I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

" Tears of the Sun " .A good movie, in my opinion. The seemingly simple story, turned into a war drama, full of uncertain events and the emotional moments, which effectively link the action through the Nigerian jungle, through a civil war that has claimed a lot of unnecessary casualties. Good film for action films, which I don't like a lot.Movie also have a little stupid, American fittings, "we are good guys and rescue some black people there". Bruce Willis make face like a real dangerous guy, Monica Bellucci wasn't fastened her shirt in all film, which was a nice movie scene

I originally watched "Tears of the Sun" with some friends in 2003, when it was officially released in theaters. I was still pretty young, at the time (16 years old, still in high school), so my knowledge of war and conflict was pretty bleak. Also, this was literally right around, or before, March 20th, which is when the US waged the War In Iraq. I'm not sure if this was just pure coincidence by the Director, Antoine Fuqua, but it happened to line up almost to the day of one of the biggest wars in American history.Since I was pretty uneducated on what war was back then, the movie really opened my eyes to the brutality of it all, and that only further peaked my interest. One thing I loved was the realness of how the characters interacted with one another, calling each other by nicknames, remaining very stoic in their mannerisms and how they speak, and of course, how they acted like real Navy SEALs, who are known to be some of the toughest members of any branch of the military, because of the particular type of training they go through. I also thought the battle scenes, where both sides are fighting one another, or a sniper is shooting the enemy from a long distance, seemed realistic, and definitely keep me on the edge of my seat. It's not easy to choreograph this kind of stuff, so it looked really convincing to me.After initially watching the movie in 2003, I had gone several years not seeing it, again, until it was shown on a premium movie channel, which lead to me watching the movie multiple times after that on cable television. I loved the movie so much after seeing it so many times that I decided to buy the DVD, then I kept watching it on DVD, or seeing it shown on cable television. To this day, I still watch "Tears of the Sun" when it airs, and enjoy it, just as much as I always did.As for the movie, itself, it's a very harrowing story of eight Navy SEALs, who are forced to rescue an American doctor (by marriage), two nuns and a priest out of a village in Nigeria, so as to bring them to safety in Cameroon. Unfortunately, this team of SEALS had just completed a difficult mission, but this next one was expected to be simple and quick. The team is headed by Lieutenant A.K. Waters, nicknamed "LT" (Bruce Willis), with seven other SEALs: James Atkins, nicknamed "Red" (Cole Hauser); Ellis Pettigrew, nicknamed "Zee (Eamonn Walker); Kelly Lake (Johnny Messner), referred to by his last name, Lake; Michael Slowenski, nicknamed "Slo" (Nick Chinlund); Demetrius Owens, nicknamed "Silk" (Charles Ingram); Danny Kelley, nicknamed "Doc" (Paul Francis); Jason Mabry, nicknamed "Flea" (Chad Smith).Without giving away too much about the film, there are two aspects of this movie, which involve the plot, that have always stood out to me the most: one is positive and the other is negative.The positive I noticed is how the movie reminds people that members of the military, whose job it is to kill their enemies with bullets and bombs, can also be humane enough to save people's lives, as well. In other words, not all men/women with guns are bad, just because they are involved in acts of violence. They are meant to be in those situations, because they are on a mission to save people from danger, just like a police officer and a firefighter would do. It also shows that people, who live in poorer countries, like Nigeria, Cameroon, etc., are still human beings, and should be treated as such, instead of "packages," as one of the characters refuses to look at them in that way. Many emotional moments in this film depict what African people go through, when it comes to fascist and tyrannical regimes that oppress their people.Now, when it comes to the negative, I thought it was a little bit of a bad touch to show how there's a war between two huge religious sects, depicting one as being worse than the other. In this case, Fuqua chose to show how the Christian Egbo people (referred to in the movie as the "Egbo Nation") are being victimized and slaughtered in a military coup, backed by a Muslim Fula military General, who has hundreds of thousands of troops at his service. The issue I have with this is that the movie is unfairly portraying Muslims as more violent and extreme, which is a religious stereotype that certain populations throughout the world are convinced is true. In reality, more than a majority of Muslims are peaceful, and aren't in favor of killing people from other religions, as much as the Qu'ran states. The extremists in any religion are going to be violent, regardless of the fact that they're part of any of the Abrahamic religions: Muslim, Jewish or Christian.Even with that little negative aspect of the film, "Tears of the Sun" will always be a favorite of mine, and I'd pretty much watch it whenever I have the chance. I recommend anyone who hasn't to check it out, as well.

More Hollywood macho American nonsense. There's nothing wrong with that - if it's entertaining. But if it irritates then it's just painful. A lot of it was irritating because it was such a dumbed down, make it simple because the audience are stupid and won't ask any questions. Why didn't they just pick her up and leave. ?So many more questions why? are they retarded ? are they stupid? WTF !It's the classic nonsense that America doesn't interfere in foreign wars, and certainly never, ever kills anyone. Soldiers only do whats right. etcBruce Willis is always good to watch as the struggling good guy overcoming his orders and he carries what otherwise would be a C rate nonsensical action movie. As is, its a B rate watch after 5 beers if your feeling gung ho and have fond memories of Die Hard. (which was so much more plausible than this)6/10 watch once, too irritating to watch twice.

I really do not understand why the scenes that didn't make it in to the movie, didn't make it in to the movie. Without the scene where Willis converses with the priest and gives him a gun, the killing of the priest by the rebels is without emotional import. And the scene where the refugees are made to lighten their loads before setting out is remarkable. Similarly, the attempts by the older nurse to convince the younger nurse to stay, and her decision not to, is critical to an understanding of the perils of medical field work. I thought ALL the deleted scenes should have been in the movie. And at what expense? Eliminating a few minutes of back and forth gun shots? Which would have been a blessing to all but the die hard shoot 'em up crowd. Still, Bruce Willis puts in a fine brooding performance, though I wish I could have seen more of Tom Skerritt. And for a movie where dialog is sometimes hard to understand it seemed odd that there were NO subtitles available on the DVD.