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	"Tears of the Sun" - Salon.com
		Bruce Willis is grizzled old-hand Navy SEAL Lt. A.K. Waters (in his first scene, the sun glints off his manly razor stubble magnificently), who has been assigned to lead a squadron deep into the jungle wilderness to retrieve an American-by-marriage doctor, Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), and escort her to safety.
		But what's deplorable about "Tears of the Sun" is that Fuqua is using depictions of these horrors to buy street cred for the slick ineptitude of the movie around them.
		"Tears of the Sun" is a weird blend of politically aware filmmaking and Hollywood hucksterism.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/03/07/tears_sun/index.html (1277 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tears of the Sun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tears of the Sun is a 2003 film directed by Antoine Fuqua.
		Dialogue in Tears of the Sun is largely confined to whispered conversations or moody monologues from Mr Willis.
		Tears of the Sun is presented in Widescreen enhanced for 16x9 televisions in a ratio of 2.35:1.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tears-of-the-Sun (876 words)

	Liquidtheater.Com: Tears of the Sun
		Tears of the Sun shows us horrifyingly vivid torture, violence, and inhumanity for the sake of a Bruce Willis Die Hard war movie.
		Tears of the Sun is based within the darkest depths of "ethnic cleansing" in Africa.
		I am inclined to say that Tears of the Sun is a US military propaganda film with the gung ho moral that all goodness comes out of the muzzels of American guns (and, of course, from the bombs of the U.S. Air Force).
	www.liquidtheater.com /review_467.html (851 words)

	Tears of the Sun movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		Tears of the Sun is a well-crafted militaristic film that is more of a drama than a pure action film.
		Monica Bellucci is a striking actress to watch work, with Tears of the Sun actually being one of her first Hollywood English speaking roles; she engulfs the screen and delivers emotional discoveries one after another as Dr. Hendricks.
		Tears of the Sun is a lot more than an action film; it is a striking militaristic drama.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/t/tearsofthesun.htm (2021 words)

	Tears of the Sun - Movie review
		Tears of the Sun begins with some real life news footage of violence and murder in the streets with a voice-over reporting on a brutal new civil war in Nigeria.
		Tears of the Sun is an intense and suspenseful action film depicting graphic and brutal violence.
		The major themes in Tears of the Sun are unselfish sacrifice and courage in the face of intense danger, compassion for the poor and needy, especially for widows and orphans, a passion for freedom, and the need for trust and teamwork.
	www.frontline.org.za /articles/tearsofthe_sun.htm (1209 words)

	Blu-ray Review: Tears of the Sun \| High-Def Digest
		'Tears of the Sun' is pissed off, it's director Antoine Fuqua is pissed off, and it seems Willis and the rest of the cast are pissed off, too.
		'Tears of the Sun' is full of close-ups of grizzled military men, and you could spend hours just freeze-framing images and counting every last follicle of stubble on Bruce Willis' five o'clock shadow.
		'Tears of the Sun' is just not a character piece, and all of those extra dialogue exchanges just serve to slow the film down and don't really enhance the film's message or its politics.
	bluray.highdefdigest.com /tearsofthesun.html (2054 words)

	Tears Of The Sun
		Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Tears of the Sun was originally scheduled to be released date in the Summer of 2002.
		Tears of the Sun was the title most often associated with Die Hard 4.
		Tears of the Sun's theme, aside coming in consonance with the appellation a section of the Ibos would like to describe the East, touches slightly around the Biafran war.
	www.firstuniversal.clara.net /tears-of-the-sun.html (1049 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Tears Of The Sun
		The Replacement Killers) was presented with an early draft of Tears of the Sun.
		Tears failed to garner an audience because it doesn't succeed in either function, and we are only slightly more enlightened and only mildly entertained.
		Tears of the Sun is found guilty for not fulfilling Fuqua's ambitious purpose and is hereby sentenced to one month probation.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/tearssun.php (2927 words)

	Tears of the Sun Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tears of the Sun is not your average multiplex fodder.
		In Tears, however, a Navy SEAL team led by Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Willis) is dropped into the midst of the slaughter, and, being sentient human beings, the men are sickened by what they witness transpiring around them.
		Tears of the Sun should be condemned for cheapening the tragedy of West Africa's civil wars with a cheesy plot.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=137422 (1213 words)

	such10.de - Tears Of The Sun Bruce Willis
		Tears of the Sun (2003): Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser,...
		Bruce Willis is a baldy in his new war film, Tears of the Sun (Columbia), and the camera revolves around his dome like a helicopter around Mount...
		The Popkorn Junkie :: Tears of the Sun
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	Movie Photos: Tears of the Sun
		Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci in Columbia's Tears of the Sun - 2003
		Monica Bellucci in Columbia's Tears of the Sun - 2003
		Cole Hauser in Columbia's Tears of the Sun - 2003
	www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2003_Tears_of_the_Sun_photo.html (790 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Tears Of The Sun (xhtml)
		"Tears of the Sun" is a film constructed out of rain, cinematography and the face of bruce willis.
		The last half hour of "Tears of the Sun," with its routine gun battles, explosions, machine-gun bursts, is made from off-the-shelf elements.
		There is a way in which movies like "Tears of the Sun" can be enjoyed for their very texture.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030307/REVIEWS/303070304/1023 (842 words)

