Okay but ill focused with no real story

Rating: 5/10 (1 September 2001)

A kind of slice-of-Army-grunt-life film, "Tigerland" tells of recruits in boot training in preparation for duty in Vietnam. An earnest endeavor, this film offers some good performances and maintains a flawed but generally realistic representation of basic training with the focus on one platoon and one man in particular. Unfortunately the film gets mired in a morass of negatives forsaking the positives, duty, honor, and courage, with no clear purpose, a nebulous plot, and a screenplay which quickly becomes a burr of macho vulgarities and one big cluser-f**k. Most likely to be appreciated by soldier-type mentalities.