Something Missing

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2001)

I was looking forward to seeing "Tigerland" because it was a smaller film that I had heard very good things about and though I enjoyed the way the film was shot and appreciated the performances delivered by many of the characters I thought that it totally misfired on the emotional level.
There was no feel to the characters and no development of them along the way. Maybe I am looking for a cliche "brotherhood" between guys in the army that was too subtle for me to detect but Boz's unchanging attitude throughout the entire movie began to irritate me. Every character seemed the same as the opening few scenes. It seems that once placed in a situation that intense that some character changes would occur in the people involved.
The other question that puzzled me was if it was so easy for Boz to be a savior for the others involved then why was he still there? It seems to me as someone said earlier that this was a Cool Hand Luke meets Full Metal Jacket hybrid but in Cool Hand the character had some sort of dignity and respect for himself and the others around him...in Tigerland he was just a jerk.
These issues perplex me so much that I wouldn't mind someone dropping me an e-mail if they can explain them to me.