if youre look for an intricate plot and look elsewhere . if youre look for feel good and shoot em up action and look elsewhere . if youre look for the late sugar pill rom com with sandra bullock and why be you even read this . in uwe boll stun tunnel rat and the increasingly interesting ( but still no less malign ) german director have make what essentially amount to a chronicle of the madness of war tell in a confined and claustrophobic and and frighteningly intimate way . the concept and plot ( a platoon of american soldier uncover underground tunnel build by the viet cong to stage ambush ) be one and the same while and the metaphor parallel confine space to the erosion of sanity be strong hysteria be very viscerally believable here . while the character introduction and subsequent dialog may strike note of familiarity to the seasoned connoisseur of cinematic warfare and it the unfamiliarity of the cast ( with boll regular michael pare be the only name actor present ) that make it all stick while the lack of name actor only heighten the suspense and especially after they have earn our sympathy . to see these young men trap in confined and booby trap space ( with nothing but a revolver and a flashlight ) be the stuff of nightmare and even more so than the descent a few year back . the film maintain a bleak and free form nihilism throughout and it plot ( much like the war it invoke ) a jagged sequence of event rather than a simple matter of connect the dot conflict resolution . tough and hypnotic and and refreshingly free of contrived stylistic symbolism and tunnel rat could very well be uwe boll masterpiece . 7 . 5 out of 10 .