- Actors: Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Tom Guiry, Shea Whigham
- Directors: Joel Schumacher
- Writers: Michael McGruther, Ross Klavan
- Producers: Arnon Milchan, Beau Flynn, Eli Richbourg, Steven Haft, Ted Kurdyla
- Language English
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Fox
- VHS Release Date: 1 April 2002
- Run Time: 101 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005UWNI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 32,060 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Shot in the rough, 16-millimeter style of a low-budget documentary, Tigerland marked director Joel Schumacher's welcomed return to simplicity after a slew of bloated blockbusters such as Batman & Robin. In revitalising Schumacher's directorial talent, Tigerland--which is partially inspired by the Danish Dogme 95 movement of no-frills filmmaking--suggested that one solution to Hollywood's moribund "product" was to abandon excess, focus on essentials, and assemble a fine cast of unknown actors to make it all worthwhile. To that end, Tigerland also marked the deserving arrival of Irish actor Colin Farrell as Hollywood's hottest new discovery.
Its story never leaves US soil, so Tigerland differs from such in-country Vietnam films as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Instead, it's about the anxieties and moral dilemmas that arise from the anticipation of death and killing. These roiling emotions are focused on the character of Private Bozz (Farrell), whose insubordination betrays a singular knack for leadership during infantry training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in 1971. Part RP McMurphy and part Cool Hand Luke, Bozz is a defiant maverick, barely tolerated by his superiors, challenged or revered by his fellow grunts and ultimately honed into a soldier of remarkable promise. An intense final week in the live-ammo training ground nicknamed "Tigerland" galvanises the platoon and Bozz's place in it, and although the film (partially based on co-writer Ross Klavan's own experience) lacks the emotional impact of Platoon, it deals quite poignantly with the internal conflicts that must be waged before external warfare can be endured. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
TigerLand is basically about a platoon of soldiers in the American army training for the Vietnam War. Private Roland Bozz (Colin Farrell)is brash and charismatic whose independance and outright defiance puts him on the wrong side of many of his superiors, as well as other soldiers. During the course of the film, he and Private Wilson (Clifton Collins Jr) form a bitter and intense hatred for each other.
However he also forms a special relationship with Private Paxton (Matthew Davis).
Tigerland is a brutal and intense training ground which is the last stop between the soldiers and the Vietnam War and during his time there, Bozz's leadership and character bring him and his men together - triggering extraordinary consequences.
Tigerland is one of my favourite war dramatisations and it really shows the brutal discipline America inflicts on its soldiers in desperate times. It is extremley moving and courageous, just like Braveheart. What I am basically trying to get at is YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
However he also forms a special relationship with Private Paxton (Matthew Davis).
Tigerland is a brutal and intense training ground which is the last stop between the soldiers and the Vietnam War and during his time there, Bozz's leadership and character bring him and his men together - triggering extraordinary consequences.
Tigerland is one of my favourite war dramatisations and it really shows the brutal discipline America inflicts on its soldiers in desperate times. It is extremley moving and courageous, just like Braveheart. What I am basically trying to get at is YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE! YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I remember the first time I watched The Godfather. I remember the first time I watched The Shawshank Redemption...and I will remember the first time I saw Tigerland.
The combination of beautifully understated direction from Schumacher and the coming of age of an unknown cast has created here, a gem of a film which has somehow gone unoticed.
In the high budget, blockbuster movie world we live in, it was so refreshing to see two actors take the lead in a film and captivate the audience so convincingly.
The movie centres around a group of recruits going through final training before they are sent to Vietnam. We never see them make it to Vietnam, but the real journey comes in the relationship between Bozz (Colin Farrell) and Paxton (Matthew Davis), as they try and come to terms with conveyor belt they are being sent down which is designed to make them killers.
Bozz soon becomes the reluctant leader as the men around him(mostly) admire his honesty and humanity. Why would he want to hurt another human being? The story sees him get two friends out of the army whilst his stuggles against a system he sees as so injust, only to get promoted.
With an amazing array of unknown talent on display, with the excellent Russel Richardson playing Private Johnson standing out, the film features the cream of Hollywoods future.
