Review of Tears of the Sun (2003) by Seth B — 07 Dec 2012
Liked Bruce Willis and I love Monica Bellucci. Offers nothing new to the military action stream, Tears of the Sun distinguishes itself with fine acting, expert craftsmanship, and seriousness of purpose.
Bruce Willis portrays a hard, following orders soldier who cannot afford to have emotions. A true hero in many regards. Monica Bellucci effectively plays her Doctor character down to a tee, who puts others before herself.
The whole film has some graphic violence and shows humanities atrocities onto humanity. What terrible things we do to each other, and that light and dark resides in any of us. Militia's and extreme insergents are all too real and this film seemed too real for my liking. No remorse, the rebel militia spare no woman, man not even the children.
Theres some brilliant action scenes in this that seem to come out at you when watching. Shooting, explosions, deadly accurate. War for all its faults.
Totally moving yet not one too watch depending on your mood or frame of mind, maintains its seriousness throughout and the end outcome is positive.
Feels like its been done before but still a good effort. No way as emotional and moving as Blood Diamond or as ferious and hard hitting as Black Hawk Down but i'd say somewhere in between.
Although the same director as Training Day I dont think he's totally got the whole War film thing down. Seems abit automated and robotic in its A to B manner.
A film that takes ages to get going yet when it does it really packs a punch.
This review of Tears of the Sun (2003) was written by Seth B on 07 Dec 2012.
Tears of the Sun has generally received positive reviews.
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