"I now turn you over, to Master Chief John James Urgayle."

Rating: 7/10 (3 August 2004)

The rating of this movie is farcical: GI Jane is wholly underrated. Women in positions that would by conventional logic require the physical aptitude and the presence of males is a subject that isn't broached often enough. I don't have an agenda as per the subject, but I feel that it's fascinating and worthy of further study. Demi Moore becomes a Navy SEALs, the most "intensive training program known to man." Usually there are two categories of these kinds of butch femme characters, sexy actresses who try to be tough soldiers, and actresses who convincingly portray soldiers. Demi is a little bit more of the former than latter, bringing her attitude on the platter of a nice body.
The political play of the movie is disregarded as unrealistic. Why? It's obvious that much of this "women-in-combat" experiment is conducted at the highest levels of Congress and the Executive branch. The only thing that I could see happening in a scenario like this is a massive lawsuit by military figures to stop this woman going through BUD/S, unless they were co-opted by superior officers, which I think that they are in this film.
Otherwise, I feel that the performances are quite excellent. GI Jane's Master Chief Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen) was one of the reasons I got excited to see LotR. All of the minor supporting roles, Anne Bancroft, the general who operates the SEAL base, all evince their roles with skill. The only complaint I have is with the shallowness of the supporting cast, such characters Slovnik and Cortez, both who doubt "GI Jane" with a passion bordering insubordinance. Their characters are highly unprofessional and in my opinion would lack the fortitude to execute orders in a real combat situation.
A deeply underrated project whose commentary on the modern social ambiguities regarding gender and sex is pitiably ignored.