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Summary: Fuqua is a director to watch
Review: Now I am really looking forward to seeing "King Arthur" after watching this film; which Fuqua is directing for Jerry Bruckheimer. This is one of the best war films I have seen in quite sometime. Much better than Black Hawk Down. You care about the characters in this film. Willis gives one of his best performances as does the rest of the impressive cast. The cinematography and score are thrilling and engaging. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) has now proved himself to be one of the best young director's working in film today.
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Summary: worst movie i can imagine
Review: seeing that it is rated above 3 star in amazon, i watched the movie. i endured the 2 hours torture to finish watching it. this movie is just terrible from every aspects, like plot, action. i can't understand why so many people like this movie. maybe the only reason is they are patriotic--they just like to watch US soldiers killing other soldiers in a magic way.
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Summary: Tears for a few good men
Review: Eight Navy Seals get a rough assignment: Pull an American doctor out of war-torn Nigeria. The mission becomes much more complicated and difficult when the doctor refuses to leave her charges. Willis, as the lieutenant commanding the squad, has to make life-and-death choices and the allow his humanity to surface or, as he says, he learns to "give a f*ck". Willis uses his "Die Hard" style, with little opportunity for humor. There really isn't any room here for humor. It is dark, tense and scary. And there is also the triumphant, mostly rewarding and credible climax.There is more development and tension than violence and action for much of the film. The minutes of violence are heart wrenching and not overly gratuitous. Explicit, graphic violence comes with a message, even if you choose to dismiss it. For a moment, I though there might be a neat, simple and clean ending possible, but the director (who first made "Training Day") was too honest. There is also a small political twist that adds some heart and sense of revival to the devastation trailing the small group trying to make their way from the medical mission to safety in Cameroon. To be political and personal for a moment, I was moved. A few good men can make a difference, and not the way Rob Reiner portrayed them. Sure, this is Hollywood and creative license is what often makes art and entertainment. But Michael Moore was much less honest with "Bowling for Columbine," and he won an Academy Award for his "documentary". "Tears of the Sun" is a more honest view of, as the director says, "man's inhumanity to man."As Willis says in the accompanying feature, when it comes to internecine warfare in Africa, "It all depends upon who has the guns." And he's not talking about the NRA.
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Summary: A Great Rescue Movie
Review: This movie is about a group of Navy SEALs who are sent to Africa to rescue an American. But this mission doesn't come easy when there are rebels out to stop them and kill anyone in their path. This is a great film with lots of action, and shooting.
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Summary: No
Review: First of all, keep in mind this movie is supposed to take place in Nigeria, a country which has given us the "Nigerian Scam."
Caring what happens to the government of this larcenous nation is difficult to do.
The bad guys chase the good guys, because, unbeknownst to the SEALS, one of the refugees is the son of the murdered Nigerian president. He's been hiding behind a screen of innocent people rather than running for the border. Then for some mysterious plot device he's also revealed to be the "heritary chief of the Ibo tribe." The refugees start acting reverent but he's done nothing to earn such respect.
The bad guys close in because a refugee traitor has a transmitter. He's killed and his booby-trapped body AND THE TRANSMITTER are left behind. No good guy takes it to lead the bad guys in the wrong direction.
The fearful refugees, with no training that made it to the screen, pick up weapons and begin shooting at the bad guys. In some scenes the SEALS are BETWEEN the bad guys and the refugees. Thugs with guns on one side, civilians with guns on the other side, SEALS in the middle.
The lady doctor character serves no other function than to fuss at Bruce Willis for the hard way he's pushing them toward safety.
However, Bruce Willis does manage a bang-on impersonation of Steven Seagal. He's grumpy, taciturn and has the Steven Seagal grimace. He looks like a man who didn't read the script until after he signed the contract.
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Summary: Don't be fooled by the commercials!!
Review: When I first saw the movie trailer, I quickly went ans watched it in theaters. But I came out very disappointed. The action you see in the commercials is ALL the action. Period. This is more of a National Geographic documentary than an action movie... it doesn't even deserve to be called "action." I would give this zero stars if I could!!
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Summary: Tears for this bad attempt
Review: Nice start, a lot of typical over-dramatization and dragged out scenes, and a silly and predictable ending. The technical accuracy was lacking, with such things as handheld radios reaching miles inland and the whole idea of disobeying orders and putting the entire team at risk. Surely there had to be a better way of protecting those people. American ambassadors overseas aren't too keen on American military units formulating their own on-the-spot foreign policy. I would save your money for something a little less flashy and more accurate.
