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Tears Of The Sun Movie Rating: 
Predictable | |
| This ode to military machismo, from director Antoine Fuqua, often comes off as little more than jingoistic propaganda. Bruce Willis plays Lt. A.K. Waters, a laughably stoic Navy SEAL sent to "extract" bosomy American doctor Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) from a war-torn area of Nigeria, where she has been volunteering. When Dr. Kendricks refuses to leave her charges behind, Waters initially refuses to alter the mission, then abruptly - and inexplicably - changes his mind. | |
| Thus begins a predictable trek to safety, with the one-dimensional U.S. "good guys" and the ludicrously helpless native "victims" being dogged by cardboard-cutout African rebel "evildoers" every step of the way. Amid rockets glaring and bombs bursting in air, the simplistic message that emerges is that, unquestionably, only America can save the world. |
Monica Bellucci and Bruce Willis.
©2003 Columbia TriStar. |