	Het Parool - FILM
		Alex Lasker en Patrick Cirillo begonnen in 1995 al aan hun scenario voor Tears of the sun.
		Tears of the sun ging vlak voor de Amerikaanse inval in Irak in première en kan nu gemakkelijk worden opgevat als propaganda voor het Amerikaanse optreden, ook al speelt het verhaal zich af in Afrika.
		Dat die wereld in Tears of the sun wordt vertegenwoordigd door een commando-eenheid onder leiding van Bruce Willis in een van zijn meest stereotiepe rollen kan je dan weer rustig een typisch staaltje Amerikaans egocentrisme noemen.
	www.parool.nl /artikelen/FIL/1068618333046.html (245 words)

	DVD Times - Tears Of The Sun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tears Of The Sun is the first major film to deal with tribal warfare and ethnic cleansing in the African continent.
		Scripts often take many years to reach the screen however and by an unfortunate accident of fate, Tears Of The Sun was finally made and released in America during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which, in the opinion of many, was an unnecessary war fought for dubious reasons.
		Tears Of The Sun is in no way awful but nor does it quite succeed on any level.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5625 (1355 words)

	EI > Reviews > Tears of the Sun (2003)
		Antione Fuqua's "Tears of the Sun" is a brutally poetic examination of the United States role as sole super power in the world today.
		"Tears of the Sun" ends with the quote by Edmund Burke: "All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing." Fuqua's "Tears of the Sun" examines that conflict in the heart of an American Navy officer.
		"Tears of the Sun" centers on a rescue mission into the jungles of Nigeria during a military coup.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/tearsofthesun.php (1046 words)

	Tears Of The Sun - Movie Review
		In the rose-colored military world of "Tears of the Sun," orders from superior officers are little more than suggestions and the mighty United States war machine always does the right and righteous thing.
		But if "Tears of the Sun" takes place in a fantasy world where the American military is that altruistic anyway -- albeit passively so at the command level -- then the point of such a message is lost.
		Tears of the sun is the best movie i have ever seen.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/tearsofsun (885 words)

	movie review \| tears of the sun (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tears of the Sun goes from being a glum, dispirited sort of action flick to a fantasy of intervention, a chance to wonder just how military strength might have changed history in Somalia, Kosovo and, especially, Rwanda.
		When they come across the scene of an ethnic cleansing in progress, Willis and his men decisively intervene, their simmering outrage finding a target in the rebel platoon of killers and torturers, the worst of which is dispatched with relish by Willis’ second-in-command, played by Oz’s Eamonn Walker.
		The director won, and despite an unfortunate but inevitable ending that gushes saccharine idealism, Tears of the Sun might be remembered as the movie that tried to sell the concept of a just war when talking about war in any positive light was popularly unfashionable.
	www.rickmcginnis.com /movies/tearsofthesun.htm (489 words)

	Tears of the Sun
		Directed by Antoine "Training Day" Fuqua, Tears of the Sun stars Bruce Willis as Lt. Waters, the leader of an American special-ops group who are sent into the dense jungles of Nigeria to rescue Médecins Sans Frontières doctor Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), who finds herself in danger when rebels overthrow the Government.
		What makes Tears of the Sun different from, say, Pirates of the Caribbean, is that it all actually comes together well, with the disparate elements working as a seamless whole.
		Tears of the Sun, taken at face value, is a good score - I thoroughly enjoy listening to it, and the bringing together of the various disparate elements do make for a tremendously entertaining album.
	www.moviemusicuk.us /tearsuncd.htm (981 words)

	OnWisconsin Live Movies: Tears of the Sun
		But it takes viewers only a few minutes to see that "Tears of the Sun" is less a timely film illuminating current geopolitical realities than a hokey spawn of "The Green Berets," "Collateral Damage" and "Black Hawk Down" - with the screenplay, dialogue and characters much more similar to the first two.
		Bruce Willis is the head of an elite squad sent into a mountainous jungle region of Nigeria, where a coup, along with some ethnic cleansing, is in progress.
		"Tears of the Sun" has its share of moments of suspense and menace, such as when the rebels almost catch up with the evacuation mission crew and when the evacuees spy on the atrocities committed by the rebels.
	www.onwisconsin.com /movies/movie.asp?id=747 (535 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Tears Of The Sun
		Ironic, how "Tears of the Sun" is occasionally so dark that the action and characters appear as nothing but obscure shadows.
		One part unconvincing, jingoistic war picture and one part melodramatic, preachy hogwash, "Tears of the Sun" is a slow-paced slog that adds up to not much more than a sour taste in the viewer's mouth.
		If nothing notable occurs in the first 90 minutes of "Tears of the Sun," then the final half-hour is a "been-there-done-that" battle sequence that succumbs into shameless bottom-feeding and a happy ending that can't be bought for a second.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-5/tears-of-the-sun.htm (536 words)

