this movie be a squandered opportunity . uwe boll apparently think the best way to make a statement about the pointlessness of war be by make a pointlessly long and wound inducing and brutally ugly and disturbingly unoriginal genre film . here and the director have a chance to redeem himself after a series of flop and turd . in postal and at least and he show some promise of not take himself too seriously and and while the end result there wasn not exactly a good film and at least it be entertain . but do not believe the hype . in tunnel rat and boll be aim for a serious and realistic movie . the film be market a be for the fan of apocalypse now and platoon and which by itself be a patently ridiculous and preposterous thing to say and come from a film maker who have build his career on lower the bar on genre film and from horror ( seed ) and action ( bloodrayne ) to comedy ( postal ) . by make a war film and boll have prove himself yet again a a completely derivative and wannabe director who be not concern with either originality and artistic impact or entertainment value . what be good in this movie be steal from other director . what be bad in this movie be the result of bad imitation or skew interpretation of the master and combine with a lot of self indulgent and amateurish drivel . to compare his work to those of oliver stone or francis coppola be an insult to the craft . nor be i try to be unduly harsh on the man . i do not care that he be a popular subject of internet ridicule . i only care about the fact that he make bad movie and with the sort of inane persistence that be mind boggle . and to stay true to his vision and the last 50 minute of this film be some of his bad yet . bravo and herr boll represent job well do . but let start at the beginning . the movie open up with some nice open angle shot and follow by scene at and around the camp . the character be introduce and some chatter be spew back and forth and the setting be lay out in order to be upset by event to come . the character be clichés and the dialogue be completely unoriginal . there be at least four or five variation of the theme of i want to go home but we can not cos be stick here and war be hell . the movie be ridiculously excessive in it repetition of the message of be not in kansa anymore and toto . emotion be show without preparation or care and and we be leave without any mean of relate to these cardboard figure shadow and a they be and of american stereotype . from the first action scene on and and all the way through the laborious tunnel sequence throughout the film to the final scene and the movie show sign of some of the bad pacing and cohesion in recent memory . the movie be about as chaotic a war and but that be not cinema verité represent uwe boll simply happen to be the cinematic equivalent of a shell shock treatment . maybe that why this movie be see by some to be authentic in it demented convolution and because they think that boll have create some postmodern masterpiece here . but what they mistake for craft be simply boll inability to make a coherent narrative last more than 10 minute . and because war be all about brutal ugliness and uwe boll just naturally happen to have the inherent lack of vision and honesty and skill to drive that point home involuntarily . boll be war . uwe boll be the bad enemy to his own movie . he be like the viet cong digging tunnel underneath the movie crew foot and or more like a saboteur within . after he be do and little remains of a salvageable movie . he snip out all development and abandon all his character and fail to release tension that he build up unnecessarily and meander like a schizophrenic tunnel rat in a maze and throw random scene at the viewer in a barrage of image that might as well have be edit together use an aleatory computer program or an astrological chart . and finally and he repeat and repeat and repeat the same stupid mistake of his early movie a if self criticism and self learning be sign of weakness . the latter half of the movie be an irredeemable catastrophe and a if even the editor give up on this movie after the midpoint . there be such a lack of love here that one wonder if it not do on purpose in some cruel and twisted joke . this be certainly not uwe boll bad movie . at least seed and alone in the dark and house of the dead be even more disturbingly amateurish . but what make tunnel rat perhaps more distressing than those previous stinker be it subject matter represent war . the film be so dark and gray and boring and claustrophobic and ugly that it perhaps his least entertaining movie yet . and it certainly fail a a message movie and because it have no intellectual honesty or artistic merit to speak of . so who be it for . what the point . i really do not know . the film be a completely dishonest hack job and a failure in it own term and and a complete humour failure to boot . this movie be ugly and meander and brutal and pointless and painfully long . yes and in that regard and it be an apt representation of vietnam . thank god be not in vietnam anymore and toto .