Tears of the Sun (Special Edition)
starring: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Monica Bellucci, Eamonn Walker, Johnny Messner
directed by: Antoine Fuqua
directed by: Antoine Fuqua
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A special-ops commander leads his team into the jungle of nigeria to rescue a doctor who will only go with them if they agree to rescue 70 refugees too.Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 10/04/2005Starring: Bruce Willis Cole HauserRun time: 121 minutesRating: RDirector: Antoine Fuqua
Amazon.com:
While it offers nothing new to the military action genre, Tears of the Sun distinguishes itself with fine acting, expert craftsmanship, and seriousness of purpose. Its familiar "extraction mission" plot is essentially similar to that of Black Hawk Down, involving a crack team of U.S. Special Ops commandos struggling to rescue innocent missionaries amidst the bloody horror of Nigerian ethnic cleansing. With Bruce Willis as their grizzled, no-nonsense commander, the skillful team enters a hot zone that gets even hotter when their "package"--an American national (Monica Bellucci) who runs the isolated mission--demands that 70 Nigerian villagers be included in the rescue. Willis's uneasy conscience leads him to defy orders and expand his mission, and in an ambitious follow up to Training Day, director Antoine Fuqua escalates tension and strike-force with considerable emotional impact. Originally considered as a potential entry in Willis's Die Hard series, and released on the eve of America's war with Iraq, Tears of the Sun admirably avoids jingoism with its rousing story of personal good vs. political evil. --Jeff Shannon
A special-ops commander leads his team into the jungle of nigeria to rescue a doctor who will only go with them if they agree to rescue 70 refugees too.Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 10/04/2005Starring: Bruce Willis Cole HauserRun time: 121 minutesRating: RDirector: Antoine Fuqua
Amazon.com:
While it offers nothing new to the military action genre, Tears of the Sun distinguishes itself with fine acting, expert craftsmanship, and seriousness of purpose. Its familiar "extraction mission" plot is essentially similar to that of Black Hawk Down, involving a crack team of U.S. Special Ops commandos struggling to rescue innocent missionaries amidst the bloody horror of Nigerian ethnic cleansing. With Bruce Willis as their grizzled, no-nonsense commander, the skillful team enters a hot zone that gets even hotter when their "package"--an American national (Monica Bellucci) who runs the isolated mission--demands that 70 Nigerian villagers be included in the rescue. Willis's uneasy conscience leads him to defy orders and expand his mission, and in an ambitious follow up to Training Day, director Antoine Fuqua escalates tension and strike-force with considerable emotional impact. Originally considered as a potential entry in Willis's Die Hard series, and released on the eve of America's war with Iraq, Tears of the Sun admirably avoids jingoism with its rousing story of personal good vs. political evil. --Jeff Shannon
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Not worthwhile
Picture quality is impacted because so much of this film is shot in very dark conditions. Also, someone on the production team seems to think that Bruce Willis' face can be substituted for good scenery.I bet his face took up half of the overall area on film for this movie. My biggest single gripe is that I found the plot completely implausible, and the characters impossible to get attached to.
Rating: 
- 'War Movie' With A Noble Message
The is a solid "war" movie with U.S. Navy Seals, led by Bruce Willis, rescuing an American doctor and 70 of her patients from war-torn Nigeria. This is violent and bloody in parts but definitely not another war flick overdone with violence.
This is beautifully-filmed, artistic in spots and I'm curious what the Blu-Ray version looks like.The sound is excellent, too.
National critics didn't like this movie. I suspect one big reason is that they are used to seeing films in ... Read More
Rating: - "God already left Africa..."
Tears of the Sun sheds light (as it should do) on the reality of what is going on in much of Africa: war, atrocities, child soldiers, refugees, bad governance/corruption, and the scrambling for natural resources. An elite unit of U.S. NAVY SEALs is ordered into Nigeria to escort an American doctor and three Europeans (a Catholic priest and two nuns) to safety, following a coup staged by the northern Muslim Fulani tribe against the southern Christian Ibo tribe for control of the oil-rich nation. During ... Read More
Rating: 
- Great movie, good story and full of action
In this movie, Bruce Willis is part of a Special Forces unit that is deployed into a war-torn part of Africa with instructions to certain extract US citizens that are working at a missionary.Willis and his team battle and evade a large force that is quickly tracking them throughout there journey to the extraction zone.Along the way they confront and eliminate a group of men that are carrying out their mission of ethnic cleansing.While this is nothing like the Die Hard series, this is still a very ... Read More
Rating: 
- terrible movie
This is probably the worst Bruce Willis movie, and that's saying a lot. The acting is stiff and the plot is thin. Not even all the action scenes can make up for it. The parts that are supposed to be emotional are dry and unconvincing. The movie is, in a word, boring. I'm glad I rented this one and didn't buy it. I would have given it one star, but the action was pretty decent.
- Not worthwhilePicture quality is impacted because so much of this film is shot in very dark conditions. Also, someone on the production team seems to think that Bruce Willis' face can be substituted for good scenery.I bet his face took up half of the overall area on film for this movie. My biggest single gripe is that I found the plot completely implausible, and the characters impossible to get attached to.
- 'War Movie' With A Noble MessageThe is a solid "war" movie with U.S. Navy Seals, led by Bruce Willis, rescuing an American doctor and 70 of her patients from war-torn Nigeria. This is violent and bloody in parts but definitely not another war flick overdone with violence.
This is beautifully-filmed, artistic in spots and I'm curious what the Blu-Ray version looks like.The sound is excellent, too.
National critics didn't like this movie. I suspect one big reason is that they are used to seeing films in ... Read More
- "God already left Africa..."Tears of the Sun sheds light (as it should do) on the reality of what is going on in much of Africa: war, atrocities, child soldiers, refugees, bad governance/corruption, and the scrambling for natural resources. An elite unit of U.S. NAVY SEALs is ordered into Nigeria to escort an American doctor and three Europeans (a Catholic priest and two nuns) to safety, following a coup staged by the northern Muslim Fulani tribe against the southern Christian Ibo tribe for control of the oil-rich nation. During ... Read More
- Great movie, good story and full of actionIn this movie, Bruce Willis is part of a Special Forces unit that is deployed into a war-torn part of Africa with instructions to certain extract US citizens that are working at a missionary.Willis and his team battle and evade a large force that is quickly tracking them throughout there journey to the extraction zone.Along the way they confront and eliminate a group of men that are carrying out their mission of ethnic cleansing.While this is nothing like the Die Hard series, this is still a very ... Read More
- terrible movieThis is probably the worst Bruce Willis movie, and that's saying a lot. The acting is stiff and the plot is thin. Not even all the action scenes can make up for it. The parts that are supposed to be emotional are dry and unconvincing. The movie is, in a word, boring. I'm glad I rented this one and didn't buy it. I would have given it one star, but the action was pretty decent.