	Tears of the Sun
		Though a fictionalization, Tears of the Sun deals with the gritty realism of human conflict as Lt. Waters travels to war-torn central Africa to rescue Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a U.S. citizen who runs a mission in the countryside.
		What I loved about the first half of “Tears of the Sun” was that it seemed so raw, almost as if we had an inside view of a military operation.
		By the time “Tears of the Sun” reaches its chaotic climax, it has lost almost all of the momentum it built in its first half.
	movies.zertinet.com /2003/tearsofthesun.htm (921 words)

	Movie Review -- "Tears of the Sun" -- Minorities Global Village (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first I heard of "Tears of the Sun" was a month ago when someone posted a pre-release promotional clipping about the movie on Naijanet -- one of several Nigerian newsgroups on the Internet.
		Tears of the Sun, at least, seems to have some respect for Nigerian soldiery -- unlike Dogs of War, that other simpleton of a movie that saw a handful of Westerners fly in, defeat an African army and takeover the government in one afternoon.
		'Tears of the Sun' is an insidious little piece of propaganda that exploits existing regional fissures in the Nigerian polity.
	imdiversity.com /villages/global/arts_culture_media/tears_of_the_sun.asp (929 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly: TEARS OF THE SUN (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the war-torn Tears takes the soldierly detachment of its characters at the outset—and the distance it seems to purposely put between this movie and its audience—and spins it into the connective tissue to an emotional journey.
		With much of Tears of the Sun taking us along for the jungle stalking by rebels of fleeing refugees and their American guardians, the artfully muddy jungle landscape virtually becomes another character.
		Tears of the Sun provides him probably less dialogue to work with than any of his starring gigs to date, but he maximizes it, painting a character whose reserved, tightly-coiled exterior barely budges even as his emotional core undergoes a seismic shift.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2003/03_06/cinema_screen1.html (961 words)

	Tears of the Sun
		Tears of the Sun suffered at the box office, and received reviews which were mixed at best.
		It is fair to say, that Tears of the Sun could have been much better than it turned out to be.
		Despite Fuqua's attempt to bring social issues to light, I left Tears of the Sun thinking it was a so-so film, even though it was entertaining, and in some circumstances, gripping.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/Q-T/tears_of_the_sun.html (1449 words)

	Tears of the Sun Reviews
		TEARS OF THE SUN (director: Antoine Fuqua; screenwriters: Alex Lasker/Patrick Cirillo; cinematographer: Mauro Fiore; editor: Conrad Buff; music: Hans Zimmer; cast: Bruce Willis (Lt. A.K. Waters), Monica Bellucci (Dr. Lena Hendricks), Cole Hauser (Red...
		Susan Granger's review of "Tears of the Sun" (Columbia Pictures) Given the current geo-political tensions, the timing's right for this heroic military action thriller in which Bruce Willis, as Lieut.
		If I didn't know any better (and I usually don't), I'd swear Tears of the Sun was a film whipped up by the White House to help sell their war in Iraq.
	www.killermovies.com /t/tearsofthesun/reviews (321 words)

	Tears of the Sun (Soundtrack) by Hans Zimmer
		Tears of the Sun (Soundtrack) by Hans Zimmer
		Measuring the action and atmosphere out in careful proportions, I tend to get the impression that this album is formatted in a kind of 3-act structure, as the music tends to peak every third track (tracks 3, 6, and 9), and, of those three, each one builds and builds in intensity.
		All artwork from Tears of the Sun is exclusive property of Varese Sarabande Records (c) 2003.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/tears_sun.htm (872 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tears of the Sun: Video
		Because of the intense political nature of Tears of the Sun, it's no surprise that a good deal of the DVD content is devoted to the political and historical background of Africa.
		Where "Tears of the Sun" fails to succeed is in it's somewhat one-dimensional and shallow aproach at including policical and social messages, and in it's seeming impotence at crossing the lines from mediocrity to greatness.
		"Tears of the sun" does win points however for atleast trying to shed some public light to the attrocities in africa that most of the world lives happily ignorant to.
	www.amazon.ca /Tears-of-the-Sun/dp/B000096IBT (2192 words)

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