Tunnel Rats (film)
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| Directed by | Uwe Boll |
| Produced by | Uwe Boll Chris Roland Daniel Clarke |
| Written by | Uwe Boll |
| Story by | Uwe Boll Daniel Clarke |
| Starring |
Michael Paré Nate Parker Rocky Marquette Brandon Fobbs Scott Cooper Wilson Bethel |
| Music by | Jessica de Rooij |
| Cinematography | Mathias Neumann |
| Edited by | Karen Porter |
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| Distributed by | Kinostar Vivendi Entertainment |
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96 minutes |
| Country | Germany Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $35,402 |
Tunnel Rats, also known as 1968 Tunnel Rats, is a 2008 German-Canadian war suspense film written and directed by Uwe Boll. The film is based on the factual duties of tunnel rats during the Vietnam War. In a documentary for the film, Boll revealed the film really did not have a script, and instead the actors are improvising their lines.
Although a box office failure, Tunnel Rats was met with positive reviews.
A group of US Army soldiers, trained in underground warfare, arrive at base camp in the jungle of Vietnam. The soldiers spend the first day and night getting to know each other. The next morning they begin to explore the Viet Cong's underground tunnel network at Củ Chi. Led by Lieutenant Vic Hollowborn (Michael Pare) along with Platoon Sergeant Mike Heaney (Brad Schmidt) Corporal Dan Green (Wilson Bethel) and Privates Peter Harris (Mitch Eakins), Carl Johnson (Erik Eidem), Terence Verano (Rocky Marquette), Jonathon Porterson (Garikayi Mutambirwa), Dean Garraty (Adrian Collins), Samuel Graybridge (Brandon Fobbs), Jim Lidford (Nate Parker) and Bob Miller (Jeffery Christopher Todd).
Armed with nothing more than bayonets, pistols, grenades and flashlights, the US soldiers take to the tunnels in a search and destroy operation, and begin to encounter dangers including primitive but lethal booby traps, such as punji sticks, grenades rigged with tripwire, as well as roving Viet Cong. Meanwhile, Garraty and Johnson are killed first, and later Sergeant Heaney and Verano are both killed as Green escapes, and up on the surface Harris and Lidford escape to the bottom of the tunnel, and Lidford is killed later on, Porterson successfully escapes through the tunnels. On the surface, the Viet Cong also attack the US base.
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