Review: Tigerland

Cast: Colin Farrell, Mathew Davis, Clifford Collins

Director: Joel Schumacher (8 mm)

Reviewed By: Clay

Plot: Colin Farell is a smart ass who doesn’t want to go to Vietnam. He is in his final train segment at a camp in Louisiana called Tigerland. The story is how Farrell the smart ass becomes a leader and finds a higher responsibility to his comrades.

Colin Farrell’s screen test didn’t really interest me and neither did anything else on this disk.

The Good: Any movie that has drill sergeants is alright in my book. Lots of profanity, pieced together in new ways is educational if nothing else.

The Bad: Farrell is a totally unbelievable character. He spends half the movie making fun of war movie stereotypes but this movie is ass deep in bad stereo types. No boot camp I ever heard of would have put up with half the dumb stuff going on in this movie.

I got the sense that there is a hippie morality play in this bad script but who can tell. I think that the ending of this movie was actually lifted from the movie Hair in a bad sort of way.

Bottom Line: Some how they managed to screw up a war movie… Don’t even bother renting it.

Rating: Two Box-o-Wine