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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Nothing about this movie was correct but if your looking for a Friday the 13th meet Texas chainsaw in Vietnam then this film is for you. The creator only used the term tunnel rats to make money off of something that was way more interesting in real life than in this movie. I can't even begin to reference the number of stupid things that just would not have happened during that time. I'm actually afraid that as time goes on....people will just make stuff up and people will believe it as facts. I believe that the best of Hollywood is over and that the age or doing real research and fact finding in movies is over. Just as good music is dead...so are good movies. Sad but true.

I just visited a military forum earlier today the Army Rumour Service website , the self styled unofficial website of the modern day British . One interesting thread amongst the many informative and interesting threads on the forum is "Worst War Film Ever " (WWFE) . One chap on the thread read my review of HOOLIGANS AT WAR and said while it was a pile of "£^&%£ it wasn't as bad as "The one about the tunnel rats in Vietnam" . The same poster brought up the topic again on the WWFE saying it was the worst film he'd ever seen . Totally intrigued I demanded to know the title of this atrocity . " The Tunnel Rats from 2008 directed by Uwe Boll" came the reply . I had to do a bit of searching , but not too much searching in order to find it With a title like 1968 TUNNEL RATS you're probably expecting a Vietnam war film featuring the role of the eponymous tunnel rats in that conflict . I know I was . Since the Viet Cong built a vast number of tunnels throughout the South of the country . American soldiers employed specials who'd have the dangerous and thankless task of actually going down , both as a recce mission and destroying the tunnels . PLATOON briefly touched upon this subject as did at least one episode of TOUR OF DUTY but only briefly . As someone who watched a lot of Vietnam war films to the point where it became overkill it might be interesting to watch a different aspect from a war which has etched itself upon the human psyche No such luck because 1968 TUNNEL RATS is exploitation with a capital E . It does have a look and feel of one of those things that was appearing in the 1980s usually with Chuck Norris where the hero goes back to the 'Nam , usually to rescue abandoned MIAs while killing lots and lots of commies . It's hardly cerebral anti-war statement and is closer to mindless war porn fun and as much as I hate myself for saying this it is actually fun on an exploitation level . Much of the fun comes about watching Boll try and disguise his non existent budget by staging an epic battle scene on a Forward Operating Base . Having no budget means the FOB is a couple of tents and a sandbag bunker . When the VC attack it's painfully obvious there's only about three VC soldiers attacking a base of four Americans . He shoots the small outside set from different angles and every time there's a cut to a gun battle the shot is in medium close up never failing to disguise the fact that there's never more than three or four extras being used . Nice try Uwe but you're fooling no one but thanks for giving us a brainless film that is more entertaining than it possibly deserves to be

The effort of this film was GREAT!!! That said the facts expressed were all WRONG!! Wanting to give a story from all four sides..up, down, us, them was an idea worth pursuing why then weren't the facts? Bases in the jungle without clear visuals, jeeps...people of all sizes fitting in tunnels noted for being the small size of the tunnelers NOPE!!! Big screw up there in an otherwise fantastic attempt to give a no sided take on the horror of war...sorry Charlie not this one!!! I've never seen anything from this director before and a lot of the actors were new to me, however most held the story to the limit and made me feel their fear and pain. The shots of bodily damage and reaction to being shot was from my experience pretty real. The isolation and helplessness gave a bleak and painful feeling as well. All in all I really wish the director had taken time to find out the simple facts and gives us a better effort.

Uwe Boll is notorious for making some terrible movies, most of which are video game adaptations. However, every drama Uwe Boll has done which I have seen, this and Heart of America, have been good movies worthy of some praise.Tunnel Rats is hard to watch. It is extremely brutal and graphic, probably the most graphic movie I have seen. This adds to the drama because it will make you cringe and you will want to close your eyes. I was against Uwe Boll making a Vietnam movie, because he's German, but I think he put more effort into the drama than Oliver Stone did with Platoon. However, Platoon is a better film in terms of characters and progression with the story, and one of my favorite films.I felt that the movie was too short and that everything was rushed, but the short length fit somehow because I was getting ready to stop watching, because of the violence level. This isn't a particularly great movie, but it does show both sides of the war and the ending was wonderful. This is the first Vietnam movie that actually made it feel like the US lost the war, and we did.