Tears of the Sun (2003)

One of the best depictions of what it's really like in a civil war in Africa, I remember Rwanda on the news and that was horrendous, this movie doesn't push it that far or it would have been R rated, the actors done a great job of depicting the struggle between what's right and orders. 9/10

I've always had a penchant for films set in the jungle, and TEARS OF THE SUN makes excellent use of some sweaty jungle locales in its story of US soldiers battling Nigerian rebels. It's a story of human drama masquerading as a war movie, and action lovers will be disappointed as all of the gun battles are saved for the (admittedly spectacular) last half hour. Before then we get a film based on real-life events that runs the gamut of emotions, from courage to anger, fear to bravery and everything in between.It's nothing new, but benefits from some superb acting from the assembled cast members: Bruce Willis, as silent and stern as ever, acts with just his eyes for the most part and gets the viewer totally on-side; Monica Bellucci is utterly beautiful and tough as the doctor working against the odds, and the rest of the American soldiers are also brilliant – including Cole Hauser as a tough cookie and Tom Skerritt as a grizzled veteran. Well-shot, well directed, and with plenty of story and emotion to keep it going, at first glance this might be typical gung-ho adventure stuff but it's much more. It's got heart and conscience and it never disappoints despite the lengthy running time. A solid thriller.

More Hollywood macho American nonsense. There's nothing wrong with that - if it's entertaining. But if it irritates then it's just painful. A lot of it was irritating because it was such a dumbed down, make it simple because the audience are stupid and won't ask any questions. Why didn't they just pick her up and leave. ?So many more questions why? are they retarded ? are they stupid? WTF !It's the classic nonsense that America doesn't interfere in foreign wars, and certainly never, ever kills anyone. Soldiers only do whats right. etcBruce Willis is always good to watch as the struggling good guy overcoming his orders and he carries what otherwise would be a C rate nonsensical action movie. As is, its a B rate watch after 5 beers if your feeling gung ho and have fond memories of Die Hard. (which was so much more plausible than this)6/10 watch once, too irritating to watch twice.

I wonder what happened to this Bruce Willis i mean he made this movie then Sin City, 16 Blocks and Die Hard 4.0 what the hell happened after that? Tears of the Sun is an amazing example of humanity and courage to not hate the people who are next to us. Of course some people won't like it because they will say that it's Propaganda and just a typical action movie and yes it does have action and some very rough scenes to watch but it talks about war and it's something that still happens it's not some PG-13 War film starring Shia Labeouf i mean common it supposed to be dark, gritty and have action it's a war movie and it succeeds in everything it also has a very touching ending i liked it a lot.