THE WEBLOG OF KEVIN C. MURPHY: CONJURING POLITICAL, CINEMATIC, AND CULTURAL ARCANA SINCE 1999

No More Tears.

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Caught Tears of the Sun over the weekend and was underwhelmed -- Trying to be a cross between Black Hawk Down and Rambo, It basically ends up as Three Kings without the irony. In fact, hamhanded pro-interventionist polemic aside, Tears even fails as an action film, since the first hour and a half moves at a snail's pace. There might have been a good movie in here somewhere despite all the over-the-top heroism and war movie cliches (if you can't figure out who is and who isn't going to die for their country early on, you haven't seen enough men-on-a-mission flicks), but Antoine Fuqua didn't find it. Bruce Willis and Monica Bellucci do what they can, and the cinematography is occasionally striking, but sadly this film just falls on its face.

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