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05/19/04
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Tears of the Sun (2003)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:12
Rotten:23
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Tries to be high-minded, but in the end, it's just a stylish action movie.
Theatrical Release:Mar 7, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $43,426,961
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... [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Fionnula Flanagan
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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Reviews for Tears of the Sun
Top CriticWill 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?
04/22/03
Top CriticDeserves the bad reviews and the lackluster earnings it has accumulated thus far.
04/04/03
Top CriticRaping 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.
03/20/03
Top CriticFuqua ... can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior.
03/12/03
Top CriticThis Black Hawk Down theft is a trial by cliché.
03/11/03
Top CriticIn 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.
03/09/03
Top CriticThis movie should have been called Crocodile Tears of the Sun.
03/07/03
Top CriticThe film is a strictly no-bull proposition.
03/07/03
Top CriticThe movie might have gotten a dramatic boost from its topical theme, indirect as it is. Unfortunately, it's not one-tenth as interesting as what you can see at home during a nightly cable surf as U.S. war policy is debated.
03/07/03
Top CriticIf you ever wanted a reason to root for a righteous invasion, this sequence -- like My Lai but improved because it's perpetrated by the bad guys -- provides it.
03/07/03
Top CriticPropaganda doesn't get any more entertaining.
03/07/03
Top CriticAt its best, it's a little hard to sit through. At its worst, it's like every other picture about soldiers on a tough mission. What pushes it above mediocrity is that it ends better than it begins.
03/07/03
Top CriticTears of the Sun has a title that makes no sense whatsoever. The film's message, on the other hand, makes too much sense -- it's simplistic and reactionary and designed to get hearts pumping but not minds thinking.
03/07/03
Top CriticPainfully obvious, yet confusing.
03/07/03
Top CriticWhat's noteworthy is that Tears is simultaneously a gripping action tale and a plea for a policy of engagement, of humanitarian intervention, in parts of the world where oil is not at stake.
03/07/03
Top CriticWashington may like the timing, but the serious considerations of war and horror here are ultimately undermined by sentiment and schlock.
03/07/03
Top CriticJust smart and novel enough to not be mistaken for military propaganda.
03/07/03
Top CriticAt its best, the film is a nightmare embossed on a postcard -- horrific and ominously gorgeous.
03/07/03
Top CriticHandsomely made, well-meaning but finally frustrating and unsatisfying, this perplexing film is an example of a previously unseen hybrid, the socially conscious, humanitarian action movie.
03/07/03
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