EveningStar
03-08-2003, 11:38 AM
Craig Outhier, The Orange County Register
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To kick butt, or not to kick butt? That is the burning philosophical question faced by Bruce Willis and company in "Tears of the Sun," a ripping, shrewdly manipulative tale of American military heroism in the African jungle.
Directed by Antoine Fuqua - whose pounding, visceral style helped Denzel Washington land an Oscar for the dirty-cop thriller "Training Day" (2001) - "Tears of the Sun" takes place in the midst of a bloody military coup that has toppled Nigeria's once-promising democracy.
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Full review (http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=28627)
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Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
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"Tears of the Sun" is a film constructed out of rain, cinematography and the face of bruce willis. These materials are sufficient to build a film almost as good as if there had been a better screenplay. In a case like this, the editor often deserves the credit, for concealing what is not there with the power of what remains.
The movie tells the story of a Navy Seals unit that is dropped into a Nigerian civil war zone to airlift four U.S. nationals to safety. They all work at the same mission hospital. The priest and two nuns refuse to leave. The doctor, widow of an American, is also hostile at first ("Get those guns out of my operating room!"), but then she agrees to be saved if she can also bring her patients. She cannot. There is no room on the helicopters for them and finally Lieut. Waters (Bruce Willis) wrestles her aboard.
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To kick butt, or not to kick butt? That is the burning philosophical question faced by Bruce Willis and company in "Tears of the Sun," a ripping, shrewdly manipulative tale of American military heroism in the African jungle.
Directed by Antoine Fuqua - whose pounding, visceral style helped Denzel Washington land an Oscar for the dirty-cop thriller "Training Day" (2001) - "Tears of the Sun" takes place in the midst of a bloody military coup that has toppled Nigeria's once-promising democracy.
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Full review (http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=28627)
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Roger Ebert, The Chicago Sun-Times
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"Tears of the Sun" is a film constructed out of rain, cinematography and the face of bruce willis. These materials are sufficient to build a film almost as good as if there had been a better screenplay. In a case like this, the editor often deserves the credit, for concealing what is not there with the power of what remains.
The movie tells the story of a Navy Seals unit that is dropped into a Nigerian civil war zone to airlift four U.S. nationals to safety. They all work at the same mission hospital. The priest and two nuns refuse to leave. The doctor, widow of an American, is also hostile at first ("Get those guns out of my operating room!"), but then she agrees to be saved if she can also bring her patients. She cannot. There is no room on the helicopters for them and finally Lieut. Waters (Bruce Willis) wrestles her aboard.
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Full review (http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-tears07f.html)
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