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12/30/06
Tears of the Sun (2003)
34 %
Reviews Counted: 149 Fresh: 51 Rotten:98 Average Rating: 5/10
Consensus:
Tries to be high-minded, but in the end, it's just a stylish action movie.
Runtime: 2 hrs 22 mins
Synopsis: Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his elite team of Navy SEALS have their work cut out for them when they are dispatched to war-torn Nigeria with orders to rescue an American citizen, Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci). The mission is pretty cut and dry except for one glitch: Dr. Kendricks... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Fionnula Flanagan, Tom Skerritt
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Screenwriter: Patrick Cirillo, Robert Orr, Alex Lasker
Producer: Mike Lobell, Arnold Rifkin, Ian Bryce
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Screenwriter: Patrick Cirillo, Robert Orr, Alex Lasker
Producer: Mike Lobell, Arnold Rifkin, Ian Bryce
Composer: Hans Zimmer
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06/24/06
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07/31/03
The movie regales us with the heroics of a (mostly) white American platoon picking off anonymous black savages.
09/23/07
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A huge screaming bore of a war flick with a big plate of pretentiousness on the side.
05/28/05
...an unapologetic paean to the nobility of the American foot solider.
01/29/05
A tale of courage so facile and off-handedly racist that only Hollywood could have invented it. It confuses slaughter with action, and it's stupid, too.
07/06/04
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05/19/04
... Fuqua relies on old-fashioned, gung-ho heroics and the stern face of Bruce Willis to carry the show.
01/06/04
Tears of the Sun... [tells us]how the chain of command can be ignored if you 'feel' you have a better idea. Let’s hope no one takes this seriously.
01/04/04
Ao contrário de insultos como Falcão Negro em Perigo e Fomos Heróis, o protagonista deste filme investe numa causa nobre. E isso faz toda a diferença.
11/28/03
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11/11/03
Offers a heroism high on condition that you can ditch disbelief ASAP.
09/22/03
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