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Tears of the Sun
Directed by
Antoine Fuqua
R
2003
2h 1m
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6.6
34%
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A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.
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Cast of Tears of the Sun
Bruce Willis
Lieutenant A.K. Waters
Monica Bellucci
Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks
Cole Hauser
James 'Red' Atkins
Eamonn Walker
Ellis 'Zee' Pettigrew
Johnny Messner
Kelly Lake
Nick Chinlund
Michael 'Slo' Slowenski
Tom Skerritt
Captain Bill Rhodes
Akosua Busia
Patience
Peter Mensah
Terwase
Malick Bowens
Colonel Idris Sadick
Chad Smith
Jason 'Flea' Mabry
Charles Ingram
Demetrius 'Silk' Owens
Paul Francis
Danny 'Doc' Kelley
Sammi Rotibi
Arthur Azuka
Jimmy Jean-Louis
Gideon
Awaovieyi Agie
Musa
Ida Onyango
Lasana
Benjamin Ochieng
Colonel Emanuel Okeze
Kanayo Chiemelu
General Mustafa Yakubu
Hadar Busia-Singleton
Amaka
Fabrice Yahve Habimana Jr.
Bujo
Fionnula Flanagan
Sister Grace
Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy
Sister Siobhan
Pierrino Mascarino
Father Gianni
Howard Mungo
President Samuel Azuka
Cle Sloan
Mission Rebel
Allison Dean
Rape Victim
Rodney Charles
Christopher Marwa
Jewel McDonald
Village Woman
Harry Van Gorkum
Carrier Reporter
Michael Clossin
Rhodes' Aide
Tears of the Sun Ratings & Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Fuqua ... can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
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?
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The 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.
Seattle Times
Mary Brennan
If it were better done, Tears would be offensive: the villains are evil, faceless, baby-murdering Muslims. But the movie is so shoddy and one-dimensional that it's just a dreary, predictably violent bore.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
By closing credits, I still wasn't sure why this utterly inconsequential and thoroughly depressing bloodbath was made.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
More brutally evil than Hitler's SS, the Nigerian rebels are about as one-sided a depiction of enemy soldiers you're apt to find this side of a John Wayne war movie. It's unsettling, and in the light of current events, almost unacceptable.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Shamelessly one-sided with cheesy wooden dialogue.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
Propaganda doesn't get any more entertaining.
Newsweek
David Ansen
The movie's noble aspirations are clear--Bosnia and Rwanda were obviously on the filmmakers' minds--yet it's hopelessly steeped in stale Hollywood action conventions.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Deserves the bad reviews and the lackluster earnings it has accumulated thus far.
Observer
Rex Reed
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.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
This Black Hawk Down theft is a trial by clich.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
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.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Scott Von Doviak
Tears is efficient and gets the job done -- but there's not much personality on display.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
This movie should have been called Crocodile Tears of the Sun.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The film is a strictly no-bull proposition.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
At 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.
Newsday
John Anderson
Painfully obvious, yet confusing.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Tears 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.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
Willis' performance redeems much of the film.
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