Tunnel Rats

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Mar•Garet W @MelFanClub 1d The small amount of scenes with VICTOR CHARLIE in the Tunnels is good enough, but all the scenes with the US Army Infantrymen is the better part of Dogshyte. Everything feels wrong, un-researched, un-rehearsed & uninspired. Just go watch PLATOON (c. 1986) again, after watching some of the 'Making Of' Featurettes. TUNNEL RATS (What an inspired Title) is tantamount to Bat Guano. See more Tom R Dec 1 I am not sure who this director talked to & researched this movie, but it is all wrong. Yes, there are some action that is somewhat true to Vietnam firefights, but there is so much that is not true to form. Having said that, the other part is,...I was there. When I first started watching the movie, on of the things I noticed is that the uniforms are all wrong. He has these Army infantry wearing fatigues that have epaulets. Seriously ??? Neither stateside work uniforms nor Army jungle fatigues have epaulets. Some soldiers have standard Army issue leather boots, and some have the jungle boots we wore. EXCEPT, their jungle boots just don't look right. Some have an almost yellowish, tan look. In addition, the material looks cheap. They were supposed to be at a mountain top or mountain area encampment in which there were jeeps that went to the camp on jungle trails. If there were those types of camps, I never saw them. May be, but I have my doubts. Some of the combat scenes were true to life, but most were just amateur film exaggeration. I cannot comment on what happened in the tunnels, since I did not go in them. Take the tunnel scenes for what they are worth. As I understand it, there was no script, and the actors made up their dialogue & adlibbed as the scene went along. Thing is, it is obvious most, if not all of those actors have never served in combat nor have been in the military. Their dialogue gives them away. All of their combat & dialogue has been what they have seen in the movies. If you want to watch a movie that will bore you to tears, watch this one. It's not worth the 1st minute of film. See more Vance F Nov 12 Don't think the writer/producer/director knew a single thing about the Vietnam war. The intro follows a single helicopter which would not fly solo except in rare circumstances and then when he lands 3 random jeeps show up to pick guys up. Like they'd just have roads and jeeps in the middle of the jungle. Then the guys boxing with no uniform on. I mean what a freaking joke this is. See more roger r 09/20/2024 There are some incredibly fine Vietnam movies, and IMHO this is one of the very, very best. I cannot understand why it bombed at the box office - unless it was too real and it made us think about things that we do not want to be forced to think about. Oh, what a waste of fine young lives. John Wayne would have been enraged over this movie. See more Curran D 09/16/2023 Really geat film that will keep you on your toes. Shows both sides of the war. See more Elvis D 03/12/2023 La película retrata el terror que sufren los soldados y toda la violencia que enfrentan. Lo hace de una manera bien lograda y las actuaciones son convincentes. Además, las matanzas son brutales y los efectos de maquillaje estuvieron a cargo de Olaf Ittenbach quien ha realizado películas super gore que ahora son consideradas de culto. Esta película está a un paso de alcanzar Apocalypse Now y Platoon, pero como toda película de Uwe Boll existen algunos tropiezos. La historia estuvo bastante bien, pero necesitaba más elementos y ser más extensas. También oí que la película tiene el error de mencionar dispositivos que aún no existían en la época de la guerra de Vietnam (aunque yo no sé mucho sobre historia y no pude identificar tal error) y además los combates que ocurren en los túneles apenas se distinguen, ya que dichas escenas son oscuras. El resto de la película está bien y no veo razón de porque debe ser mala y simplemente es otra película bélica más del montón. Para concluir, Tunnel Rats demostró ser una pequeña mejora para el estilo de filmación de Uwe Boll y aunque no sobresalió lo suficiente, al menos fue una película aceptable. Mi nota final para esta película es un 7/10 y al igual que las demás películas que pude ver de Uwe Boll, me pareció interesante. See more Read all reviews

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