Tigerland Reviews

Farrell is the best thing about the film, which veers into oversentimentality quite a bit for a film that's shot with such a gritty aesthetic.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

...after the effective buildup, the resolution is a letdown. It seems pat, formulaic, and anticlimactic...

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Beyond the excellence of the young actors, however, the film offers little we haven't seen before.

| Original Score: 6/10

The movie moves along as if it were on a forced march to Hanoi.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Beneath the rough vérité exterior beats the same slick, corny heart that has pumped blood (and money) through Mr. Schumacher's Batman and John Grisham pictures.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The narrative is weak, with the film consisting of a series of incidents that don't seem to be consistently connected.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Moments of beauty jostle bathetic scene-rigging, poignant historical verisimilitude crumples under anachronistic assonance, and skin-tingling acting runs up against wooden caricature.

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Tigerland will only reinforce one of the biggest complaints regarding Schumacher's work: that it's all about the look, not the material.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

At best, Tigerland is not much more than a low-rated, cable-channel movie-of-the-week that should be channel-surfed right on by.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

A talented newcomer with genuine presence, Farrell is able to suggest some complexity in a character that is written without any.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Ever since Three Kings redefined just how great a war movie can be, movies like Tigerland have become unforgivable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Tigerland lands squarely in the top tier of best movies about America's Vietnam experience.

Schumacher strips down his story and style until he has nothing left but bare-bones storytelling.

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Schumacher relies on an understated documentary style, largely using handheld cameras and seemingly improvised scenarios.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Stylistically this is more interesting and more affected than Schumacher's Flawless. Either way, it's a big improvement on his past tendentious nonsense.

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Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

I wouldn't put Tigerland in the top ranks of war movies, but it's a solid second-tier entry that makes you think about the characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

An affecting, old fashioned, antiwar war story.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Even when the script overtaxes the allegory about how Vietnam divided a nation at home, Schumacher and the actors prevail by fixing their sights on what happens to men on that last stop before the game of war becomes a grim reality.

| Original Score: 3.5/5

...never quite catches fire or becomes the searing expose that director Schumacher intended.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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