Tears of the Sun

Tears of the Sun

While it offers nothing new to the military action genre, Tears of the Sun distinguishes itself with fine acting, expert craftsmanship, and seriousness of purpose. Its familiar "extraction mission" plot is essentially similar to that of Black Hawk Down, involving a crack team of U.S. Special Ops commandos struggling to rescue innocent missionaries amidst the bloody horror of Nigerian ethnic cleansing. With Bruce Willis as their grizzled, no-nonsense commander, the skillful team enters a hot zone that gets even hotter when their "package"--an American national (Monica Bellucci) who runs the isolated mission--demands that 70 Nigerian villagers be included in the rescue. Willis's uneasy conscience leads him to defy orders and expand his mission, and in an ambitious follow up to Training Day, director Antoine Fuqua escalates tension and strike-force with considerable emotional impact. Originally considered as a potential entry in Willis's Die Hard series, and released on the eve of America's war with Iraq, Tears of the Sun admirably avoids jingoism with its rousing story of personal good vs. political evil. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Antoine Fuqua
Stars: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Monica Bellucci, Eamonn Walker, Johnny Messner
Production: Columbia Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
48
Rotten Tomatoes:
33%
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R (Restricted)
Year:
2003
121
$43,426,961
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Father Gianni:
Go with God!

Lt. A.K. Waters:
God already left Africa.

Ellis 'Zee' Pettigrew:
What are you doin'? New mission?

Lt. A.K. Waters:
No. Same mission.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
What've you got?

Kelly Lake:
Ringside seats to an ethnic cleansing.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
Sir, you know as well as I do what's going to happen to him if I leave him out here. There's not going to be a trial. There's not going to be a jury. There gonna take him outside the courthouse and put two in his head.

Kelly Lake:
Sir, Rules of Engagement?

Capt. Bill Rhodes:
You will defend yourselves if you're fired upon, otherwise do not engage.

Ellis 'Zee' Pettigrew:
LT! Rules of Engagement!

Lt. A.K. Waters:
We're already engaged.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
Here's the deal: it's been strongly suggested that we turn over Arthur and abandon these refugees out here in the bush. I'll tell you right now: I'm not gonna do that. Can't do that. Broke my own rule - started to give a f***. And brought you guys along with me. We're about to walk into some serious sh*t. Before we do, I just like to hear what you guys have to say about it. That's all. Speak freely.

Kelly Lake:
My opinion, Sir: we cut our losses. This isn't our f***in' war. As far as me being in or out, you know the answer to that.

Danny 'Doc' Kelley:
Let's get these people to safety. Let's finish the job.

Demetrius 'Silk' Owens:
I can't leave 'em, Sir.

Jason 'Flea' Mabry:
I'm good to go.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
What 'bout you, Red?

James 'Red' Atkins:
I can't look at 'em like packages anymore. I'm gonna get 'em out or I'm gonna die tryin'.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
I broke my own rule. I started to give a f***... and I brought you guys along with me.

Ellis 'Zee' Pettigrew:
Those Africans are my people too. For all the years that we have been told to stand down and stand by, you doin' the right thing.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
For our sins.

Ellis 'Zee' Pettigrew:
Hooyah.

Lt. A.K. Waters:
Hooyah.

Danny 'Doc' Kelley:
How can they do this?

Patience:
This what they do. They cut off the breasts of nursing mothers... so that they'll never again feed their own babies. This is what they do.

Michael 'Slo' Slowenski:
Are we there yet?

Patience:
We love you, Lena. All of us. We will always love you.

Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks:
I love you too.

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  • Steven Gambrel
    Steven Gambrel
    I took the quote from Sir Edmond Burke with me to Iraq in 2005-2006. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing “. Thanks for the inspiration.
    LikeReply 24 years ago

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