{"id":767,"date":"2025-03-01T09:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/detoxherb.xyz\/?p=767"},"modified":"2025-03-01T09:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:02:34","slug":"tears-of-the-sun-2003-bruce-willis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/detoxherb.xyz\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Tears of the Sun (2003, Bruce Willis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TEARS OF THE SUN 2003 Trailer #1   Bruce Willis   Monica Bellucci\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmsblSHPZ7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Director Antoine Fuqua\u2019s 2003 serious-minded action thriller finds Bruce Willis on good form as a gung-ho US Navy SEAL lieutenant in Africa. But he finds that \u2018God has already left Africa\u2019 when he leads his unit into Nigeria to rescue gorgeous doctor Monica Bellucci, who is under imminent impending threat from a rebel army. But she won\u2019t leave unless he disobeys his CO (Tom Skerritt) and saves her patients as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2144.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13734\" src=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2144-300x195.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2144-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2144.jpg 440w\" alt=\"2\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While director Fuqua\u2019s gung-ho actioner is being thoughtful and serious, it unfortunately tends to get dour and stodgy. But, as the refugees trek into the jungle towards safety and the battle action kicks in, it\u2019s very capably staged and exciting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13735\" src=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3138-300x195.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3138-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/3138.jpg 444w\" alt=\"3\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without his usual smirking, tongue-in-cheek delivery or toup\u00e9e, Willis looks grim, but that\u2019s the role, and he plays the troubled hero very credibly and convincingly. Politics, war, religion and American intervention overseas are controversial red-hot potatoes in an uncomfortable and flawed but provocative and electric film, whose screenplay was once intended as Die Hard 4.<\/p>\n<p>Fuqua is the director of Training Day, King Arthur and Olympus Has Fallen (2013).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/4135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13736\" src=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/4135-300x194.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/4135-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/4135.jpg 440w\" alt=\"4\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5132.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13737\" src=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5132-300x196.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5132-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/5132.jpg 442w\" alt=\"5\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13738\" src=\"http:\/\/derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6106-300x193.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6106-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.derekwinnert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6106.jpg 439w\" alt=\"6\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Antoine Fuqua\u2019s 2003 serious-minded action thriller finds Bruce Willis on good form as a gung-ho US Navy SEAL lieutenant in Africa. 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