Bruce Willis Tears Of The Sun

2003 movie by Antoine Fuqua

Tears of the Lord's day
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Antoine Fuqua
Written past	Alex Lasker Patrick Cirillo
Produced by	Ian Bryce Mike Lobell Arnold Rifkin
Starring	Bruce Willis Monica Bellucci Cole Hauser Tom Skerritt
Cinematography	Mauro Fiore
Edited by	Conrad Buff
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Revolution Studios Cheyenne Enterprises
Distributed past	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date	March seven, 2003 (2003-03-07)
Running time	121 minutes
Country	United states
Language	English language
Budget	$100.5 million^[1]
Box office	$86.5 million^[2] ^[iii]

Tears of the Sun is a 2003 American action thriller pic^[4] depicting a fictitious U.S. Navy SEAL team rescue mission amidst the ceremonious war in Nigeria.^[five] Lieutenant A.One thousand. Waters (Bruce Willis) commands the team sent to rescue U.Due south. citizen Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) before the approaching rebels achieve her jungle hospital. The film was directed past Antoine Fuqua.

Willis produced Tears of the Sun through Cheyenne Enterprises, his production company. The cast of Tears of the Sunday includes actual African refugees living in the United States, incl. Sudanese Lost Boys.^[v]

Plot

Turmoil erupts in Nigeria following a war machine insurrection d'etat led by exiled Full general Mustafa Yakubu in which President Samuel Azuka and his unabridged family unit are reportedly assassinated. The ethnic enmity is between the Fulani Moslems in the n and Christian Ibo in the south. Foreigners evacuate the land and Lieutenant A.Grand. Waters (Bruce Willis) and his U.Due south. Navy SEAL team consisting of Zee (Eamonn Walker), Slo (Nick Chinlund), Red (Cole Hauser), Lake (Johnny Messner), Silk (Charles Ingram), Physician (Paul Francis), and Flea (Republic of chad Smith), board the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman, to be dispatched by Helm Bill Rhodes (Tom Skerritt) to extract Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a U.S. denizen by marriage to the late Dr. John Kendricks who was killed by rebels in Sierra Leone. Their secondary mission is to extract the mission's priest (Pierrino Mascarino) and ii nuns (Fionnula Flanagan and Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy), should they choose to come.

Waters gets to Kendricks, telling her that rebels are closing in on her infirmary and the mission, and that his orders are to extract U.Due south. citizens; yet, Kendricks refuses to exit without her patients that she loves then much. Waters calls Rhodes for options; after a brief conversation, he concedes to Kendricks' wishes and agrees to accept those refugees able to walk. Kendricks begins assembling the able-bodied for the 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) hike; the priest and the nuns stay behind to take care of the injured.

Irritated and backside schedule, the team and the refugees leave the hospital mission later on daybreak. At nightfall they take a short break. The rebels rapidly approach their position, and Waters stealthily kills ane. Kendricks warns Waters that the rebels are going to the mission, simply he is determined to acquit out his orders, and they keep to the extraction point.

Back at the mission, the staff and refugees are detained by the rebels. Despite the priest's pleas for mercy, the rebels murder him and the remaining occupants.

When the team arrives at the extraction point, Waters' initial plan becomes clear: the SEALs all of a sudden turn away the refugees from the waiting SH-60B Seahawk helicopter. Waters forces Kendricks into the helicopter against her will, leaving the refugees stranded in the jungle, defenseless against the rebels. En route dorsum to Harry Truman, they fly over the original mission compound, seeing it destroyed and all its occupants murdered, every bit Kendricks had feared.

Remorseful, Waters orders the pilot to return to the refugees. He then loads equally many refugees equally he tin into the helicopter and decides to escort the remaining refugees to the Cameroonian border on foot.

During the hike to Cameroon, the SEALs find the rebels are somehow tracking them. As they escape and evade the rebels, the squad enters a village whose inhabitants are being raped, tortured, and massacred by the rebels. Cognizant of his ability to cease information technology, Waters orders the team to kill the rebels. The team is visibly shaken by the atrocities they see the rebels accept committed against the villagers.

Again en route, Slo determines that a refugee is transmitting a point assuasive the rebels to locate them. A newer refugee (Jimmy Jean-Louis) picked up during the expedition attempts to run only is shot. A transmitter is discovered on his trunk. As he bleeds out, he confesses that he is coerced to be the rat considering his family unit had been captured past the rebels. The following search for his co-conspirators reveals the presence of Arthur Azuka (Sammi Rotibi), the surviving son of tardily President Samuel Azuka, which they realize is the reason the rebels are hunting them: Samuel Azuka was not only the president of the country, just also the tribal king of the Ibo. Every bit the only surviving member of this royal bloodline, Arthur is the only person left with a legitimate claim to the Ibo Nation. Waters is angered that Kendricks knew this simply did not inform him.

