Tears of the Sun (2003)

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

First of all this movie has given me a brutal reality of people living in the revolted nation . Honestly i have never seen such intense action film from a long time .Acting of an Akosua Busia is so real ."The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke . This will be the line we will remember at the end of this movie .Its an intense movie with lots of ethnic cleaning incidents Director Antoine Fuqua has made this things look like real . So for children's its not advisable .Acting of Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci were superb . Frankly i watched this movie behalf of Monica Bellucci :) . However this movie is not that kind , its a war movie with intense story .I am surprised by the rating of 6.6 to this movie . It should be greater than 7 . Probably all of the critics see the things which i have not .

i thought it was going be the godawful tripe were used to,tough guy invincible American military men with the obligatory heart of gold. tittylicious,patronizing do-gooder hot chick and hapless natives. but then the heartbreaking very realistic violence,very well captured with a very deep understanding of the modern "civil war" ,which the last century is less civil conflict between armed opposing factions but more full scale genocidal death match. the combination of the cartoonish,paint by numbrs actionmovie,with the ridiculous premise(it happens in Nigeria ,a fairly modern and well organized country,covert seal operation to extract four civilians,that arn't in any way important,well connected or even actual u.s. citizens) makes this movie a brilliant analogy for American foreign intervention. they go in for selfish,trivial reasons. try to do some genuine good ,but its all deconstructive and futile,in they end they leave the vast majority behind without hope even more traumatised and now armed themselves. and as usual they're championing a scammer. (nigerian prince,duh!) .

Movie is amazingly done. Bruce Willis aces again in his performance and the characters in the movie are very much likable. Yeah, we all know that movie like this is gonna go down with almost every character being a made-to-die kind of mannerism. But the intelligent characterization in this movie is none of the actors seemed to be too baffled with the problems and as the movie paces on, they accept a mission just for the order from mission leader and later get to grip on whats happening around in that place.This makes you feel so brutal, a Holocaust even in a mellowed down version will still look painful and the actors feel it. They are no way related to whats happening, they were in for a quick extraction mission but still when people are slaughtered they move from their Robot mindset to a more human perception, that right there will make you feel involved in the movie as much as the actors.The movie starts off very swiftly, and i was sure movies such as that will end in a rush, and it did. That's why i believe movie should take its time to pace in (Saving private Ryan, Black Hawk down, Hurt Locker) and then we might have a very surreal experience. I guess the director decided to end it just because he ran out of options, which is a bit cheesy.Monica bellucci should stick to modeling, i guess this part was one of her better ones, but still flat acting throughout, which is a let down. Overall, a good movie, not for the light-hearted.

The story is set around a very important topic of our times - ethnic cleansing and war torn Africa. Stellar cast raise the expectations from the flick.However the weaving of the story and script writing could have been a lot better. Instead one has to satisfy with just the vivid action sequences and use of expensive war crafts. Some efforts into direction could have taken the movie to another level. Some glaring inconsistencies put off an average viewer even before the exciting twists emerge.Overall it gives a feeling of wastage of great cast and even greater theme.