Simply A Masterpiece

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

So in this film, we got choppers from the carrier, their flying speed were almost the same as the super sonic fighter planes, those choppers reached the rescue area where the fighter planes just bombed minutes ago. So it would only become possible in a movie.When the African people of the clinic were informed that the butchering force was approaching and they must be evacuate right away, they didn't show any panic and when they moved out, they were still singing and chanting, it made me think that they were the happiest people in the chaotic world. And Dr. Lena would never button up her shirt to cover up her cleavage, no way, Jose', part of her breasts were one of the insurances for box office.

In my mind, very few war movies have what it takes to depict the deadliness and sharp minded honed warrior psychology of an elite killing machine. This movie is more than just a war movie, it's a testament to hunters of the shadows, to demons in your sleep, it lends a vision into United States Navy SEALs that wait in the waters edge as you fetch a basket by the river or who keenly train their eyes on your movements in the dark green fizzled hue of night vision optics. It's got that....aurora about it. A mysticism surrounding the modern elite. When these modern elite are sent into the jungles of Africa their mission is simple; ascertain a western doctor in a feel good near Yolingo and bring her back to the extraction point. Things don't turn out as they seem, and so this SEAL team is forced to hike to the nearest extraction with more than what they bargained for. Hot on their tails are an entire rebel army, who vigorously peruse the SEAL team through rain, wind and weather. What follows is perhaps the coolest depiction of jungle combat, clandestine ops and hidden concealment. Tears of the Sun, a classic in its own right.

More Hollywood macho American nonsense. There's nothing wrong with that - if it's entertaining. But if it irritates then it's just painful. A lot of it was irritating because it was such a dumbed down, make it simple because the audience are stupid and won't ask any questions. Why didn't they just pick her up and leave. ?So many more questions why? are they retarded ? are they stupid? WTF !It's the classic nonsense that America doesn't interfere in foreign wars, and certainly never, ever kills anyone. Soldiers only do whats right. etcBruce Willis is always good to watch as the struggling good guy overcoming his orders and he carries what otherwise would be a C rate nonsensical action movie. As is, its a B rate watch after 5 beers if your feeling gung ho and have fond memories of Die Hard. (which was so much more plausible than this)6/10 watch once, too irritating to watch twice.

I really do not understand why the scenes that didn't make it in to the movie, didn't make it in to the movie. Without the scene where Willis converses with the priest and gives him a gun, the killing of the priest by the rebels is without emotional import. And the scene where the refugees are made to lighten their loads before setting out is remarkable. Similarly, the attempts by the older nurse to convince the younger nurse to stay, and her decision not to, is critical to an understanding of the perils of medical field work. I thought ALL the deleted scenes should have been in the movie. And at what expense? Eliminating a few minutes of back and forth gun shots? Which would have been a blessing to all but the die hard shoot 'em up crowd. Still, Bruce Willis puts in a fine brooding performance, though I wish I could have seen more of Tom Skerritt. And for a movie where dialog is sometimes hard to understand it seemed odd that there were NO subtitles available on the DVD.