Tears of the Sun [DVD]

Good quality dvd, thank you

Bruce Willis is one of those actors that has had a long career, and has scored many hits and many misses, both finacially at the box office, and artistically.Tears of the Sun, is a very good film. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training day, Shooter), this is powerful, stylishly filmed and well acted action drama. Director Fuqua seems to make action movies with a little more heart and soul, and intelligence than your average shoot 'em up (apart from Replacement Killers, which was just a gun porn John Woo produced bullett fest).Here it is about the drama as Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Willis) leads his Navy seals into a rescue Mission Dr. Kendricks (The ever reliable Monica Bellucci), a U.S citizen, from war torn Africa, as the goverment fails and the rebel army start to tear the country apart.Bellucci is great as the very caring Dr, never seeming unrealistic in her compassion who instantly clashes with Willis, also on fine form playing one of those world weary, gruff cynics, that he's so famous for, though clearly this time with the story being what it is humour is not involved, this is a straight Willis performance (no Diehard oneliners).What ensuses is a cat and mouse element as Willis and his team have a moral crisis, and decide to disabay orders, and escort the refugees who the good Dr is tending to out of the path of the rebels.Whilst this cannot perhaps follow the punch of say Black Hawk down (as that was strongly based on real events), it does follow a familiar story arc, in that the heroes are thrown into a mission that spirals out of their control at quite a fast pace, and leaves them running for there lives.Minor gripes would be some gaps in plot logic, some of the secondary Seal team members characters are not developed enough, and in the end gun shoot out it gets a little confusing as to who's doing what, finally the film almost, and I say almost falls into a Hollywood flag raising finale of cliche in the last few moments, but does pull it back with a heartwarming but subdued end scene, and a beautiful life affirming quote before the end credits that sums up the mood and message of the film.Good action, great acting from the two primary leads, very realistic shoot outs, some deliberately shocking scenes of violence, added to a fantastic Music score and lush photography of the scenery, makes for a really underrated gem of a(anti?)war movie.

Superb war film, Bruce Willis at his best and the rest of the cast are greatThe surround sound on this disc is Demo worthy when the action starts

good action film

This film is good but unfortunately Three areas have been cut that are on the DVD.These areas although not action sequences and are relatively short they do make a difference.Missing:-The Presidential Family, Call for Assistance and the Speech by the presidents son.These missing items help you to understand the story better.

I have always loved this film, which has new resonance against the current (2014) tribal warfare going on in the Central African Republic.. It's sort of about the Biafra war, yet not, since the time frame is wrong; but there is a civil war in Nigeria, in which the dastardly Fulani have staged a coup, killing the Igbo president and all his family, and slaughtering Christian Igbos everywhere. Bruce and his team of Navy Seals are sent in, as part of an internation rescue effort, to get westeners out. Specifically, they have to rescue a (female) doctor, who refuses to go unless she can take the people from her mission with her. Naturally, this is a non-runner: but Bruce has a change of heart, and they all set off, on foot, for the Cameroon border. The Seals, at first a bit quizzical about all this, eventually come to see their charges as people, and buy into the deal.They hit various problems on the way, including some particularly nasty ethnic cleansing, and are vigorously pursued by the bad guys (there is a reason for this, but I won't spoil the suspense). Obviously, Bruce gets through - he is Bruce, after all - but not everybody does, and the action bits are jolly good.An excellent action film which, at the margins, usefully exposes the nastiness of civil war.A rattling good yarn, IMHO, which, in the margins, explores the evils of

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Vacuum isn’t powerful what so ever with the extension part attached, when you use the other bits given it’s strong enough! Other than this it’s a good hoover but not for someone who has dogs or children who need to hoover their floors every single day