4/5 Who Cares About "Ewe Boll"?
  by Dufus (Arizona, USA)
I saw this at the video store and the cover looked interesting. Never heard of the actors in this and cetainly never heard of the director. Well, this film was a total surprise. Good acting, good script, good music, etc. It covers a section of the Vietnam war seldom seen and I don't care how accurate it was, it still got you involved. The bottom line of this film is that everyones loses in war.

1/5 Refund!
  by Lucas Mcfarlane
Possibly the worst movie I and my fellow viewers have had the unpleasure of watching! Bad acting, bad effects, bad storyline! Anyone who buys this movie will regret it, I would regret it if it was only 50cents, actually the 50cent movie is a masterpiece compared with this and that is saying alot!

1/5 I want a refund! (Should be zero stars)
  by Will
Totally bizarre, clumsily plotted, the attention to detail (there is none), special effects (lame), any sort of real acting (zero & there was no script). I think I saw a paint ball gun in a few of the scenes. If I really looked at the cover & saw the Blackhawk. I should have known better. I don't know who the director is & I don't care. Uwe Boll received a rare "Worst Career Achievement" award at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards on February 21, 2009 for In The Name of the King, 1968 Tunnel Rats, and Postal. I never thought I should have to google a movie before I rent it. Okay, I lost an hour and a half of my time (which I can't get back), I really don't want to ever, ever, ever admit to seeing this movie. I just want my money back.

If you have a family member who served during the Vietnam War...don't rent or buy this!

1/5 It's "Tropic Thunder" FO' REAL!
  by N. J. Fung (San Antonio, TX USA)
WTF WTF WTF! From the lines of "Tropic Thunder" - "You $#!T the money bag my friend!" I direct that to UB. STOP MAKING your favorite VIDEO GAMES into movies! Especially if you are doing the writing or are helping in anyway shape or form! Ok! Got that out of my system.

Time for the actual review...C R A P! Double C R A P!! TRIPPPLE C R A P!!! IT"S "TROPIC THUNDER" THE REAL MOVIE - the only thing missing is "BOOTY SWEAT"! THE DIRECTOR IS AN SOB and he should be put out of his misery and just "brained" - I mean full on lobotomy! Because in that state, he can use the excuse that that is why is movies are about as on par as wanting a third testicle in all of you children, including the girls. This movie was bad in terms of the acting, the editing, and the "costumes???" Where did they get the crap that they were using to dress these guys?!? The US grunts look like they stepped out of a "Dickies" store. The VC looked like they robbed the set of "Taegukgi" (Which was a better made/directed/designed movie about the Korean War - and it was done by a non-western director!)

UB does another fantastically outlandish and over the top look at a very serious and dedicated group of men - who were considered to be very elite in what they did. That being the pursuit of VC and North Vietnamese Soldiers that used tunnels to hide, travel, and transport goods. Not to mention the fact that many of these tunnels were rigged in more intricate patterns to confuse and even kill the US soldiers pursuing the "Commis". UB attempted to show this, but utterly failed. It was laughable in that I have seen graduate film students that have made better movies using a camera picked up at Wal-mart and the wardrobe department from their sister's basements. This was BAD! Not in a good way...not even in a "I'll sit through this to throw popcorn at the screen"-bad. This was the TEN MEGATON nuclear bomb of movies. Watch at your own discretion! Lastly, to show how much care UB - "the TARD" cares about his movie (all things included)- the DVD cover and his movie poster that promo-ed his movie show UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters coming in above the guy getting shot (or "taking a dump in pain") - either way it looks like the cover of "Platoon" with "Blackhawk Down" pics photo-shopped into the header!

Whoever gave UB money for this should have taken out a mob-hit to get their money back!

1/5 This is one of the WORST WAR MOVIE EVER. I'LL NEVER WATCH a MOVIE directed by UWE BOLL again.
  by Cestmoi
So far, I've watched 2 movies directed by UWE BOLL. They're Bloodrayne and Tunnel Rats. Bloodrayne is bad but this one is worse.

The only thing that is accurate is the tunnels. Most of the sections are just big enough to fit one person. And he must crawl. He can't stand or sit in it. Only when he arrives at the main compartment, then it will become as big as a room. That room can hold many people. That's exactly what the tunnels are in reality. They're amazing achievements. They can withstand bombings from air raids. You can read more about them in "The Tunnels of Cu Chi" by Tom Mangold and John Penycate. The ISBN is 0425089517.

All the other aspects of this movie are bad and inaccurate.
For example, the helmets of the Viet Cong soldiers in the films are completely different with the real ones. You can see the real ones in films like "Hamburger Hill". Viet Cong's helmets in this movie look like Thai soldiers' or some other countries'.

The acting and the fighting scenes are terribly bad and boring. As Steve Kuehl, another reviewer, stated in his comment here "In the special features of this DVD, Uwe and the other actors admitting there was no script - they all wrote their own parts and winged the whole thing." How good can a film be without a script?

The cover of this DVD reads "Tunnel Rats. Hell is for Heroes". It should have read "Tunnel Rats. Hell is for Bad Movies". I'LL NEVER WATCH a MOVIE directed by UWE BOLL again.