THE TUNNEL movie review (includes Trailer and Full Movie)

All the names on the poster, are actual frameholders

I recently became having a habit of looking around on YouTube on the XBOX 360 and PS3, and typing in the search words FULL MOVIE, mostly a lot of Indian films come up and older movies. But sometimes movies pop up that peaks your interest.

The movie I happened to watch last night was “THE TUNNEL” This 2011 movie is an Australian Mock-documentary using found-footage , I liken it to Blair Witch Project meets C.H.U.D. If some of you haven’t heard of C.H.U.D. or even heard the name screamed in fear by Homer Simpson, look it up.

Before I review this film I want to tell you some interesting info about the making of the film.

This is the first film to be funded by something called The 135k Project a frame-selling, crowd funded, free internet release created by the company Distracted Media. They are trying to make movies that aren’t constrained to studios or the box-office results. Brilliance if you ask me. Also I think this film works best on a T.V., it would never translate well to a big screen.

The budget for the film was approx $140.000 (US) and to be honest you could have fooled me. Let’s just say if a US studio had made this film it would have cost about  $45 Million and would have failed miserably, with all the executive notes and other useless input weighing down the process.

“The Tunnel “ is about a group of journalists investigating why the New South Wales government decided to abandon a project to recycle water found in the vast abandoned train tunnels beneath Sydney, during a serious drought.

Main Journalist Natasha (Bel Delia) thinks there is a government conspiracy going on so she takes her team (Andy Rodereda), Steve (Steve Davies) and Jim (Luke Arnaldo) deep into the underground tunnels to find out what is going on. But as they begin to hunt for answers they realize that they are the ones being hunted. The main actors are actually really good and believable

Ok I liked this film, while it is not perfect it leaves you on the edge of your seat wanting more. It starts out slow but the it begins to build in tension till you can't keep your eyes off it. Also I love how it’s not what you see that scares you, it’s what you don’t see.



It's kind of funny that my roommate and myself were flipping through channels and we were trying to figure out who finances these crappy Syfy horror movies that make no sense, I mean Alladin and the Death Lamp, Pirahnaconda,..good lord... But when real people finance a movie you get something like The Tunnel

I know, I know, some people won’t like this because the “found footage” is sometimes dark, hand-held, and some of the time you have no idea what you looking at, but I think that’s what adds to the creepiness of the film. And to it’s credit, it’s a great movie to watch with all the lights off.


I recommend you give it a shot.

While watching it through the Internet the sound and looked great. Here’s the trailer and then below the full version of the movie. 

Here is the full movie, but if you decide to look it up through you TV using Youtube it's  listed as :

The Tunnel (2011) ~FULL MOVIE~ [Multi-Subtitles]

Eddie on "DUKE NUKEM FOREVER"

I rented DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Most games I just rent from blockbuster, 20 bucks a month and you can keep it as long as you want. This way you won’t be disappointed when the game is horrible, and your happy that you didn’t drop 60 bucks on it.

Now Duke Nukem originally came out a PC game in 1991, and had a few versions have been released over the years. Duke iconic shooter of the 90’s was for his vulgar language, crude humor, and use of woman like objects, which in the early stages of console video games was refreshing and pretty funny.

This particular version of Duke Nukem has been in development hell since 1997, and was finally released for the XBOX 360 and PS3 consoles.

So herein lies the problems.

This game should have been released 6 years ago than it would have been awesome. What you get here is running around, and sometimes battling monsters/aliens in a way that is, well, boring.

There is the tongue and cheek humor like drinking beer, getting oral sex by girls in schoolgirl outfits, or watching yourself take a piss., but the jokes wear really thin quickly, and what you end up with is a clunky game, literally.  I think they are pushing to much for the nostalgia of the older games, but guess what it’s 2011. They could have used everything about the character, but the mechanics of the game is what needed and overhaul. The loading screens take way to long for this game, and that is something that I'm sure annoys everyone.

Graphics are well done but that doesn’t help really, sorry.

You can’t upgrade anything, and it is not as action-packed as it should have been. Shit they could have taken advantage of everything from Modern Warfare or a Fallout game, and it would have been an improvement.

So all in all DUKE NUKEM FOREVER returns to his classic style and it feels really old and I was kind of embarrassed by it. Even a kid that tries to sneak in this 17+ game will be sorely disappointed.

In regard to the Blockbuster rentals, I returned it the next morning and got something far more superior, but I will review that later. But if you want to check it out, for your own shits and giggles, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Let's just say I preferred the N64 version better .