Tigerland: Critic Reviews

An affecting, old fashioned, antiwar war story.

Beneath the rough verite exterior beats the same slick, corny heart that has pumped blood (and money) through Mr. Schumacher's Batman and John Grisham pictures.

This take on Vietnam War doesn't break new thematic ground but it's Schumacher's best film since the 1993 Falling Down, and it showcases the talents of newcomer Colin Farrell, who has everything that it takes to become a major Hollywood star

One of its writers, Ross Klavan, based the screenplay on his own experience, and it's his approach that makes the film worth talking about.

Tigerland lands squarely in the top tier of best movies about America's Vietnam experience.

Even when the script overtaxes the allegory about how Vietnam divided a nation at home, Schumacher and the actors prevail by fixing their sights on what happens to men on that last stop before the game of war becomes a grim reality.

Tigerland is tightly constructed and culminates with a stunningly appropriate charge of ambiguity.

Stylistically this is more interesting and more affected than Schumacher's Flawless. Either way, it's a big improvement on his past tendentious nonsense.

Ever since Three Kings redefined just how great a war movie can be, movies like Tigerland have become unforgivable.

A talented newcomer with genuine presence, Farrell is able to suggest some complexity in a character that is written without any.

...never quite catches fire or becomes the searing expose that director Schumacher intended.

Farrell holds the film together as the one element that sets this a notch above the average military drama.

At best, Tigerland is not much more than a low-rated, cable-channel movie-of-the-week that should be channel-surfed right on by.

Tigerland will only reinforce one of the biggest complaints regarding Schumacher's work: that it's all about the look, not the material.

The hype is justified -- Farrell's performance just screams star quality and has already drawn comparisons with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.

A worthy addition to the Vietnam War film genre.

One of the most potent explorations of the military mind-set, irrespective of the war in question, that you'll ever see. See it.

The movie moves along as if it were on a forced march to Hanoi.