Tunnel Rats

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doug B @RT51901769 May 26 I did not know the director of this film- but something about Tunnels in the Vietnam war intrigued me. Its not an Oscar winner, but the tunnel scenes are good . I really liked the Vietnamese woman in the tunnels.. cute! Anyway. pretty fair film. See more John C @john120 Feb 12 I read the book called Tunnel Rats a long time ago and so I was interested in this movie. In the movie, the U.S. soldiers commit atrocities starting right away. The Vietnamese are noble. The tunnel rats are incompetent, unaware of finding cover, not posting lookouts around their base, smoking while on patrol above and below ground, talking loudly, very little interest in finding booby traps and consequently are killed so many times in gruesome ways. They also loved keeping their flashlights on while in a tunnel to make it easier for the enemy to see them coming. I was very disappointed. The only thing I learned was that if you had to, you could seek shelter in being overrun above ground by going into in a tunnel. See more Mar•Garet W @FilmVersusMovie Dec 12 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 @RT75340946 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 @RT26304352 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 @RT38346699 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 Read all reviews

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