[Music] there's enough evidence here to ruin the lives of everyone involved including the general john travolta madeleine stone did you play together did you love her so much that you murdered her the most anticipated thriller of the summer you'd better start thinking about your crew and you better start thinking about yours the general's daughter hey this is amanda once again what about another video there's another paid request it's time for mr a thank you so much for that for those interested in requesting any topic or reaction review commentary re-review whatever it may be feel free to send it either directly to my paypal or join my patreon both links are down below in infobox and this is for the general's daughter from 1999 which i've seen before and always enjoyed always liked it as a big budget thriller meaning add the big budget so i had a great production quality to it on this military base helicopters plenty of military personnel it's based on the novel which i've never read it's directed by simon west who did conair which is my favorite film of his he did the first lord croft tomb raider which i do like lara sorry now laura lara croft uh not offended spinnables 2 though and not a fan of the mechanic which he did but i do like conair the first tomb raider and this film i would say those are my three favorite simon west movies now the task basis work very well john travolta some may say he's hamming it up with his southern accent i found him very enjoyable and fun to watch maybe he's a bit over over the top but i still found him very entertaining to watch i really quite liked travolta in this he's an investigator that will work with the military he's chief warrant officer other people in the film you have madeleine style where i remember from the film stakeout with emilio estevez richard dreyfuss she's in there also as an investigator who teams up with travolta on this case and the case is that on this military base a woman's been found tied up raped murdered and happens to be the general's daughter the general was played by james cromwell who's in the film babe among many other films you also have james woods in the movie you have timothy hutton who was in george romero's the dark half he's in the movie clarence williams iii who was in films like 52 pickup he's in the movie slice it has a really good solid cast that helps the film quite a bit and i thought that the lady who plays the general's daughter we get to see her before she's dead uh she helps travolta change his tire up even she did a good job they said i don't really think there's any you know some credits back to they said oh as a bad acting i don't know what movie they saw but with a test like this is that bad acting i will say i wish james woods who plays his colonel who knew the the dead lady he was really good i'm a huge james woods fan and the scenes between him and travolta i think are the most intense either the best acted scenes i wish james woods was in the film a lot more i think that's one of the few nitpicks i have with the movie is that james woods is such a great performer his character is interesting and intense and it seems with travolta again that's a character that should have been in the film a lot more i mean if there was some way that he would help out with the investigation or as i hate to say instead of madeleine style if james woods decides to join in and oh you can't do this listen i'm accused of this crime i didn't commit you know i want to help out i knew this person she was a friend of mine and maybe the first half is this standoff in the second half he joins travolta in the investigation and like behind the scenes or find you join maybe i keep it hush-hush i think that could have been cool i don't mind madeline style but she's fine but in a way you could easily rewrite this and take her character out of the movie i mean you really kind of tend i didn't i liked her because i liked her as an actress but i'm just saying you could easily rewrite this and take her out of the movie i do like a decent amount of dialogue i think the the banter and the same melon style i don't mind the banter between her and travolta i think travolta he's very fast and loose with the dialogue which is asking you know why was she killed and travolta goes through all the list of the common reasons people kill well plain old homicidal try to remember that term it was a homicidal mania i yeah in my old age it's hard for me to remember lines of dialogue more and more whether i like them or not yeah travolta is a lot of fun he maybe he's chewing the scenery but you know what it's pretty entertaining you know unclutch your ass cheats okay buddy the steering part's over some people get mad that it throws in a couple action scenes i'm fine with that because i'm a sucker for reaction scenes and i think simon west pulled them off fairly decently because in this time of doing conair in this movie he knew how to handle that because one of the things about john travolta's territory he's an undercover agent and he was doing this other deal and the guy tries to kill him at his home so travolta has to run and jump into the water and fight the down the water and even kills the guy with this motorboat i think the way that scene was lit the production value of that area i think made it much more of an interesting scene because of that a pretty decent brutal death on the bad guy as well but of course as travolta malin style investigate they get further and deeper into what's really going on who this general's daughter really was what had happened to her how far up the ladder this goes there was a cover-up things of that nature and to talk about that i have to go more into spoilers the whole thing with the women in trouble in the military i think is handled effectively in this movie because sadly yes there are times that that has happened in the military but at least it approaches that subject very seriously and not every damn guy is just a evil tyrannical god because he have travolta who's a good guy at least we follow his character and it's one of those things where you compare it to like interceptor the film i reviewed a few weeks ago starring chris hemsworth's wife