First of all, I am no Boll-Fan nor Boll-Basher but some year back I heard about him and his awful movie adaptions of Videogames. I saw "Alone In The Dark" (first Boll Flick for me) and after it was finished i thought the movie could have been better, the worst thing is that the way the movie was cut together was just bad, in all Actionscenes i thought "What the Hell". Sometimes I couldn't even tell what was going on or what the director tried to say with his scene. Second one I saw was "Postal" much better than "Alone In The Dark" better cut together and even some good laughs, but still, Postal is a bit strange too.

Then yesterday I watched "Tunnel Rats". I always thought that Vietnam was the most interesting war for warmovies and I loved the PC-Game "Vietcong" with the Underground-Tunnel Levels. If I would have to go in such a narrow tunnel with traps, I would probably die of Fear. The Scenes in the Tunnels are mostly Dark, which I hate about Movies, but in this one I was okay with these many dark scenes. The hole time i feared with the soldiers in the Tunnels. Some Actionscenes above Ground are still a bit strange cut and don't look to good but i absolutely loved the moments in the Tunnels, and the most time they are in the Tunnels. I NEVER would have thought it but Uwe made a Movie i really liked. The Tunnels Scenes are suspense, full with terror and very brutal but realistic. I would really like to shake your hand Herr Boll and I hope you will improve even more!

I Bet if this movie would have been a Secret Project and no one would know if it was a Boll Movie, much more Cinemas would have played it and the Rating would bet at least 5.5-6.0 Stars! 65% of the Ratings given to Boll Movies are from Bashers and Fools who just rate 1 because they "know" the movies must be bad! I saw two Boll movies and agreed: Bad Director not the right feeling for Cuts etc. but I gave him another chance, and so should you. THIS MOVIE IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE 4.2 STARS SHOWN.

Tunnel Rats is about clearing out the VC tunnels and it is clear this movie dedicates to that. The fights in the tunnels are good and refreshing, movie-wise. There are a lot of Vietnam movies around, this one separates itself from those because of the main theme.

Now, the fights and..well,everything besídes the tunnels is just poorly done. Nothing is right, from uniforms to weapons, to action scenes, all is badly done. Apparently these tunnel rats work independantly (?) and just have a hippie-gathering somewhere in the jungle. They have it all set up, showers etc, all is there. What they forgot to make is a perimeter of some kind. To everyone's surprise they get attacked (wich can only BE a surprise since they had no line of sight at all around the camp).

So the VC's storms the camp, and while they are in a (badly acted) fight,explosions everywhere, there are still soldiers walking out their tent like it is a sundaymorning.I cant believe any director would let scenes like that be in their movie.

With the well-done tunnel scenes and all the innovations shown within them, I was sadly disappointed by the rest of this movie. Which is a shame, since it had a fresh look on things. A 7 for the tunnelscenes, a 3 for the jungle-scenes, is a 5.

The year is 1968, the location is Vietnam in the region of Cu Chi. A small group of American soldiers are trying to track down VC soldiers in the nearby jungle and discover a series of tunnels. What started a a difficult mission may now prove to be downright impossible... how do you kill an enemy when they have all the advantages?

This film from Uwe Boll is, believe it or not, surprisingly good. Critics have long considered his work to be, frankly, awful. And I confess that some of his movies -- "Bloodrayne" and "House of the Dead", for example -- were not worth a pair of fetid dingo's kidneys. But at the same time, he seems to be getting better. "Bloodrayne 2" was an improvement, and now we have "Tunnel Rats". Perhaps not the best film you'll see this year, but a decent one and not particularly bad. Boll did not deserve the Golden Raspberry Award he received for this film.

The word that allegedly sums up this film is "uncompromising". The quote on the box declares the film so, and Boll himself called the film this when I interviewed him. Not sure I think the film is "uncompromising"... it definitely gives more gore than the average war movie, and he doesn't shy away from having the Americans get royally trounced... but I can't say that "uncompromising" really fits the film. Bold, maybe. But uncompromising? Not necessarily moreso than other films of the genre, such as "Full Metal Jacket". But, it does push some boundaries.

What could be said to be a strength or weakness of this film is that it has lots of dialog. We spend a fair amount of time getting to know the American soldiers and how they are real people put in a place they would rather not be. I think Boll's script is amazing in this regard, as he really captures what it is like being an American away from home. His references to American locations and lifestyles is impressive. Could I, an American, write a film about Germany in the 1960s? Not very easily. So he deserves much credit in this regard. Yet, at the same time, one could say the dialog goes on too long at points, with characters getting too much depth when many of them have precious little screen time.

The question I asked when I first heard about "Tunnel Rats" was this: do we really need more Vietnam movies? After "Full Metal Jacket", "Platoon", and countless others, haven't we said what we needed to say? America was in a war it shouldn't have been in and horrible things happened. I've had this message fed to me again and again. So I'm a bit burned out on Vietnam. But this film does offer something I've never seen before -- the Cu Chi tunnels -- and has a unique perspective that other films didn't quite meet. So, while perhaps not necessary, it isn't just a forgettable piece of trash.

I would recommend "Tunnel Rats". Uwe Boll tries to prove himself with this film and does an admirable job. If this is any indication of his growth as a writer and director, his upcoming projects should be fantastic. "Bloodrayne 3" may surpass the first two, and his film on Max Schmeling has the potential for greatness. Are we seeing a turning point in the career of one of the world's most controversial directors?