The SEALs decide to continue escorting the refugees to Republic of cameroon, regardless of the cost. A firefight ensues when the rebels finally catch up with them, and the SEALs determine to stay behind as rearguard to buy the refugees enough time to reach the border safely.

Zee radios the Navy for air back up; two F/A-18s take off and head towards them. The rebels kill Slo, Lake, Flea, and Silk. Waters, Cerise, Doc, and Zee are wounded, but straight the jets on where to attack. Arthur and Kendricks rush towards the now-closed Cameroonian border crossing when they hear the jets arroyo and bomb the pursuing rebels.

Waters, Zee, Md, and Red ascent from the grass as Navy helicopters land in Cameroon, opposite the Nigerian border crossing. Rhodes arrives and orders the gate open, letting in the SEALs and the refugees. They are then escorted onto the helicopters.

Rhodes promises Waters that he will recover the bodies of Waters' men. Kendricks bids tearful farewells to her Nigerian friends and flies away in a helicopter while comforting Waters, watching as Arthur is surrounded by his people proclaiming their freedom.

The moving-picture show ends with, "The but thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do cypher" quote attributed to Edmund Shush.

Cast

Bruce Willis as Lieutenant A.K. Waters, Us Navy - Team Commander
Monica Bellucci as Dre Lena Fiore Kendricks - Doctor at the International Humantarian Aid
Tom Skerritt as Captain Beak Rhodes, U.s. Navy - Commanding Officeholder
Cole Hauser as James "Crimson" Atkins, US Navy - Heavy Gunner and Explosives Specialist
Paul Francis as Danny "Md" Kelley, The states Navy - Medic
Eamonn Walker every bit Ellis "Zee" Pettigrew, US Navy - Radioman and Grenadier
Johnny Messner equally Johnny Kelly "JKL" Lake, Us Navy - Recon and Pointman
Nick Chinlund as Michael "Slo" Slowenski, US Navy - SAW Gunner and Reconnaissance GPS Enemy Tech
Charles Ingram as Demetrius "Silk" Owens, Usa Navy - Sniper
Chad Smith as Jason "Flea" Mabry, Usa Navy - Marksman
Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy as Sister Siobhan O'Connor
Fionnula Flanagan every bit Sis Grace McIntyre
Pierrino Mascarino as Father Giovanni Gianni
Peter Mensah as Commander Terwase
Malick Bowens every bit Colonel Idris Sadick
Akosua Busia equally Patience
Sammi Rotibi as Arthur Azuka, son of Nigeria President Samuel Azuka
Benjamin Ochieng as Colonel Emanuel Okeze, bodyguard of Arthur Azuka

Product

Harry Humphries, a sometime U.Southward. Navy SEAL, was the technical adviser to the flick, having advised the earlier Black Hawk Down.^[6] According to the Blu-ray factoid, the aircraft carrier scenes were filmed aboard the active USS Harry South. Truman, lx miles (97 km) eastward of Cape Hatteras in the Atlantic Ocean. The Navy repeatedly turned the carrier so that director Fuqua would have benign lighting conditions.^[5]

Release

The movie was shown in U.S. theaters on March xiii, 2003,^[7] having premiered earlier on March 3.^[8] The 20-minutes longer "Managing director's Extended Cutting" was released on DVD in 2005 and begins with the killing of the Nigerian president, adding political context.^[five] ^[9] The Blu-ray theatrical cutting was released in September 2006,^[10] containing low-definition deleted scenes instead of that extended cutting.^[11]

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the pic holds an approval rating of 33% based on 155 reviews and an average rating of 4.93/ten. The website'due south disquisitional consensus states that the moving picture "tries to exist high-minded, but in the end, it'southward just a stylish action motion-picture show."^[12] On Metacritic, the pic has a weighted average score of 48 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[thirteen]

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the pic an average course of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.^[xiv]

Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of iv and said, "Tears of the Lord's day is a picture constructed out of rain, cinematography and the face up of Bruce Willis. These materials are sufficient to build a pic almost as good equally if there had been a better screenplay."^[15]

Meet also

Listing of films featuring the United States Navy SEALs

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