Tears of the Sun
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: March 7, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
17
Negative:
7
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38
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
A preposterous action movie in which a Navy SEAL makes the world safe for democracy one continent at a time. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Unfortunately, the movie's real setting is a sentimental fantasy world, and its story is a spectacularly incoherent exercise in geopolitical wish fulfillment. Read full review
30
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Impossible to swallow as truth, this Rambo treatment is equally hard to enjoy as escapism. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) can stage action, but he can't save a trivializing, reactionary script featuring a Hollywood star (read America) as a global savior. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It’s as deadly dull as the blunt end of a rifle. Read full review
20
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
This "Black Hawk Down" theft is a trial by cliché until the climax, which suggests a dress rehearsal for the torching of Baghdad. Read full review
20
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Relevance can't rescue this would-be epic from the swamps of inertia, absurdity and sentimentality.
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