The main character makes a lot of really bad choices. Thats why he gets a lot of people killed, and in fact being af hero at the same time. It is a very bad movie.

Movie Review: "Tears Of The Sun" (2003)This technically-flawless war-action-movie directed Antoine Fuqua, who chose his follow-up picture to "Training Day" (2001) in order to work with Hollywood Star Bruce Willis, portraying Lieutenant A.K. Waters as leader of a team of Navy Seals special forces with facial-striking concerns, who needs to enter hostile rebel territory in central Nigeria, when a fictitiously post-civil-war, in the 1960s, collapsing democratic government gets over-run by an ultra-violent rebel army, who kills every rural villages in their path to control further regions of natural resources for an international black market, when the Seals team gets the assignment to retrieve a solely operating female Doctor with no further background story, performed by put-into-emotional-restraints actress Monica Bellucci, in the deepest green jungle scenarios of highly-visceral machine-gun combat action captured in excellent-executed visuals by cinematographer Mauro Fiore, who can not save the picture produced by high-scale war-action-pushing Producer Ian Bryce from falling short by being pretentious in its simple conception of just bringing a western-educated academic woman into safety from a constant-raging guerilla war tactics, when denied visualization of aftermath village massacres in population-starving agony gets exchanged for continuous suspense-loss, out-going from a thin originally-conceived screenplay by writers Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo, who hardly found an emotional peak to make "Tears Of The Sun" stand out from a crowd of modern warfare motion pictures.Nevertheless boot-camp-prepared supporting cast members including Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker and Tom Skerritt as combat-jet-carrier stationed Captain Bill Rhodes put authentic U.S. military atmosphere in the high-profile Columbia Pictures presented movie, when talented director Antoine Fuqua avoids to break free from the shooting draft to improvise a desperately needed bonding scene between extreme-situations-enduring main characters of Lieutenant Waters and Doctor Kendricks; the showdown stays visually compelling in a sky-rocketing bullet-storms and a massive napalm explosion, mimicking obviously a superior "Apocalypse Now" (1979) opening shot, when this war-action-movie fades again in forfeited consequence of an important opportunity to put out an "Anti-War-Campaigning" post-curtains-enduring message into "Tears Of The Sun" with respects to a still-war-struggled continent of Africa.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I've always had a penchant for films set in the jungle, and TEARS OF THE SUN makes excellent use of some sweaty jungle locales in its story of US soldiers battling Nigerian rebels. It's a story of human drama masquerading as a war movie, and action lovers will be disappointed as all of the gun battles are saved for the (admittedly spectacular) last half hour. Before then we get a film based on real-life events that runs the gamut of emotions, from courage to anger, fear to bravery and everything in between.It's nothing new, but benefits from some superb acting from the assembled cast members: Bruce Willis, as silent and stern as ever, acts with just his eyes for the most part and gets the viewer totally on-side; Monica Bellucci is utterly beautiful and tough as the doctor working against the odds, and the rest of the American soldiers are also brilliant – including Cole Hauser as a tough cookie and Tom Skerritt as a grizzled veteran. Well-shot, well directed, and with plenty of story and emotion to keep it going, at first glance this might be typical gung-ho adventure stuff but it's much more. It's got heart and conscience and it never disappoints despite the lengthy running time. A solid thriller.

First of all this movie has given me a brutal reality of people living in the revolted nation . Honestly i have never seen such intense action film from a long time .Acting of an Akosua Busia is so real ."The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke . This will be the line we will remember at the end of this movie .Its an intense movie with lots of ethnic cleaning incidents Director Antoine Fuqua has made this things look like real . So for children's its not advisable .Acting of Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci were superb . Frankly i watched this movie behalf of Monica Bellucci :) . However this movie is not that kind , its a war movie with intense story .I am surprised by the rating of 6.6 to this movie . It should be greater than 7 . Probably all of the critics see the things which i have not .