Akiva Gottlieb |
| rated R
Paramount Pictures
starring John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy
Hutton, Clarence Williams III, James Woods, Leslie Stefanson
based on the novel by Nelson DeMille
written by Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman
directed by...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Susan Granger |
| Susan Granger's review of "THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER" (Paramount Pictures)
Based on Nelson DeMille's best-selling thriller, this is
serious sleaze. Set on a swampy Southern Army base, the lurid story
mixes rape and murder with betrayal and serious...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Dustin Putman |
| Directed by Simon West.
Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Woods, James Cromwell, Timothy
Hutton, Clarence Williams III, Leslie Stefanson, Boyd Kestner.
1999 - 118 minutes
Rated R (for violence, nudity, profanity, and a strong scene of...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by David Sunga |
| Rating: 2.0 stars (out of 4.0)
********************************
Key to rating system:
2.0 stars - Debatable
2.5 stars - Some people may like it
3.0 stars - I liked it
3.5 stars - I am biased in favor of the movie
4.0 stars - I felt the movie's impact...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Eugene Novikov |
| I despise filmmakers that use plot exclusively as a means of getting
their movie exactly where they want it to go. Plot is a film's most
important element and it should be respected; attempts to manipulate it
for the sake of convenience will more than...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Jamey Hughton |
| I don’t appreciate it when a thriller manipulates the viewer into
thinking the plot is interesting, when in fact it’s ludicrous. In the
case of The General’s Daughter, the plot is more than capable of
intriguing you to a certain point. But at this...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by David N. Butterworth |
| A highly-decorated general with political aspirations. His lovely
daughter, a career officer, dead--brutalized, raped, and murdered on a
backwoods Georgia army base. Possible corruption and cover-ups at the
highest echelons of the military. A CID...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Nathaniel R. Atcheson |
| Director: Simon West
Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton,
Clarence Williams III, James Woods, Rick Dial, Leslie Stefanson
Screenplay: Christopher Bertolini, William Goldman (based on a novel by
Nelson DeMille)
Producers:...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Michael Dequina |
| It appears that the "in" thing for directors of popcorn fluff to do
these days is tackle projects of greater weight--witness _Ace_Ventura_
helmer Tom Shadyac's _Patch_Adams_ and _While_You_Were_Sleeping_ director
Jon Turtletaub's _Instinct_. Yet while...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Scott Renshaw |
| THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER
(Paramount)
Starring: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, James Woods,
Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III.
Screenplay: Christopher Bertolini and William Goldman, based on the novel
by Nelson DeMille.
Producer:...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Jamie Peck |
| THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER
Reviewed by Jamie Peck
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Rating: *** (out of ****)
Paramount / 2:00 / 1999 / R (sexual perversity, rape, glimpses of nudity,
violence, language)
Cast: John...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Berge Garabedian |
| By-the-numbers: A film which introduces characters, situations, dilemmas and
developments that we've seen before in a parade of other films. A film which
can easily be guessed out by the end of frame number one. A film which is
packed to the cap with...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Bob Bloom |
| The General's Daughter (1999) 3 stars out of 4. Starring John Travolta,
Madeleine Stowe, James Woods, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie
Stefanson and Clarence Williams III more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Harvey S. Karten |
| Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Ph.D.
Paramount Pictures
Director: Simon West
Writer: Nelson DeMille (novel), Christopher Bertolini, William
Goldman
Cast: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell,
Timothy Hutton, Clarence Williams III, James...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| You just can’t shake the “been there, done that” feeling while sitting
through director Simon West’s ConAir follow-up. It plays like a
second-rate version of Rob Reiner’s multiple Oscar nominee A Few Good
Men, driving home the tired cliché that there...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| Sometimes it takes a while for a movie to reveal its true colors. THE
GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, on the other hand, has a telling moment quite early
in the story. more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by James Sanford |
| If Martin Scorsese had hailed from Ireland instead of New York, he
might have made a picture like "The General," a dazzling, frequently
hilarious crime story about Martin Cahill, a legendary figure in the
Irish underworld. Cahill, marvelously played by...more |
| The General's Daughter Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| "Robin Hood is it, you scumbag?" Inspector Ned Kenny asks sarcastically
of his prisoner, Martin Cahill, a real-life Irish criminal known by the
sobriquet of "the General." The General was a modern day folk hero to
Dubliners in the 1980s and early 1990s....more |
