Movie Information
Overall Rank: 4571
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 70
Theatrical Release Date: 10/06/2000
Language: English
Genre: Drama, War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry, Shea Whigham, Russell Richardson
Plot: A group of infantry recruits in Fort Polk, LA ends their training in Tigerland - a swamp that serves as a substitute for Vietnam. Yet with tensions running high and personalities clashing the war might begin before they finish training. -- Chris Kavan
Quick Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
mitchellyoung - wrote on 03/24/2012
This small-scale war film is interesting in that it foregoes the usual large battle sequences for a focus on the more quiet tensions that men preparing for combat undergo. Colin Farrell gives a breakout performance that is fueled by anger and fear and is as emotionally raw as anything he's done to date.
Full Movie Reviews
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2/4
"Tigerland" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/05/2012
Colin Farrell plays an army recruit in basic training for a tour in Vietnam, all the while bucking the system and looking for a way out. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Schumacher is a hack. Hack, hack, hackety haaack! All he ever does is regurgitate the ideas of others in a rather more bland and insipid way. Here he obviously saw Saving Private Ryan and thought to himself "Ah sure would like to make me one of them purdy war pictures a-hyuk, a-hyuk!" and set about copying it's pseudo-documentary style. Except instead of a gritty war story, he just rips off every boot camp film in existence from Full Metal Jacket to An Officer And A Gentleman. Cue abusive stereotypical Sergeants bellowing a stream of swear words and cliched threats at the usual collection of recruits; …
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