Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 99
Tries to be high-minded, but in the end, it's just a stylish action movie.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 23
Tries to be high-minded, but in the end, it's just a stylish action movie.
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Average Rating: 3.4/5
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A career soldier is forced to choose between following orders and saving lives in this action thriller. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is a veteran Navy SEAL whose commander (Tom Skerritt) has given his team a special assignment. A Central African nation is expected to explode into war at any moment, and Waters and his cohorts are to escort any American citizens in the area to safety, most notably Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a doctor from the United States who has set up a clinic in
R, 2 hr. 1 min.
Mar 7, 2003 Wide
Jun 10, 2003
$43.4M
Columbia Pictures
All Critics (167) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (101) | DVD (26)
Will a thinking audience really buy the image of helpless, grateful people bestowing kisses and victory songs upon Willis as the representative of all things American: power, guts, compassion?
Deserves the bad reviews and the lackluster earnings it has accumulated thus far.
Raping and pillaging and blowing things up is mainly what this movie is about, although it claims to show how the most robotic, dehumanized soldiers can be transformed by human suffering.
Fuqua ... can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior.
This Black Hawk Down theft is a trial by cliché.
In a movie with so much graphic suffering by innocent Africans, it's a bit disconcerting that so much loving attention is paid to Bruce Willis's anguished mug.
Shamelessly one-sided with cheesy wooden dialogue.
The movie regales us with the heroics of a (mostly) white American platoon picking off anonymous black savages.
An action film with a conscience.
A huge screaming bore of a war flick with a big plate of pretentiousness on the side.
...an unapologetic paean to the nobility of the American foot solider.
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.
... Fuqua relies on old-fashioned, gung-ho heroics and the stern face of Bruce Willis to carry the show.
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.
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.
There's a lot to admire about Antoine Fuqua's Tears of the Sun amidst the "Ra Ra America" sentiment, and the weak storyline about a hard as nails Lieutenant who never disobeys an order until now. I really enjoyed the first hour of this film. Unlike most action war pictures that find a conflict to exploit, Tears of the
January 17, 2012Super Reviewer
He was trained to follow orders. He became a hero by defying them.Saw it again after a long time without seeing it, I really didn't remember exactly what was it about but seeing it again was great and it refresh my mind. Truly great performances by Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci. Fantastic story and truly eye
July 5, 2009
Super Reviewer
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