important film

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2003)

Tigerland for me was a defining film. I know films about vietnam have been done time and time again but I thought that this film deflected away from the normal follow through of being in actual combat and being told the same old story each time, except, its rapped up in a different cover. Tigerland is an extreme disclosed account of young men being offloaded to boot camp to be complied into a fighting force to which will be sent off to die for politicans to don't care about them...........so in consequence to their ignorance of their higher state of priority a young man Bozz, stands up for himself and for his fellow man, showing his superiors his characteristics, i.e leadership, strong willed, cocky etc but also portraying, like normal human beings a softer side, compansion and feeling to his fellow soliders. I liked the character Bozz (played by Colin Farrell) because like my screen idol, Steve Mc Queen's character Hilts in the acclaimed war film The Great Escape, he is outspoken and stands for his beliefs but also cares for others. Joel Schumacher came up trumps with this film even though I was starting to lose faith in his ability to make a film which would not be torn apart.