This listing is for Triple Feature - Hart's War/Thin Red Line/Tigerland DVD Set.

Format: Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC

Language: English

Subtitles: English, Spanish

Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Number of discs: 3

Rated: R - Restricted

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Run Time: ~375 minutes  

Director Joel Schumacher's TIGERLAND and his minimalist approach used in this film really work and the term Auteur comes to mind. It is a Vietnam era war film that never leaves the United States. The film focuses on recruit Roland Bozz a rebellious loner who gets released from the stockade and joins a platoon that is sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana where the Tigerland training area is located. Colin Farrell plays Private Roland Bozz. Roland Bozz is a born leader, but he's trouble. Yet like any born leader he can get the job done his way. He is hated and despised by most, but he is a wheel. The Tigerland training area is the last stop before shipping out to Vietnam. The training there is rough and rugged and it replicates the dense and thickly forested jungles of Vietnam. Colin Farrell as Private Roland Bozz is a real standout. He makes friends and enemies. He is a pacifist at heart and he has ways of getting recruits discharged from the army using the system. The training exercises at Tigerland mimic real scenarios and real death is always a possibility. The story, the camaraderie and the tangled web that gets woven, the overall outcome is something to see. This is a great film and totally underrated.

HART'S WAR is an incredible WWII film set in a German POW camp. Bruce Willis plays Col. William A. McNamara, senior ranking American officer in the camp. Colin Farrell plays Lt. Thomas W. Hart, who has been recently captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Hart had attended Yale Law School. There is a murder in the camp and a downed Tuskegee Airmen is accused of the murder. Col. McNamara organizes a court-martial with the permission of the camp commandant Visser, played by Marcel Iures, and Lt. Hart is chosen to defend him. The court-martial is an elaborate ruse to cover a planned escape and more. HART'S WAR is an interesting film. It is worth seeing to watch Bruce Willis' performance. Bruce Willis' Col. William A. McNamara is a very strange character as probes and manipulates people and events. I thought Rachel Portman's score was very interesting and brought out the underlying humanity of what unfolded. HART'S WAR is an incredible film and that is just the point. It is a dark and moody film, but under it all, it lacks credibility. If HART'S WAR had been simply an outright battle of wits between Col. McNamara and commandant Visser I think it would have fared much better.

I found THE THIN RED LINE to be a deep film, very ethereal in nature and liberating as it is disturbing. Director Terrence Malick focuses on the conflict at Guadalcanal from ground up and showing empathy and apathy along the way. Nick Nolte's performance as an over the hill Lieutenant Colonel trying to impress a very shallow and aloof Brigadier Geneneral (John Travolta) is moving. THE THIN RED LINE is a devastating film. The philosophical and psychological nature and the morality of war within that context seems to be present in some form in Terrence Malick's film. I see Nick Nolte as Colonel Tall as the most tragic figure in this film. In some respects he appears to be sacrificing men for the advancement of his own career, but he is sacrificing his own soul in the process trying to impress the high command of a military by delivering the objective. Nolte fails to see that he has been passed over for many years now and if he doesn't get the job done then someone else will.

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