Tears of the Sun | | Cast : | Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser | | Director : | Antoine Fuqua | | Studio : | Columbia Tristar Hom | | Format : | Color, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | March 07, 2003 | | DVD Released Date : | June 07, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | tears of the sun | Content
 | a great movie for b. willis fans and very good movie for others. a good message, very good acting and great action. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | No Die Hard, getting better as the movie progresses | Content
| It is hard to see this movie as part of the Die Hard series, for which it was originally written. As a drama, it is a lot better than the comical Die Hard movies. TotS has no humor at all.
The story is pretty straighforward and nothing new. Soldiers have to rescue people, see genocide and defy their orders to help the people they feel for.
The first 50 mins of the movie are nothing special. Characters are flat (which they are supposed to be) and just do their job. Willis hasn't acted his best in this movie and no one in the movie (except for some of the African actors) really does.
The group has to flee and are being chased by a large group of 300 Nigerian soldiers, here the movie takes an interesting turn. It gets more exciting, deeper and you start wondering if they will eventually make it. Here is the hand of director Fuqua.
I am not sure, but I have the feeling that he is also very conscientous about the coloring of his movies, Training Day and this one have a lot of deep and dark and yellow colors.
Surely no Training Day or Hotel Rwanda, but not a waste of movie or 1,5 hrs of your life either
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| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | I really wanted to like this movie | Content
| This is a movie I really wanted to like... but it turned into a Hollywood Blockbuster. It seemed like the movie was being rewritten each day while they were filming with the result being that it seems like they are setting up 2 or 3 different movies as they go. I hope it wasn't the result of one of those star versus director things. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 23, 2005 | | Summary | this isn't your average action movie.. | Content
| This movie is one of Bruce Willis's best movies and he's got a fair shair of good ones. Bruce Willis plays a U.S. Special Ops agent who leads his men into Nigeria to retrieve a doctor. But, when she refuses by saying that without her people, she won't leave. The scandal in Nigeria at this moment makes it a hot zone but Willis's character can't stand to watch all of these people die. He stays with his group of men to save them.
This movie contains a lot of good action scenes and many nice shootouts but it is very sad and is a drama/action movie. I strongly recommend it to everyone as it's a sad story with some horrific images but shows the choice one man makes by disobeying his orders to save not one person but a whole population of people. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | What the #&%**??!! | Content
| Qualifies for a grade of three stars, otherwise, a mess from beginning to end... Here are ten - Count `em - ten (10) observations:
1. After the team has essentially accomplished the mission, the Bruce Willis character tells the pilot of the lead Blackhawk to take the whole team back to the point of extraction. The Blackhawk pilot complies without even uttering, "What?!! Are you high?"
2. Once back on the ground in Nigeria, all the crew exit the aircraft with thousands of highly agitated and excited Nigerian kids armed with AK-47's and RPG's closing in. Incredibly, not one team member tries to kill or kick the living crap out of Willis.
3. Willis then loads up the helicopters with Nigerian civilians, who presumably will be taken to the USS Harry Truman. Once again, the chopper pilot meekly obeys the Godlike Willis.
4. Instead of bursting a blood vessel and sending someone out by helicopter to relieve him, or at the very least, ordering Willis to comply with the mission directive, the Tom Skerrit character issues the Willis character a stern warning, and basically tell him that what he is doing is not nice.
5. Willis and the team then take charge of the remaining group of civilians and lead them on a trek through triple canopy jungle, probably loaded with every sort of poisonous snake and varmint you can imagine. The Seals share their MRE's with the moms and kids, nobody gets any sleep for a couple of days, but like Merrill's Marauders or Wingate's Chindits, the group advances on schedule with remarkably few problems.
6. At one point, the group reaches an area where Nigerian troops are killing groups of hapless individuals in the name of ethnic cleansing. To it's credit, the film shows how a smaller, lightly armed, well trained unit might take on a larger group of poorly disciplined, poorly trained conscripts.
7. While most of the plotline is hokey, "Tears of the Sun" has a lot going for it in the way of visual imagery. That is, until the introduction of the CGI toward the end of the film. The F/18's looked too much like something from out of a video game. As far as I can imagine, they probably don't deliver payload that close to the ground. The overall effect of this aspect of the movie was pretty cheesy.
8. At 50, Bruce is getting a little long in the tooth to play a Lieutenant (That's O-3 for you non-squids) in the Navy, even as a Seal. By age 50, most have put in twenty-five or thirty years and have either retired or find work where they can use their knowledge and skills in other capacities.
9. The film's ending is slightly reminiscent of the old Gabby Hayes Westerns; When everything appears hopeless, the Cavalry arrives, unannounced.
10. Despite all the shortcomings of "Tears of the Sun", I watched the film all the way through. It wasn't a bad film, but it just wasn't very good. Despite the major flaw concerning the abandonment of the mission, the story progressed logically up to about three quarters of the way through the film.
Bonus Comment: By the way, if you're hoping for an explanation for the title of the film, don't.
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