Tears of the Sun
2003 Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Synopsis
He was trained to follow orders. He became a hero by defying them.
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
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This was just a standard war movie. In it, this film has a few Americans take on a few hundred murderous evil bad guys, a soldier grows a heart and risks his men's lives to save the indigenous people from being slaughtered and maimed by the regime, and of course the white woman that makes everything difficult by being stubborn. These are all pretty much standard fare for the genre. There's really nothing new here, but if you like war-action movies, you should enjoy this.
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Predictable and by-the-numbers action flick with Bruce Willis. Nothing remarkable to look for here in the acting department. Still was fun to see.
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Average at best.
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1 star for the film,
1 for Bruce Willis
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The very first and one of the last shots of Tears of the Sun resemble ones from a film widely considered one of the best ever made: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Regardless of whether those resemblances were intentional, incorporating these shots (and a couple of others, that invoke similar reminiscences, as well) was definitely an unfortunate decision: Coppola's groundbreaking epos is infinitely the former film's greater, and Tears of the Sun can only fall flat in comparison.
Which is a shame, really: As a war action vehicle with a conscience, Fuqua's film isn't too bad. The direction, camera work and production design bear the mark of a skilled team and the script is decent enough for this sort of…
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This was just a standard war movie. In it, this film has a few Americans take on a few hundred murderous evil bad guys, a soldier grows a heart and risks his men's lives to save the indigenous people from being slaughtered and maimed by the regime, and of course the white woman that makes everything difficult by being stubborn. These are all pretty much standard fare for the genre. There's really nothing new here, but if you like war-action movies, you should enjoy this.
http://letterboxd.com/eli12345/list/march-movie-madness/detail/
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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"Willis’ aanwezigheid is bijna genoeg om de zwakkere elementen van de film te doen vergeten."
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Leidlich spannender Film. Die Action ist okay, haut einen aber nicht vom Hocker. Die Charaktere sind wenig sympathisch und das Leid Afrikas wird einem mit dem Holzhammer eingeimpft. Willis wirkt lustlos. Die Bilder und der tolle Hans Zimmer- Score heben den Film knapp über Durchschnitt.
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Predictable and by-the-numbers action flick with Bruce Willis. Nothing remarkable to look for here in the acting department. Still was fun to see.
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"One of Bruce Willis' best performances."
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Set in a civil warn torn apart Nigeria this movie is less of a war movie but more a movie about moral choices. It includes some pretty grim scenes