1968 Tunnel Rats

2008

Action / Drama / War

4
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 5283 5.3K

vietnam war

Plot summary

During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.

Director

Uwe Boll Photo
Uwe Boll

Top cast

Scot Cooper Photo
Scot Cooper as Private Joseph Walderson
Scott Ly Photo
Scott Ly as Huy Tran
Michael Paré Photo
Michael Paré as Sergeant Vic Hollowborn
Brandon Fobbs Photo
Brandon Fobbs as Private Samuel Graybridge
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883.03 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 2
1.77 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by abark 5 / 10

Featuring the most inept squad in military history

I never went through boot camp. I've never been in the military. I've certainly never been sent overseas into a war zone.However, throughout this movie I found myself constantly wondering 'Why are they doing that?' For example: Though it makes for better lighting for the actor-- While crawling around in a tunnel, full of hidden enemies, it doesn't seem like it would take much training to know that shining your flashlight in your face instead of down the tunnel, just doesn't seem very smart.Not to mention using a flashlight without a red filter(to preserve night vision) seems doubly not that smart.Or soldiers who have fought tooth and nail to survive, only to stand like they are watching fireworks while bombs land on their heads.The only movie I can think of that features such inept soldiers is the last Hills Have Eyes 2 remake, but they were just in training, which is where this unit should have been left.
Reviewed by QinetiQ 5 / 10

Only good underground

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.
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