Product Details

• Actors: Michael Paré
• Directors: Uwe Boll
• Format: Color, Director's Cut, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Vivendi Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 30, 2009
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001ULAUF8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,661 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Tunnel Rats" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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TUNNEL RATS - DVD Movie

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a UB hater, just a tedious and bad film, June 30, 2009

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Steve Kuehl "SLV Video" (Boulder Creek, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tunnel Rats (DVD)

I do not jump on the bandwagon either way on Uwe's work, if there is a good film I will review it accordingly. Simply, this was a painfully tedious tunnel film, beginning to end. Will try cover in this two sections: film and features.

As far as the film goes, there was an earnest attempt at recreating the tunnels, jungle isolation and military equipment. The tedious amount of character discussion leading up to the tunnel infiltration can be a killer (32 minutes of it before the first lid is popped), then you have to stomach over 48 minutes of crawling, digging, repetitively bad writing and a non-existent command structure. There are several outdoor battle scenes quite reminiscent of Predator in the amount of M-60s being swung around one-handed, with believability made even more absent as soldiers stand by as they are blown up by their own planes (for a couple minutes mind you - I figure they should have run after the 1st bomb, or maybe the 20th, but anyway...).

The special features contain some nice tidbits for Uwe fans. There is a 14 minute interview of Uwe stating his reasons why the US lost the war in Vietnam and why the film exists. A 10 minute making-of details the thinking and locations of this film (the tunnels were actually all on a stage - not in the jungle as stated by another reviewer here). The best material comes in the form of Uwe and the other actors admitting there was no script - they all wrote their own parts and winged the whole thing. 6 minutes of rightfully deleted scenes rounds out the last feature.

A couple more things - Uwe states that the soldiers are "responsible for the war" and on more than one occasion stands by his questionable feeling that the main reason the US lost the war was because of the tunnels only...hmmm. BIG SPOILER: the worst part of this whole mess was the entire film becomes pointless when every single person from both sides is killed - makes you feel like the whole time investment in any character was moot.

Once more - I am not a hater of Uwe, but this was a very long, boring, poorly written production.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tunnel Rats, January 27, 2011

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Barry W Lundgren (Woodstock, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tunnel Rats (DVD)

I did a year with the Air Cav in 1966-67. I've seen most Vietnam movies. The Tunnel Rats is without doubt the worst of the lot. I can only assume no one connected with the production ever set foot in country, read a book about Vietnam, watched a movie about Vietnam nor did any research into the war - even the basic technical details of their above ground base camp were completely wrong and looked more like a Boy Scout camp in Wisconsin.

The major tunnel systems began in Cambodia and Laos; the networks extended for 100's of kilometers and you certainly didn't crawl the entire distance. Some systems were so well developed there were roads complete with mechanical workshops, hospitals, barracks and substantial warehouses. While there were limited numbers of small "neighborhood" tunnel systems as depicted in this movie the majority were similar to those shown in the movie We Were Soldiers.

This movie sucked!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Jacket Cover, October 28, 2011

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magnumpi69 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tunnel Rats (DVD)

Since when did they have Blackhawks during Vietnam? I don't think I'll even attempt to watch it if the DVD jacket cover isn't somewhat historically accurate.