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Tears of the Sun (2003)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   C+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...essentially a string of clichés, but they are tried and true." more... C   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "...the editor often deserves the credit, for concealing what is not there with the power of what remains." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "...expertly done in a way, but not especially engaging or new..." more... B- Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "His performance is a pleasant reminder that when he puts his mind to it, Willis is a heckuva fine actor." more... B   E! Online "Despite a few moments of heavy-handed sentimentality, overall Tears of the Sun shines." more... B   filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "...one of the better military missions of the last 10 years." more... B   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Much of the action is arbitrary and predictable." more... C   Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "...tries to be action flick and message movie, a combination that proves elusive." more... D+ New York Post Lou Lumenick "...a sluggish, confused flick..." more... C   New York Times A.O. Scott "...its story is a spectacularly incoherent exercise in geopolitical wish fulfillment." more... D+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "Tears of the Sun is not a great movie, but it is satisfying, and represents an example of accomplished filmmaking." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...a trivializing, reactionary script..." more... D   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "What pushes it above mediocrity is that it ends better than it begins." more... C+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker "For a film so intent on the rules of engagement, this is hardly engaging drama." more... C- USA Today Claudia Puig "...it's not one-tenth as interesting as what you can see at home during a nightly cable surf as U.S. war policy is debated." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)