Tears of the Sun
	Rated: R
	Runtime: 1hr 58min
	Starring: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Fionnula Flanagan, Tom Skerritt
	MFG Rating: 1/5

The pre-release hype on Tears of the Sun painted it as one of Bruce Willis' best action films ever. Those people must not think very highly of Bruce's other work. Critics may love this thing, but we were bored to tears.

The storyline has a ton of potential. Bruce Willis is in charge of a crack Navy S.E.A.L. team. When an African nation goes through a revolution, his team is ordered in to fetch some U.S. citizens and missionaries. In his way are a bunch of merciless rebels. Unfortunately these darned S.E.A.L.s are a bit too stealthy, and we are treated to an hour plus of self discovery and other dreck before we finally get a little action.

Bruce Willis as the commander of this elite unit and an expert in special ops begins the movie as tough as nails. His only concern is completing his mission at all costs. An hour into the movie he's so pussified that they've practically turned him into a Democrat.

Antoine Fuqua is the director of this film. We loved Training Day, and we like Bruce so we had high hopes. But this film has a lot of problems. It was 2 hours long, it felt like 3 hours, and probably should've been no more than 90 minutes. There are many scenes that just went on and on, so much so that you cant help but think in your head "cut already!". One scene in particular has Willis just staring at the sites surrounding him almost with a tear in his eye. Now that's sappy enough, but it felt like it lasted 5 minutes. We got it after the first 10-15 seconds, again just cut already and move on.

We really did not enjoy ourselves at this movie at all. We'd sooner sit thru a Murphy Brown marathon on the Lifetime network than watch it again. The movie took an intriguing premise and turned it into some preachy story much like Platoon except no where near as cheerful. If you're forced to see this thing, do not take any razor blades with you or you'll be tempted to slash your wrists. What action there is in the movie does not measure up to other recent war films such as We Were Soldiers, but at least the explosions will wake you up so you can go home.

- Billy Bob