Reviews

This movie gets better with age. If you've got a sense of humor and don't need Industrial Light and Magic special effects, the combination of actors (all playing off the winsome Brigette Nielson) makes this a fun movie to see again...or for the first time.

It's probably also the movie that got Arnold in hot water during the "recall."

This movie gets better with age. If you've got a sense of humor and don't need Industrial Light and Magic special effects, the combination of actors (all playing off the winsome Brigette Nielson) makes this a fun movie to see again...or for the first time.

If you don't like Bruce Willis, don't watch this DVD/video. If you want an original movie theme, don't look for for it in Tears of the Sun. If Hillary Klinton floats your boat, by all means STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE (where it takes much less than a village to destroy everything decent people tried to accomplish, including the decent people themselves [slicing off the breasts of women from another tribe so they can't suckle their infants]), as well as anything else with Bruce Willis in it. This also applies to Bill Klinton groupies...I can't imagine any two people more on the wrong side of a Bruce Willis movie than the Klintons. [i.e. Klinton, as in the dumfuks ho spelled our country "Amerika" in the '70s and '80s (and today?) to promote the specious slander that the USA was a surrogate for the WWII Nazis -- Brazil lite.]

Bruce plays a laconic SEAL lieutenant (more true to life than the chatty heros in so many other war flicks) who faces a moral crisis on assignment in Nigeria. He doesn't cry. He doesn't do a Hamlet soliloquy. He even grudgingly understands the motivations of the noble but selfish Dr/babe. He just does the best he can, at his own expense.

I got the DVD about a month ago, and finally had a chance to watch it tonight. It will be worth watching many more times (sort of knew that before I bought it).

A Bruce Willis/Rooting for the Good Guys fan,

jack flynn

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James Woods is great in the role of Mel, a junkie/alcoholic conman/thief who begins as a mentor but unconsciously becomes a surrogate father to Bobbie, a young junky. Melanie Griffith is stellar as Mel's junkie/codependent partner, who easily takes on the role of sister and surrogate mother for Rosie, Bobbie's codependent partner.

True to form for junkies and alcoholics, Woods and Griffith become the cruel and thoughtless people that drove their teenage partners to the streets in the first place. Bobbie and Rosie were the most uneven elements in the movie for me. I started to think that Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) was playing Holden Caulfield instead of a teenage junkie, and Rosie (Natasha Wagner) was usually just too perky to be believable -- but she is very easy to take in the role, and her dramatic performance near the end of the movie is well done.

Much violence -- verbal as well as physical -- keep the tension high, and twists like a gay crew keep some of the more traditional elements of the genre fresh.

I actually learned about the movie because I bought the Soundtrack (for "Boogaloo Down Broadway" by the Fanastic Johnny C). The soundtrack is great, and I'm glad it steered me to the film.