I guess on the grand scheme of things. I could maybe understand how this could receive a 7 but no not really to be honest. I've watched the generals daughter and its honestly one of the few movies I've seen that I watch over and over. If you like this movie go see the movie "Basic". Another army john travolta movie. I didn't do the research I don't know why he was in two Army movies involving murders. But both are great. This movie hits hard. And I love it cause its a mystery honestly. A lot of actors in here really play their part. Even the General really gives a great performance. I read in the details that john wanted his wife to play the lady detective. And that would have crushed the movie. She was a great actor. On a lot of these movies the female part is honestly too much. I guess e live in a world where in movies they know they have a female audience and don't want to upset them. They weren't worried about it in this movie. This girl had sarcasm and she was great plus not everything went her way. She added to the movie not with some stereotypical bs. This is my favorite movie by John Travolta. I guess I'm bias but he puts on a great performance. Hes the god guy but honestly it seems like hes the bad guy. Rogue does what he wants and simply doesn't care who hes talking to. He even told the police "shouldn't you be out night sticking colored people". The kind of language honestly you wont see in other movies. The sarcasm is through the roof. Even the female detective still puts her spice on things and tricks the guy with panties she bought at a store and then throws away. She sold that scene.Nor did the director make her out to be some beautiful unwitty girl that made you want to puke. The Generals Daughter was beautiful. And even her character surprised you with her actions. This is a movie I can watch over and over cause 1 The acting is great 2. Because it has a plot with a bunch of twist 3. Its just some great acting 4. And most important of them all its great lines and very good language.

Popular Lt. Gen. Joseph "Fighting Joe" Campbell (James Cromwell) announces his retirement and is expected to be the next VP pick. Warr. Off. Paul Brenner (John Travolta) flirts with his daughter Capt. Elizabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson). U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command agent Brenner goes undercover to take down illegal arms trade on the base. When Elizabeth is found striped and killed, Brenner is assigned the case with his ex agent Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe). Col. William Kent (Timothy Hutton) leads the base MPs. They have 36 hours before the FBI sends in a task force. The investigation uncovers Elizabeth's hidden sex dungeon and her commander in psy ops Col. Robert Moore (James Woods) becomes the main suspect.This thriller is overloaded with hard-boiled performances and sleazy sexuality. There is so much manly posing that Travolta gets to be off-putting. He doesn't need to be the brash overconfident investigator. He is better as a normal human being so that this over-the-top story can actually effect him emotionally. Every performance, every twist, and every turn seem to be raised up to an eleven.

Watching Travolta play his character to the perfection that he does, only served to remind me why I didn't sign up - holding my tongue and biting my lip isn't me; and how he speaks his mind at the end of the movie to the General - LOVE IT !Is the movie any good? Oh sure it is - its a great 'who-dunnit'.... 'who-did-it'.....and for such an excellent movie, I can't understand why this isn't repeated across our screens instead of the tired 'same old' rubbish. Casting was well thought out with almost every aspect of this area not having any stone left unturned, their reward for their efforts is that actors 'click' and it shows too ....by incorporating a very strong storyline, adding some excellent actors, very good camera-work and fine direction...a movie worth 90 minutes of anyone's time is here. Very enjoyable.....love Travolta extolling the virtues of ''....I particularly like the bath beads...'' Definitely Highly Recommended and gets a 10/10 from me.

John Travolta might very well be the best thing about The General's Daughter: a rather mediocre, although not without its moments, detective thriller which uses military iconography and the idea of corruption at the core of something quite prestigious to tell a tale that doesn't feel like something you haven't already seen. He exudes a brash confidence here, a swagger that has him come across as someone flying through a mystery without a care in the world and yet with every care in the case he's trying to solve. If the film doesn't necessarily depict him swathing from place to place, beating people up and throwing them against walls in trying to find answers, then what does it depict? The pleasing thing is that it happens to work, his role a man seemingly stuck somewhere in-between cocksure, psychotic and just plain old righteous.Travolta plays a United States Army veteran named Paul Brenner, a man who appears to have a deep-south based twang; lives on a river boat and feels the need to place a hair over his front door before he leaves each time so as to know if anybody's entered in the meantime. During these early stages, we still only know him as Sgt. White – a man who potters into a local army base in a beaten up car where the motorcade of expensive looking sedans transporting someone important remind reiterate his rank. This is, tactfully, all later to be revealed as bogus and the sense of the film playing tricks on us is apparent – let the games begin. When the main body of the film does get going, we wave goodbye to these opening exchanges via a somewhat impressive second unit sequence involving the dark of night; crowded jetties and some underwater material, as one of Brenner's cases ends and another is on the cusp of beginning with the fact that he's pretty handy in combat in mind. The film's director, Simon West, who would go on to carve out a niche for himself in directing action with 1997's "Con Air" already under his belt, does well on familiar ground.Things turn sour in the wider scheme of things when the titular daughter of James Cromwell's General Campbell is found spread eagle on a training ground: stripped; murdered and tied to some stakes. Things seemed rosy the previous nights, when her father hosts a magnificent gala on the base with all in attendance; his titular daughter's smile adorning her face and not alluding to anything brash or out of place. But there was something sneaky about the way in which the dinner was presented to us; something about the music, something about the Gothic hall wherein they met – as if it were some kind of cult gathering. It is this death Brenner must investigate along with Madeleine Stowe's ranked rape councillor Sara Sunhill. It is a shame that Stowe, of whom I've always seen on-screen as quite a delicate presence through the roles she's played in the likes of Twelve Monkeys and Closet Land, is asked to spit the sort of rough-and-tumble dialogue Travolta can with ease. With Stowe, it doesn't quite work as well and this is epitomised in a rough scene when she must infiltrate a shower room full of butch male soldiers before barrack a man for answers.Part of me wants to describe The General's Daughter as "old fashioned". In the days of "Serpico" and "All the President's Men", this sort of one-man crusade for justice and truth were somewhat of the mainstay for mainstream American cinema and were often narrative-driven and quite good. West's film has the star-cast and enjoyed somewhat of a summer release throughout the Western world, but it is far from what constitutes a "blockbuster" – it's a film telling a story; unfolding a murder case involving characters it takes time to establish and must work out as to how they feel about one another. It has its bright spots, but resorts to dialogue and exposition where the depiction of a central context should be the order of the day. Take the scene in James Wood's character's office, where he speaks to Travolta about one's demeanour and the flaws in body language when telling a lie, etc. Such a sequence exudes a brash confidence for the moment, but a better thriller might've placed Woods in direct opposition to Brenner and allowed them to play off one another utilising these traits.In the end, one cannot, unfortunately, describe it in certain terms as much more than a B-movie; a piece whose construction and ethic are good but whose crux sees it depict a lot of shouting; fighting and ego-measuring where something like "Michael Clayton" was refined; smooth and elegant in its tone and attitude to its story-telling. It's not that West has made anything terrible, in fact it is the best of his works that I've seen when lined up against the aforementioned Con Air and the first Tomb Raider movie. Those expecting something synonymous with his name will be disappointed, those looking for recognisable names and faces in role you know they can play in their sleep on top of what is a rather engaging narrative of depravity and inner-filth will not be.