that was a film that tried to do that but it was done so ham fisted so silly so goofy so inept that it was more insulting than anything it was just more ridiculous and stupid than anything this is how you handle that subject in a much better light much better light i said the the lines of dialogue get thrown out there are pretty entertaining like when travolta is talking with james woods and james was all should i get an attorney and blah blah blah and travolta goes well here's the thing first off there are no good ones again the scenes between travolta and woods and james woods is a possible suspect when they're sparring back and forth verbally in an office or later on when travolta has talked to if james was in this prison cell and his jail cell should say he said what happened he was a this was this was a rape worse well what's worse than rape when you find out then you'll know everything won't you and he does this thing with the james woods does his thing with the fingers on the bars i'm like dude this is the movie like this is more should be more of the movie have it be like travolta face of something's wrong james woods is about ready to get killed travolta helps out james woods helps out they both escape the bull you know with the bull he's doing the investigation and [Music] he's hiding james woods and they're both helping each other out that would have been cool to see you still have that banter and intensity but at the same time you get more of james woods's character the score i thought the score was pretty decent pretty competent with his military feel to it i set the production value with you shooting on this base and there's a point where a flashback is shown of an attack and yeah there's like battlefield because there's a training mission nice landscape like the budget is used well to showcase it didn't feel cheap at all with the way it was lit and cinematography and some decent helicopter shots and maybe the the twists and turns won't be unique to people who've seen a lot of these type of films but they were still escapism entertainment and yet i think the cast really helps propel that like for example there's a bit where they're taught to this guy was being a prick and the guy's like well did you love your dad and so travoltados my dad was a draunted gambler and a womanizer i worshiped him i thought that was really funny i thought the story was interesting that they get more into spoilers starting now where you find out that the daughter back in the day was in a training session she sally was raped and the father james crown was like i want justice for my daughter but then he's told by people to keep it hush-hush so he tells his daughter keep it hush-hush and you see the light pretty much go out of her eyes that you just say even travolta says that's when she truly died when she you know i wonder what was worse than rape and now i know betrayal by you you know you told me to go did the son of a [ __ ] i never thought he would be you sir but travolta i like john travolta i should mention that before i've always liked john travolta some people always be gay i don't care if he's gay straight bisexual buy focal i don't care i like them in the film greece i love broken arrow broke arrow is my favorite john travolta film i really like pole fiction i like this movie the fanatic was bad but you know what it was pretty damn entertaining it was pretty damn entertaining he's done bad stuff lately gotti was awful speed tills was awful i wish he would take notes from nicholas cage like you worked with them and face-off take some notes from nick this cage and do well i guess you know the the fanatic seems like the film nick cage would have done but i mean if you see john devolt in the film like mandy or and willie's do you imagine john travolta in a film like willie's wonderland is acting like a if deacon frog not deacon frost blade yeah what was his name in the character named broken arrow is it deets deacon god say i'm totally bad with names i take this tear down and broke the arrow but if it was a good guy and him going up against but that'd be pretty fun to see there you go who's wonderland too with john travolta well to me it'd be either with dolph london or jacqueline van damme there you go willie's wonderland too with george loving damn you know you see it i would see it a heartbeat but you're going off trap i've always liked john travolta and this is a time where just a few years before you had the coming back into prominence with pulp fiction and then you got roles and broken arrow and other stuff face off and then led to this and this was a box office hit when it came out i don't know if the film's on blu-ray but uh the film was successful when it came out it did make its money i think it made a decent amount of profit and but it got roasted by credit said i don't think it deserved that all these nearly as bad as the critics make it out to be i was talking about the story i liked that again this woman was betrayed and then she got into this kind of as she puts it mostly with people's minds i kind of revenge for her dad betraying her she decided to sleep with the male staff and almost a psychological warfare type of thing she got more the s m type stuff and then as the story goes on she had this plan she got james was the help to tie her down so that the father would see her and go see this is what they did to me this is what it looks like and this is what you covered up and then james cromwell did the piece of [ __ ] thinga walking away and then the person that killed her went up and killed her without james cromwell and others no one claims one is the third he has one good scene where he's covered enough for james crown well and cromwell doesn't know what the hell he's talking about i thought clemens williams the third 1952 picked up he was then tails from the hood [ __ ] he's not in the movie prison i don't know why i'm confused with another guy there's another guy in the movie prison i said that another review he's done the movie prison with vito mortensen that's a different actor so i got that right this time at the finale of the film in super spoilers you find out it's timothy hutton because he was