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Summary: A Movie for Guys!
Review: WHen I first saw the movie trailers I thought another blood and guts movie with no plot or character development. Therefore, I had low expectations of the movie. However, I was impressed enough with the plot and underlying moral dilemnas that Bruce WIllis's character faced while completing his mission. It still had the requisite shoot outs and last stand vs the thousands of well-dressed Nigerian rebels (those are proably the best dressed and armed rebels I have ever seen in a movie!). Naturally, Bruce and his small team survive, bloodied and worse for wear. Amazing how 8 Navy Seals could withstand a small army of rebels. Its perfect for a cold wintery or rainy weekend with a six pack and a couple of submarine heros with your buddies in an afternoon of male bonding when there the football season is over and baseball hasn't started yet or westling isn't until later. Best enjoyed with the wife/SO and or kids are out shopping or visiting the in-laws.
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Summary: Films - ahem Movies - I want to watch when i grow up Take 1
Review: 5 reasons i love this movie 1- Great location
shot in Hawaii but incredibly representative of the Nigerian jungle aka ©African jungle/Heart of Darkness (copyright - Hollywood marketing material/Joey Boy Conrad) - did you see that yawning Mandrill . Reminds me of safaris i took when i was younger - well actually, that was the Kenyan jungle and the South African jungle. But seen one ©African Jungle, you've seen them all - did i mention the yawning Mandrill. 2 - Factual accuracy
Could someone in Hollywood let Nigerian President Obasanjo know
a) that the Nigerian Civil war did not end in 1970 but unbeknownst to him is still raging on
b) that he is no longer Yoruba but Ibo (heck one African tribe is as good as the other, least Hollywood research turned up a Nigerian ethnic group, he could have been made Masai you ingrates)
c) to rename his country (sounds too much like Liberia) - must be easier to do that than to research one of the numerous real life conflicts in African countries that might provide equally worthwhile drama, stuff blowing up and the added benefit of not trivialising tragedy as fairy tale.
d) that Nigerians are the new Kenyans - heck they ran all night tracking Brucie's men didn't they. There is even a quote in the movie to support this, anyhow they all track kudu all night anyway - what noble lungs they all have. Also, all occurences of american characters in movies emphasising their native-loving credentials by passing off gobbledegook as "native" language were kept to a minimum. And NONE were passed off with meaningless subtitles 3) Dramatic complexity & Character depth
the moral dilemma associated with the conflict portrayed was stunning. Kinda reminded me of Platoon actually and the whole moral dilemma thing of Vietnam but you know in a movie-about-a-tribal-conflict kinda way. The range of emotion displayed by Noble African Native Woman Screaming A Lot on Her Way To Meet Her Baby (that's her real name - kinda like the injuns - but her friends call her NANWSALOHWTMHB) was quite remarkable. There was one scene where the utterly hopeless look on her face conveyed the tragedy of a nation looking down on the symbolic hacked off - can-no-longer-nuture - dreams of future generations - looking down on Noble African Native Women With Breasts Hacked Off After Being Raped (formerly known as Noble African Native Women With Breasts Flapping On Pages of the Nat. Geographic) (thats her real ... u know the drill). 4) Opportunities for new actors
Nothing like a film about AFRICA!! ("faint Tribal Drums in the background, fade to black") to provide loads of roles and greatly needed opportunities to play black, for blacks in the movie industry (ethnic ones for that matter). Credits included Jonas Olumo who played Jonas (don't know who that was? shame on you for not paying attention) and Man With Goat who played Man With Goat. 5) Social Reengineering -
for those who were immediately resigned to the curious appeal Hollywood has of making sure romantic interests are paired off neatly along America's racial lines (i.e. meaningful scene laden with potential romance b/w Eamonn Walker aka Da Black Seal and NANWSALOHWTMHB), this film pushed the envelope with the scene where the non-Eamonn Walker Seal died saving Noble African Native Woman Straggler Gagging To Be Killed and expired lovingly on her backside. Can't wait for Tears of the Sun II
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Summary: One of the best war movies ever
Review: This movie was amazing. When I bought my ticket for this movie I was expecting an all out war movie. Ya know like the ones where everything just blows up and everyone dies? Even though it was not what I was expecting, I came out of the theater with great satisfaction. This movie was emotional and near the end when people die, you care. This movie gets you involved and trust me you will not want it to end. Even though I am the type of person that likes the movies where everyone dies and everything blows up, I would have to say that although this movie isn't full of all that, it is definitely one of my favorites
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