Tunnel Rats (2008)

Simply Perfect

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Nothing about this movie was correct but if your looking for a Friday the 13th meet Texas chainsaw in Vietnam then this film is for you. The creator only used the term tunnel rats to make money off of something that was way more interesting in real life than in this movie. I can't even begin to reference the number of stupid things that just would not have happened during that time. I'm actually afraid that as time goes on....people will just make stuff up and people will believe it as facts. I believe that the best of Hollywood is over and that the age or doing real research and fact finding in movies is over. Just as good music is dead...so are good movies. Sad but true.

This is one of Bolls best movies. "That doesn't say a lot" thinks the haters. Yes, actually it does say a lot because Boll has made excellent movies like Seed, Stoic, Postal, Far Cry, Rampage, Max Schmeling, Darfur and Assault on Wall Street. Boll is one of our times most unappreciated and underrated directors. Just because he made movies like Bloodrayne and In the name of the king, people can't look past it and enjoy his other movies..like Tunnel Rats. Tunnel Rats is a far cry (pun intended) from a movie like Bloodrayne. Yet, I'm guessing a lot of people will give it a 1-rating just because it's Boll (probably without even having watched it). I can't believe the low imdb-rating...4,6 as I'm writing. So I give it 10, just to even it up a little.I would definitely give this movie a hight rating...at least 7/10. I think this is a great movie. It offers a completely different movie experience than Bolls earlier video game adaptations. The movie is set during the Vietnam war, and follows the fate of a group of soldiers who are sent out to hunt and kill underground Viet Cong. But you should not go into this movie expecting a documentary style war movie. The movie is set during the Vietnam war, but don't expect every detail to be accurate. This is not that kind of movie. It can be viewed as a general war movie, depicting the futileness and dreariness of any war. Or it can also be watched as a horror movie, or as a "journey into darkness" type of drama movie, simply set in the context of the Vietnam war.This movie is all about atmosphere...about ambiance. Except for the first 20 min or so there is hardly any dialog...only a dreadful atmosphere. The cinematography is excellent, the musical score is dark and beautiful and sets the mood perfectly. This movie offers a dark and claustrophobic movie experience. Take a dash of Platoon, Thin red line, Cannibal Holocaust, John Rambo, Beneath Hill 60, Predator and you have some idea what to expect. Well written, well directed, well acted and well shot...this is another Boll gem to put on the top shelf of your movie collection.

Make no bones about it, this film is TERRIBLE. Everything about the making and production of this film has been shockingly misjudged.For the first 30 minutes of this Boll tries to make you fell empathy for the character's bleak situation for what lies ahead, but instead it just irritates you as the characters are all paper-thin and the dialogue is terrible. As the film progresses it becomes more and more silly, and is riddled with historical and tactical inaccuracies, which really make you think he should have read a bit more into the background of the actual tunnel rat units in Vietnam. At some point it almost borders on insult towards Americans in its ridiculous and unsentimental portrayal of its fighting men.If like me, you watched this film hoping for insight into this fascinating aspect of fighting in the Vietnam war, I suggest instead you read Mangold & Penycate's Tunnels of CuChi, its what Boll should have done.

There are many occupations one might chose while in the Military, being a Tunnel Rat in Viet-Nam is not one of the favorites. Having served in Viet-Nam, I will say, blunt admiration went out from the members of our platoon and little disrespect was ever shown to those who survived. This film is called " Tunnel Rats " and brings to the fore, the thankless but courageous job these men did. I suspect the director's intent was to show the dramatic, dangerous and often suicidal missions these specialist were sent to accomplish. Filming both sides of the conflict, the camera also offered the Vietnamese' struggles against the Americans. From what there is to see, the soldiers on both sides engage in brutal and terrifying face to face combat with split-second reactions at every meeting. Michael Pare is supposedly a Lt. but listed as a Sargent in the film and with his men is dropped into the jungles with a search and destroy mission. Once inside the black maze-like underground environment, life takes on a nightmarish and hellish life of its own. Only the actual combat soldier who survives the encounters could ever reveal what it's like to be scared every second beneath the natural cemetery. A good film, but difficult to follow as most of the action is filmed in the dark. Despite it being a bit inaccurate, its worthwhile watching. ***