Soooooo Loooooong. . . .

Rating: 6/10 (29 February 2008)

G. I. Jane was a solid military movie, with a women's-rights message that only came across a little heavy once or twice ("She's not the problem. . . we are!").
I was afraid that there would be a forced love-story, but that too is kept to a bare minimum and doesn't feel forced at all. It makes sense within the movie, establishes her sexuality that she strives to ignore, and it's not a big time commitment for the viewer.
That lack of a love story lead to my only problem with this movie: the length. The movie seems long enough to have included several more subplots, but instead many scenes just go on and on interminably, and the movie would benefit from being a good 30 minutes shorter.
It's predictable, and toward the end I was waiting for Lou Gossett, Jr., but in a good way. It's worth a watch if you like Top Gun but you don't like volleyball.