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Movie Review: "Tears Of The Sun" (2003)This technically-flawless war-action-movie directed Antoine Fuqua, who chose his follow-up picture to "Training Day" (2001) in order to work with Hollywood Star Bruce Willis, portraying Lieutenant A.K. Waters as leader of a team of Navy Seals special forces with facial-striking concerns, who needs to enter hostile rebel territory in central Nigeria, when a fictitiously post-civil-war, in the 1960s, collapsing democratic government gets over-run by an ultra-violent rebel army, who kills every rural villages in their path to control further regions of natural resources for an international black market, when the Seals team gets the assignment to retrieve a solely operating female Doctor with no further background story, performed by put-into-emotional-restraints actress Monica Bellucci, in the deepest green jungle scenarios of highly-visceral machine-gun combat action captured in excellent-executed visuals by cinematographer Mauro Fiore, who can not save the picture produced by high-scale war-action-pushing Producer Ian Bryce from falling short by being pretentious in its simple conception of just bringing a western-educated academic woman into safety from a constant-raging guerilla war tactics, when denied visualization of aftermath village massacres in population-starving agony gets exchanged for continuous suspense-loss, out-going from a thin originally-conceived screenplay by writers Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo, who hardly found an emotional peak to make "Tears Of The Sun" stand out from a crowd of modern warfare motion pictures.Nevertheless boot-camp-prepared supporting cast members including Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker and Tom Skerritt as combat-jet-carrier stationed Captain Bill Rhodes put authentic U.S. military atmosphere in the high-profile Columbia Pictures presented movie, when talented director Antoine Fuqua avoids to break free from the shooting draft to improvise a desperately needed bonding scene between extreme-situations-enduring main characters of Lieutenant Waters and Doctor Kendricks; the showdown stays visually compelling in a sky-rocketing bullet-storms and a massive napalm explosion, mimicking obviously a superior "Apocalypse Now" (1979) opening shot, when this war-action-movie fades again in forfeited consequence of an important opportunity to put out an "Anti-War-Campaigning" post-curtains-enduring message into "Tears Of The Sun" with respects to a still-war-struggled continent of Africa.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I have done studies on the Militant style terrorists in the jungles of Africa and this is unfortunately how they operate.. its very hard to find them due to how thick these jungles are. They know how to disappear and have spies everywhere to warn them about any operations to come get them. The villages are scared to death of them..

I wonder what happened to this Bruce Willis i mean he made this movie then Sin City, 16 Blocks and Die Hard 4.0 what the hell happened after that? Tears of the Sun is an amazing example of humanity and courage to not hate the people who are next to us. Of course some people won't like it because they will say that it's Propaganda and just a typical action movie and yes it does have action and some very rough scenes to watch but it talks about war and it's something that still happens it's not some PG-13 War film starring Shia Labeouf i mean common it supposed to be dark, gritty and have action it's a war movie and it succeeds in everything it also has a very touching ending i liked it a lot.

Movie is amazingly done. Bruce Willis aces again in his performance and the characters in the movie are very much likable. Yeah, we all know that movie like this is gonna go down with almost every character being a made-to-die kind of mannerism. But the intelligent characterization in this movie is none of the actors seemed to be too baffled with the problems and as the movie paces on, they accept a mission just for the order from mission leader and later get to grip on whats happening around in that place.This makes you feel so brutal, a Holocaust even in a mellowed down version will still look painful and the actors feel it. They are no way related to whats happening, they were in for a quick extraction mission but still when people are slaughtered they move from their Robot mindset to a more human perception, that right there will make you feel involved in the movie as much as the actors.The movie starts off very swiftly, and i was sure movies such as that will end in a rush, and it did. That's why i believe movie should take its time to pace in (Saving private Ryan, Black Hawk down, Hurt Locker) and then we might have a very surreal experience. I guess the director decided to end it just because he ran out of options, which is a bit cheesy.Monica bellucci should stick to modeling, i guess this part was one of her better ones, but still flat acting throughout, which is a let down. Overall, a good movie, not for the light-hearted.