Metacritic Film

Tigerland

Starring Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., and Tom Guiry

MPAA RATING: R for violence, pervasive language, a scene of strong sexuality and some drug use

20th Century Fox
Drama
100 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters September 22, 2000

At Fort Polk, Louisiana, thousands of young men prepare for Vietnam. The specter of combat hangs over the men of A-Company, Second Platoon, as they enter the final stage of infantry training. They will be sent to the war. But each man deals with this prospect in his own way. One man's defiance, however, galvanizes every member of the platoon. (20th Century Fox)

WRITTEN BY
Ross Klavan
Michael McGruther

DIRECTED BY
Joel Schumacher

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

55 / 100

Critic Reviews

88	New York Daily News A strong, gritty, powerful piece of film making, and one of the three or four best movies made about the Vietnam era.
83	Entertainment Weekly An affecting, old fashioned, antiwar war story.
80	Los Angeles Times Consistently fresh, engrossing and unpredictable.
80	Variety A tautly focused, well-executed drama. Demonstrates that it's still possible to make small, intimate and personal movies within the Hollywood studio system.
77	Mr. Showbiz The entire ensemble is first-rate.
75	USA Today Worth a look. It's easy to overrate -- but just as easy to undervalue.
75	New York Post Rarely less than compelling, must-see entertainment, thanks to Farrell, Schumacher and company.
70	TV Guide The stripped-down production give a disturbing sense of immediacy to an otherwise fairly conventional story about boys being prepared for war.
50	The New York Times Beneath the rough vérité exterior beats the same slick, corny heart.
40	Village Voice In his first major role, the Irish actor Farrell deflects the script's more dubious aspects through sheer magnetic presence.
30	Rolling Stone Despite melodramatic lapses -- the gripping action recalls Walter Hill's 1981 "Southern Comfort" -- this is Schumacher's most ambitions film since "Falling Down" in 1993, and it plays to his strengths with young actors.
30	Film.com Jared Rapfogel A terrible, tired piece of filmmaking.
25	TNT RoughCut Lacks just about everything on every level.
20	LA Weekly Schumacher has gone into the cinematic heart of darkness and emerged with his own peculiar kink on the war movie: Vietnam beefcake.

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