Colin Farrel must surely be the find of the year, whilst Matthew Davis can look forward to a bright future. Expect to hear more from this cast very soon. And expect Tigerland to become one of the classics of recent times.
The combination of beautifully understated direction from Schumacher and the coming of age of an unknown cast has created here, a gem of a film which has somehow gone unoticed.
In the high budget, blockbuster movie world we live in, it was so refreshing to see two actors take the lead in a film and captivate the audience so convincingly.
The movie centres around a group of recruits going through final training before they are sent to Vietnam. We never see them make it to Vietnam, but the real journey comes in the relationship between Bozz (Colin Farrell) and Paxton (Matthew Davis), as they try and come to terms with conveyor belt they are being sent down which is designed to make them killers.
Bozz soon becomes the reluctant leader as the men around him(mostly) admire his honesty and humanity. Why would he want to hurt another human being? The story sees him get two friends out of the army whilst his stuggles against a system he sees as so injust, only to get promoted.
With an amazing array of unknown talent on display, with the excellent Russel Richardson playing Private Johnson standing out, the film features the cream of Hollywoods future.
Colin Farrel must surely be the find of the year, whilst Matthew Davis can look forward to a bright future. Expect to hear more from this cast very soon. And expect Tigerland to become one of the classics of recent times.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I originally sought this film out based purely on it's trailer. I'd heard nothing about it and had heard of none of it's stars (including Colin Farrel, at the time). The result is a film bereft of window dressing and seemingly free of ego (bizarrely, given the director's track record). What it does give is a great Vietnam war film with neither Vietnam or the war to lift it. The relationships between the various soldiers are the bedrock of the film and, despite some cartoony steretypes, they are all excellent as they progress through training with little or nothing to cling to and the spectre of Vietnam and death (the two are used almost interchangably) just on the horizon. Colin Farrell pulls off the charismatic rebel with ease and his rise to leadership is both believable and well realised. The other "Grunts" are all good, though obviously less focused on than Farrell and his volunteer sidekick, Paxton, whose narration book-ends the film and, portrayed as slightly more intelligent than the others, adds alot of weight to the stuff in between.
Next to a film like Platoon, Tigerland seems pedestrian, with talky scenes and twenty-odd different ways of showing the way a rebel can be respected. However, it's a very engrossing film, giving a real sense of immediacy to what these men are going through. The only slightly underdeveloped theme is the vague way the Farrell helps two fellow Grunts to escape the army. The theme is picked up and dropped just as it seems to be becoming the point of the film. This doesn't do alot to diminish the film however as it plays relatively well next Farrell's steadily increasing sympathetic edge.
The camera work is excellent with grainy cinematography somewhat reminiscent of the Dogme style. I'm convinced that it wouldn't work nearly as well if it had been shot more conventionally.
The pay-off is superb, mostly because the film has not really looked like it's going to have a pay-off and when it comes it's both surprising and powerful.
Tigerland is a clever, powerful film, anchored by Colin Farrell who has, in my opinion, never been better. It benefits from not taking a stance either for or against war and emerges both entertaining and profound.
Next to a film like Platoon, Tigerland seems pedestrian, with talky scenes and twenty-odd different ways of showing the way a rebel can be respected. However, it's a very engrossing film, giving a real sense of immediacy to what these men are going through. The only slightly underdeveloped theme is the vague way the Farrell helps two fellow Grunts to escape the army. The theme is picked up and dropped just as it seems to be becoming the point of the film. This doesn't do alot to diminish the film however as it plays relatively well next Farrell's steadily increasing sympathetic edge.
The camera work is excellent with grainy cinematography somewhat reminiscent of the Dogme style. I'm convinced that it wouldn't work nearly as well if it had been shot more conventionally.
The pay-off is superb, mostly because the film has not really looked like it's going to have a pay-off and when it comes it's both surprising and powerful.
Tigerland is a clever, powerful film, anchored by Colin Farrell who has, in my opinion, never been better. It benefits from not taking a stance either for or against war and emerges both entertaining and profound.
Z
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