Antoine (Training Day) Fuqua’s Tears Of The Sun has often been cited as a one-note action flick riding on the back of the terrible true-life atrocities
still being committed across various strife-torn African nations. Detractors point to the Rambo-type saviours of Bruce Willis’ Lt. Waters and his Seal team going in like the American World Police and saving the day … again. But that is actually a gross misinterpretation of the themes the film tries to explore. Admittedly, Tears is a terrific combat movie and the bad guys are mown down left, right and centre whilst the moral ...
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