Awaovieyi Agie, Bruce Willis, Chad Smith
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surro...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 10, 2003
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Stats: 4,759 reviews
Flixster Reviews (4,759)
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September 17, 2009Tears of the Sun is a touching modern war film. I didn?t have much expectation before I watched it but I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.
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May 13, 2009"What've you got?
- Ringside seats to an ethnic cleansing."
'Tears of the Sun' is a typical search and rescue film that suddenly gets too much of heart. By this the film delivers some dramatic images that may seem a bit tough to look at.
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December 7, 2008Always have trouble with action films that try to shoehorn in politics. Usually doesn't work. This is no exception.
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July 8, 2008The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
This film is not only a war film. It is something else. It tries to show audiences the horrors of civil unrest and ethnic cleansing but sadly they tried too hard to get it acros...( read more) -
May 18, 2008I found it funny at the start where Willis gets out of the copter, looking all badass and macho honcho.
The twist was pretty, ok I guess. I liked the infiltration scenes and the brutal scenes, but somewhere near the end I started laughing, cuz of the erm.. fireworks and how ...( read more) -
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November 18, 2009about one SEAL tean that help a nigerean villagers from killed by their army...
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November 11, 2009the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
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Critic Reviews
March 12, 2003
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
March 7, 2003
Claudia Puig, USA Today
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.... full review
March 7, 2003
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
The audience's tears are more likely to result from boredom, irritation at Hans Zimmer's wretched fake-world-music score and inadvertent amusement at the thunderously earnest dialogue and Ms. Bellucci... full review
March 7, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Until it descends into mindless routine action in the climactic scenes, Tears of the Sun is essentially an impressionistic nightmare ... full review
March 7, 2003
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Can Bruce Willis save Africa from the Africans? Not in Antoine Fuqua's overwrought, blood-drenched fable of bogus Hollywood heroism, he can't. full review
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June 9, 2007Hmm, Nigeria>civil war>ethnic clensing>Cameroon border, hey people wake up! It looks like no one had done any home work here! The film is referring to the Biafra war in a confused clumsy way. It may be that since there is a strong US interest in the oil in that region the producers decideded to avoid more direct connection to it. It sad that no one has realized this and shows that reviewers are not aware of the history in the region. OK it happened most likekely before they were born (1967-1970), but it is no excuse, do a proper research before you write. It is so easy to Goggle this days. I happened to be in the northern part Nigeria for the first half of this war and I was a teen, but remember well the political propaganda went on there as well as some of the ethnic clensing. I almost forgot all of this and have to thank the producers of this film to remind me and hopefully many others.
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January 29, 2007this is one of the best movies i have ever seen.A must see movie for military thriller fans
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