Remember the 2003 action movie Tears of the Sun, directed by Anthony Fuquia and starring Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci? The film is made up of three elements – the AK rifle, the water, and the old cloth.
Tears of the Sun tells the story of an American Navy SEAL team ordered to Nigeria to rescue four American citizens trapped on the battlefield. However, the priests and nuns among them refused to leave the refugees in need and insisted on staying on the battlefield.
Another doctor, played by Monica Bellucci, demanded that the Navy SEALs must take her patients with them before she was willing to leave. However, because there was not enough space on the helicopter to fulfill such a request, "Waters", played by Bruce Willis, had to take her away.
Although the doctor hated "Waters" for not keeping his word, there was no other way, and as they sat on the helicopter, they saw many villages being set on fire by the rebels, and Waters, based on guilt, could not look at the female doctor in the face, so he ordered the helicopter to turn around and turn back. In the end, they took away about 20 patients who could still walk and promised to come back to rescue more.
Waters' decision violated the demands of the upper echelons, and his superiors were reluctant to risk losing the helicopter, so they had to walk through the jungle for support.
As the story progresses, the rescue puts Waters and his friends in danger, and when his men ask him why he suddenly turned back, Waters replies:
"I'll tell you when I've thought about it."
After some time, Waters finally gave the answer, saying:
"It's been a long time since the last time I did good— to do the right thing."
Bruce Willis's character, like Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now, is a dark and violent character who participates in a mission to rescue people from hell, but in the process accidentally travels to another hell.
The story of Tears of the Sun is actually quite simple: Bruce Willis and her companions must lead the doctor and her patients safely through the treacherous jungle while avoiding the resistance. The key to success must be "speed" and "hiding".
So, in this action, when the female doctor constantly asked Waters, "My patient must rest!" Times, it's particularly tiresome. Assuming that some of the patients were local residents, they must have had experience walking in the jungle, and the doctor knew that they were being chased, so she should have known exactly what not to do.
As the story progresses to the climax of the plot, the brainless clichéd action scenes, "Tears of the Sun" is basically like an impressionist nightmare.
Anthony Fuquia, along with his photographers Moro Fiora and Keith Solomon, created a visual world dominated by black and green tones, with ultra-high humidity and plenty of night scenes, with the camera almost focused on Bruce Willis.
In addition, the characters don't have many lines, such as Bruce Willis, who only speaks about 100 words in the first hour of the movie. The focus of everything was on the conflict between the professional training of the soldiers and their personal feelings. As for the "chemical reaction" between the protagonist and the female doctor, it only exists in the suggestive lines.
From start to finish, the film seems to want to slowly stack something, but in the end, it is intended to simplify it all by stuffing it with a bunch of traditional action scenes.
The final half hour of Tears of the Sun is filled with routine gun battles, blasts, and machine-gun fire. If the focus of a movie is on gun battles, then Mel Gibson's "We Were Warriors" has successfully achieved its goal, but in "Tears of the Sun", the gunfight is neither the main plot axis nor particularly well presented, so why emphasize such a bridge section so much?
Perhaps the early script of "Tears of the Sun" should have been biased towards a deeper, more sad theme, emphasizing the helplessness of africa when the "civil war" had become a genocide. But the final work presented is like a dragonfly dotting the water, only to the point.
Although the themes are not strong enough, Bruce Willis's sparse lines, the wisdom of the female doctors, the camaraderie of the SEALs (willing to follow them even when the captain chooses to disobey), and the minimalist style presented by editor Conrad Baff, at least make "Tears of the Sun" a movie worth watching.