one of the people that slept with the girl and she made fun of him and spat in his face and stuff and he lost it and choked her out some people may see that reveal coming and that's why they balanced out i like her in the movie she has some nice rapport with john travolta and then i'm just saying you could easily rewrite her out she she does have moments of shine to be honest to be fair she's able to get some info so i i shouldn't be that hard on on her because her performance is fine i guess i also appreciate they don't go for the typical love story where they fall in love with each other during it because that could easily be something they fall into they didn't go into that i don't know if they tried and their stuff cut out which i'll get to at the very end credits because the variant craze is a bit confusing to me but i'm i'm glad they didn't go that typical route of trying to force a love story in there because not every movie needs a love story so i appreciate that aspect as well now the the ending where it's in timothy hun bury some minds as he told bouncing betty i don't like the fact that timmy hun just kills himself i would like to have seen a fight like they would be cool to see like a fist fight just imagine the suspense like you're having a fist fight with someone but you're in the middle of a minefield so you don't so you have to be careful so you don't step on any of them i just think it would have been a cool fist fight if travolta like punches timothy hutton and he falls and he punches him onto a mine and he runs and covers balanced style i think that would have been more exciting that would have been more satisfying for a finale but i guess not trying to be that kind of movie i'm thinking more of an after movie feel like hard target or i guess in a way that happened it wasn't a fight scene but the guy got shot and landed on him and bad boys too but i did i just i would have preferred as if timmy hadn't just kind of killed himself that's when now i don't know jaspot about weapons but i have a feeling the bouncy betty i would ask fo if fabio if you ever see this please let me know is the bouncy betty if you ever see the movie it was that total [ __ ] the way that happens or is that real because i know a lot of times in movies they like the whole mind thing you know how a lot of times in movies people step on a mind they go don't move for why i understand that's [ __ ] when you step in the mind you're dead it's not you step on the mind oh don't people have told me that when they do that and then oh don't move don't put your pressure off people told me that's total [ __ ] that's not what really happens in real life that touch you're dead just so they put into the movies so i wonder if the bouncy bay the way this comes up and it looks cool granted there's a bit of cgi edition that's not the best doesn't hold up the best to be fair but i mean just when it bounces up and it starts to explode it look cool the explosion itself and like the bit where travolta's kevin style you tell that cg enhanced like early 99 cg it's not the best looking shot but there's some real explosive [ __ ] then which i appreciate like when they travolta and styles characters go and there's an explosion some of that's a lot is practical and i appreciate that mix in if you don't have the cd at least have a lot of the practical in there it makes the scene much more easy to swallow but yeah the general's daughter i've always liked i like the story the cast really step up i think travolta he tears the films on his shoulder very well again it's a good i think the production value works for the film it didn't look cheap it's an hour and fifty minutes but i didn't really feel bored at all i was fairly entertained throughout the entire film the end credits the reason i said was a bit confusing is the movie ends the try to start then goes to travolta driving through in his car driving through the base then he leaves the base and he drives over here then it really cuts to marlin style and her car where her car is compared to all this where she's looking compared to all this i don't know and then she drives off and then we'll follow her car it looks like she's going in completely different area i guess that will follow her car and then it fades out which i thought was weird because your last shot is not following our lead character's cards following melon styles car and i thought okay is she gonna maybe follow him to try to talk to him no that doesn't seem like the case if it was i didn't get that gist it felt as if there was something more there and there was cut out it was like weirdly edited maybe i'm the only person to think that but something about that left it made they kind of go well why is this even in here them in the car one in the car driving off and then there's boundless style and her car looked in i don't even know what she's looking i'm assuming she's looking at travolta's car but i don't see where her car is and vicinity that and then she drives off but does if you had a shot like the two cars like one behind the other and maybe discipline where they stop and they start chatting or something like i i don't know just something about that was confusing maybe i'm thinking about it too much but yeah i've enjoyed this film ever since i saw back in the day on was it vhs i didn't see in the theater might have been a few years later and i saw it on a dvd or something i can't remember the first time i saw it might have been on dvd i think oh i like the trailer and i like travolta so gave it a shot and they said really liked it i said it's my third favorite southern west film after conair and the first tomb raider and [Music] sadly simon west has crap that was a filmmaker because again i don't like the mechanic or jason statham a lot of people like that film i do not do not like expendables too i think that was a humongously missed opportunity and it makes me mad that you have stallone versus van damme and you crap you crapped out on it in my opinion i'm not going to get that because that'd be a whole half hour just on that but general's daughter i quite enjoyed it so thanks for watching take care we'll see you guys later bye [Music] you