Storyline
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
Directors
Cast
Peter Mensah, Bruce Willis, Eamonn Walker, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Nick Chinlund, Sammi Rotibi, Harry Van Gorkum, Johnny Messner, Fionnula Flanagan, Tom Skerritt, Malick Bowens, Cle Shaheed Sloan, Howard Mungo, Michael Clossin, Charles Ingram, Paul Francis, Chad Smith, Awaovieyi Agie, Akosua Busia, Ida Onyango, Benjamin Ochieng, Kanayo Chiemelu, Hadar Busia-Singleton, Fabrice Yahve Habimana Jr., Jimmy Jean-Louis, Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy, Pierrino Mascarino, Allison Dean, Rodney Charles, Jewel McDonald
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Reviews
80
Dallas Observer
The movie remains engaging, with a couple of sequences verging on stunning.
80
Chicago Reader
By turns morally compelling and racially paternalistic, this provocative drama may be the first halfway truthful war movie to hit multiplexes since "Three Kings."
75
ReelViews
Fuqua takes a genre picture and, by diverting the story onto an unconventional path, generates a sense of urgency. Tears of the Sun is not a great movie, but it is satisfying, and represents an example of accomplished filmmaking.
75
Baltimore Sun
Whenever its noble aims miss, Bruce Willis saves it.
70
The New Yorker
Tears of the Sun may be a flattering myth, but it’s not a bad myth to be flattered by. [17 March 2003, p. 154]
