Eye Candy #344 - "Tunnel Rats"

Tunnel Rats:  One needs to set their expectations exceedingly low for Uwe Boll.  His entire oeuvre is pretty much garbage.  Based on the first person shooter video game of the same name, this extremely superficial take on American soldiers in the Vietnam War is laughably bad, but I’m a sucker for Michael Pare even though his career has resembled Boll’s since just after “Eddie and the Cruisers”.  The action follows a group of American tunnel rats exploring a large tunnel complex populated by all manners of booby traps and Viet Cong near their base in the jungles of Vietnam (their base is literally within short walking distance of the VC complex, which seems like the world‘s worst place to set up a firebase).  The American soldiers are stereotypes,  portrayed as largely incompetent and poorly trained (for some reason, they can’t seem to actually shoot from behind cover EVER in the course of the film), while the Viet Cong are portrayed as tortured underdogs with strong family ties.  The obligatory message about the wrong-headedness of war is completely lost in the trite script.  This film is just a poor excuse to waste some squibs.  Woodchuck sez, “Total crap.”