Tigerland
by Joel Schumacher
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Actor: Clifton Collins Jr., Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Shea Whigham, Tom GuiryDirector: Joel Schumacher
Brand: Fox
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Producer: Beau Flynn
Producer: Eli Richbourg
Producer: Steven Haft
Producer: Ted Kurdyla
Writer: Michael McGruther
Writer: Ross Klavan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product features:
- 2001 - Tigerland - DVD
- Colin Farrell, Cole Hauser, Thomas Guiry
- Director: Joel Schumacher - Widescreen
- New - With Bonus Features
- Collectible
DVD Reviews of Tigerland
DVD Review: Therapy in the Army
Summary: 3 Stars
Actually, this Joel Schumacher film is fairly good with good acting and kind of a "Blow" or "Man on Fire" cinematography. I gave it 3 stars but I can yield to an argument that it could be more. The problem is what follows.
It's just hard to believe. It never captured me. The Army has it's Advanced Infantry Training (AIT) and the Marine Corps has its ITR, Infantry Training Regiment. The Corps also has a brutal 26 week course for Officers called The Basic School, carrying with it the peculiar initials TBS. Quantico has the 'Hill Trail' and no one EVER forgets the pain, agony, and frequently, unconsciousness of trekking its hills, gulleys, ravines and streams. But all those things are founded on a principle . . . oh, about 6000 years old, that what you practice over and over again when no one is slinging spears, arrows, rocks or firing Russian mortars at you, you'll be able to do when they are. (Check out Spielberg's quintessential combat sequence in the first thirty minutes of Private Ryan.)
All countries do it and have done it for 60 or 70 centuries. You want to see training camps? Check out "The Washing of the Spears" about Isalwanda and Roarke's Drift and learn about the Zulus, who could run 40 miles, fight a pitched battle, and run home, all in a day.
So Vietnam, or what Vietnam has become in the memory of those who never were there, is no different and the training was no different. To those who say 'yeah and we lost that war,' fair point. But we had a long string of victories up to that.
Which brings up the concept of war. Tennyson writes about his son who died at the Somme, "when they ask you why they died, tell them because their fathers lied." So there's no argument there. But for those aforementioned 60 or 70 centuries, we don't seem to have found an alternative. This doesn't mean we want it. It only means, we seem to keep on doing it.
We have two people in the last century who did something different. Passive resistance. Ghandi and John Paul. They accomplished extraordinary success through non-war, and it's difficult to argue that maybe British Colonialism would have collapsed anyhow (possibly) and maybe the Russian Communists would have drank themselves to death eventually (also a not remote possibility). But they didn't. Still, not many guys or movements to write about in the last 150 years. Perhaps Dr. King as well if you include our dismal Civil Rights history here in the USA. But again, three's not a lot.
Here, in Tigerland, there's too many troops who talk about calculus, emotional thalidomide and Camus when they're smoking a joint. Doesn't happen. The day's too long. You're beat. You sleep. And there's certainly never in the history of combat training, a private sitting in the quarters of the Commanding Officer, talking about the unfairness of war.
Finally, psychos in the Army. Sure. A couple slip through. Hey. You're about to do something that Ministers, Rabbis, schoolteachers and parents have raised you not to do. A little emotional stress and dysfunction is to be expected. Don't forget fear. It's damn scary. But the snake eyed crazo just doesn't exist. He doesn't slip through. Makes a great story if you're doing Freddy and Jason movies. But not very realistic.
So that's my problem. I just couldn't get behind it. Too much required suspension of disbelief. My favorites of that genre still remain Deerhunter and Platoon, with Full Metal a close third.
Farrell does a very good job. You can see he's headed for more centerpiece rolls. And Schumacher's a great director. 3 stars. Larry Scantlebury
Description of Tigerland
During the Vietnamese War, a rebellious young recruit shows leadership and loyalty in his platoon when put to the ultimate test.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 15-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD
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