The first scenes of the movie tell of Zack's troubled childhood and make the film a little slow to get started, but the focus soon shifts to the business at hand: Zack's basic training at Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School. ''An Officer and a Gentleman,'' which opens today at the Coronet and other theaters, is the story of Zack Mayo (Richard Gere), who enlists in the Navy as a last-ditch attempt to make something of himself. If this summer hasn't previously had a wonderful Hollywood love story to call its own, it has one now. But that doesn't keep ''An Officer and a Gentleman'' from being a first-rate movie - a beautifully acted, thoroughly involving romance. Undeniably, there's an element of corniness to this.
In this resolutely old-fashioned Navy tale, a selfish, hard-hearted loner becomes a much, much better man, thanks to the rigors of basic training and the love of a good woman.
THE hero of ''An Officer and a Gentleman'' is neither of those things when the movie begins, but he is both by the time it is over.
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