GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

wrathofvengeance In my mind, very few war movies have what it takes to depict the deadliness and sharp minded honed warrior psychology of an elite killing machine. This movie is more than just a war movie, it's a testament to hunters of the shadows, to demons in your sleep, it lends a vision into United States Navy SEALs that wait in the waters edge as you fetch a basket by the river or who keenly train their eyes on your movements in the dark green fizzled hue of night vision optics. It's got that....aurora about it. A mysticism surrounding the modern elite. When these modern elite are sent into the jungles of Africa their mission is simple; ascertain a western doctor in a feel good near Yolingo and bring her back to the extraction point. Things don't turn out as they seem, and so this SEAL team is forced to hike to the nearest extraction with more than what they bargained for. Hot on their tails are an entire rebel army, who vigorously peruse the SEAL team through rain, wind and weather. What follows is perhaps the coolest depiction of jungle combat, clandestine ops and hidden concealment. Tears of the Sun, a classic in its own right.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Tears Of The Sun" (2003)This technically-flawless war-action-movie directed Antoine Fuqua, who chose his follow-up picture to "Training Day" (2001) in order to work with Hollywood Star Bruce Willis, portraying Lieutenant A.K. Waters as leader of a team of Navy Seals special forces with facial-striking concerns, who needs to enter hostile rebel territory in central Nigeria, when a fictitiously post-civil-war, in the 1960s, collapsing democratic government gets over-run by an ultra-violent rebel army, who kills every rural villages in their path to control further regions of natural resources for an international black market, when the Seals team gets the assignment to retrieve a solely operating female Doctor with no further background story, performed by put-into-emotional-restraints actress Monica Bellucci, in the deepest green jungle scenarios of highly-visceral machine-gun combat action captured in excellent-executed visuals by cinematographer Mauro Fiore, who can not save the picture produced by high-scale war-action-pushing Producer Ian Bryce from falling short by being pretentious in its simple conception of just bringing a western-educated academic woman into safety from a constant-raging guerilla war tactics, when denied visualization of aftermath village massacres in population-starving agony gets exchanged for continuous suspense-loss, out-going from a thin originally-conceived screenplay by writers Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo, who hardly found an emotional peak to make "Tears Of The Sun" stand out from a crowd of modern warfare motion pictures.Nevertheless boot-camp-prepared supporting cast members including Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker and Tom Skerritt as combat-jet-carrier stationed Captain Bill Rhodes put authentic U.S. military atmosphere in the high-profile Columbia Pictures presented movie, when talented director Antoine Fuqua avoids to break free from the shooting draft to improvise a desperately needed bonding scene between extreme-situations-enduring main characters of Lieutenant Waters and Doctor Kendricks; the showdown stays visually compelling in a sky-rocketing bullet-storms and a massive napalm explosion, mimicking obviously a superior "Apocalypse Now" (1979) opening shot, when this war-action-movie fades again in forfeited consequence of an important opportunity to put out an "Anti-War-Campaigning" post-curtains-enduring message into "Tears Of The Sun" with respects to a still-war-struggled continent of Africa.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Rahul M A veteran "Special-Ops commander" decides to defy direct orders and decides to take on a mission to save 70 odd refugees while putting his men's life at risk out of the blue. The rationale to take such a drastic decision is never fully explained.The commander also willfully interferes with internal politics of the country, by choosing to protect the son of the president son, from the rebel forces.This movie tries to brew a strange cocktail of human suffering and action and doesn't do a good job at either of them. A painful watch.

tiger86-2 OK, before I continue with the actual review, I want to make one thing clear - I believe Antoine Fuqua is among the best action profiled film directors ever. The man is a real master of the genre, being able to do a Die Hard type of an action film just as easily as he is able to adopt John Woo's style when he needs to. And 'Tears of the Sun' is yet another proof of that - the action scenes are nicely staged, the visuals are very good, the pacing is fine...And, still, I just couldn't finish it? Well, first, there is the acting - while Bruce Willis is as great as he always is, Monica Belluci is just horrible. Honestly, I think this woman only has a career because of her looks and for no other reason. (Or may be she is better when she isn't acting in English. I have seen some French speaking roles of hers and I didn't hate her.) There is no doubt that she is incredibly beautiful, but her role here requires more than beauty - to be blunt, when you are supposed to be an incredibly talented doctor, shoving your breasts in the viewers' eyes just can't cut it. Not when the movie is so serious in tone - and 'Tears of the Sun' is dead serious.Which leads me to the next problem of this movie - the writing. Normally I wouldn't comment on a movie's writing if I haven't seen it in its entirety, but this time I just have to - because it is horrible. The tone is, as I said, dead serious, but, at the same time, the main characters are just... Well, they are the Expendables - a bunch of indestructible warriors, capable of killing hundreds of enemies, they will save the day, they will save the world, they will save the beautiful doctor with the big breasts and they will do it for America!!! And there would be no problem with that if the movie was a comedy like 'The Expendables'. But when the filmmakers are trying to actually convey a message... Well, it doesn't ring true, to say the least.And I wanted to like this movie.