For me, Tears of the Sun is all about how easy it can be to make a film on the perceived brutalities of another man, easier still to turn it into a crashing bore of a film!

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 4, 2019

The movie's noble aspirations are clear--Bosnia and Rwanda were obviously on the filmmakers' minds--yet it's hopelessly steeped in stale Hollywood action conventions.

| Mar 9, 2018

It has a rare attention to detail and a strong sense of place.

| Feb 1, 2018

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2013

Shamelessly one-sided with cheesy wooden dialogue.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 27, 2007

The movie regales us with the heroics of a (mostly) white American platoon picking off anonymous Black savages.

| Original Score: D | Sep 23, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

A huge screaming bore of a war flick with a big plate of pretentiousness on the side.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 28, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 2, 2005

...an unapologetic paean to the nobility of the American foot solider.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 29, 2005

A tale of courage so facile and off-handedly racist that only Hollywood could have invented it. It confuses slaughter with action, and it's stupid, too.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 6, 2004

... Fuqua relies on old-fashioned, gung-ho heroics and the stern face of Bruce Willis to carry the show.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2004

Tears of the Sun... [tells us]how the chain of command can be ignored if you 'feel' you have a better idea. Let's hope no one takes this seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 4, 2004

Ao contrrio de insultos como Falco Negro em Perigo e Fomos Heris, o protagonista deste filme investe numa causa nobre. E isso faz toda a diferena.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2003

Offers a heroism high on condition that you can ditch disbelief ASAP.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2003

Movies like Tears of the Sun, which are not up to getting immersed in current events, should just stay away from history entirely.

| Sep 14, 2003

There is enough tension and violent action in the movie for it to qualify as a respectable, if worthy, militarist adventure, with Willis and his grizzled band wearing their gear and operating their weapons with ruthless and authentic efficiency.

| Sep 13, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2003