Tears of the Sun

When the two fighter-bombers take off from the aircraft carrier in the final battle, they only have drop tanks, no missiles or other visible armaments.

As they fly over to the battle, they now have six missiles each.

Waters' beard varies in length inconsistently throughout the film.

The time shown on Rhodes' watch changes inconsistently between shots when he is talking to Waters.

After the explosion injures some of the refugees, Dr.

Kendricks is holding the side of her head in close-ups but is not in the wider shots.

When the SEAL team sets out to HALO jump into Nigeria, the aircraft they jump out of is different than the plane they got into.

Many of the refugees depicted are Sudanese from the other side of Africa.

Ibo tribesmen are Bantu, Sudanese are Nilotics from the East.

When the refugees are hiding in the jungle as the rebels pass, the sound of the baby crying can be heard but the baby doesn't have its mouth open.

When Dr.

Kendricks is injured and lying on the ground she brings her hand to her head in a close up as she speaks to Waters, but long and medium shots show her with her arm down.

When the SEALs jump from the aircraft it is shown in different shots as two different aircraft types.

A side shot shows a type with fins on the extremities of the horizontal stabilizer, but the shot looking up after they jump shows a conventional tail with a single central vertical stabilizer.

While marriage to an American citizen has certain benefits and may ease the path to citizenship, a person cannot become an American citizen "by marriage".

In one scene, the Captain of the USS HST is talking on a Radio to the SEALS while on the flight deck near the Landing Zone.

As he's talking a E-2 Hawkeye is landing behind him.

Although he is allowed in that area, he is not wearing a Cranial Helmet which is required during all Flight operations on any Aircraft Carrier.

Even as the Skipper, he is not above the safety rules set in place during flight operations.

In the end when the people are singing to Arthur Azuka, their mouths don't move, they don't match the lyrics.

The planes providing air support are seen carrying two infrared air-to-air missiles (AIM-9M Sidewinders) and four radar-guided air-to-air missiles (AIM-120 AMRAAM) each, neither of which can be used against ground targets.

Even if they could, the effect would not be significant against an enemy concentration of such size.

The explosions in the movie look more like an incendiary weapon of some kind though, which is not what they were carrying.

When the Captain is standing on the carrier deck talking on the satellite phone, an F-18 Hornet traps (lands) on the deck behind him.

13 Seconds later, a second F-18 traps on the deck.

It is not possible to reset the cable and clear the deck in 13 seconds, and would be considered unsafe to do so.

When the F-18 is launched at the end of the movie it has no weapons loaded on its pylons.

When they are in the air they are shown to have a full weapons load.

During the scene where Dr Kendricks was talking over the CB radio with a US embassy personnel for help, right after her first sentence, we hear the man on the other end reply.

Yet, she never appeared to release the "talk" button, meaning she is still in "transmit" mode and won't be able to "receive" incoming broadcasts unless she release the "talk" button first.

In the credits, thanks is given to VFA-203, when actually the planes seen on the deck in the beginning if the movie belong to VFA-204.

The means of communications between Rhodes and Waters is not possible.

Rhodes is using a satellite mobile phone whilst Water' unit is using a tactical radio with a satellite capability.

It would also be inconceivable for a Navy Seal Captain to have to speak to his troops on a mission from the noisy flight deck of an enormous aircraft carrier with dedicated communication links set aside for those assets in the field.

During the first few minutes of the final battle, the lieutenant puts a new magazine into his gun and proceeds with the cliché "magazine smack" to make sure its in the gun all the way.

While attempting this, the lieutenant misses the magazine entirely.

When they were leaving the village they said it was 12 clicks to the pick up point.

Later they said they have gone 5 clicks and have 7 more miles to go.

1 click (kilometer) equals 0.

62 miles.

During the scene where the group is traveling up the stream in the rain, the SEAL that carries the shotgun is seen with his M4 slung with the muzzle pointed up.

Anyone with any weapons training would know to sling a weapon with the muzzle pointed towards the ground while it is raining.

During the briefing, Dr.

Kendricks deceased husband is said to be John Kendricks.

However, the accompanying slide clearly shows her husband to have been called Benjamin.

When Waters goes into the operating room to get Dr.

Kendricks, the amount of blood splatter on the surgical masks changes.

While Waters is talking to the doctor outside the hospital, the amount of sweat on his face keeps changing.

Sometimes his face is dry, so he could have wiped it, but then the sweat comes back as it was before.

After being in the rain and mud for quite some time, parts of the uniforms are still very clean.

During the final firefight, the last RPG round fired is seen to veer off to the left and strike a soldier square in the chest.

The RPG is not equipped with homing capabilities.

At the beginning of the movie, when the SEAL team first arrives from another (unstated) mission, Tom Skeritt's character, a Navy captain (O-6), tells Bruce Willis' character to go see the "medic.

" A Navy man would always say "corpsman", not medic.

In the scenes following the discovery of the smoke bomb by the rebels, the first scene shows a line of men moving across the field, all of them holding their weapons in a left-handed position.

The next scene, a closer one from behind the men, shows them all holding their weapons in a right-handed position.

It is likely that the film of first scene was flipped so that both scenes show the men moving in the same direction - to the left of screen.

In the final battle when the SEALs are retreating to the Cameroon border, Navy SEALs would never get that separated from each other in that situation to the point where they would have to ask who is where and what their status was.

Getting that far apart compromises all small unit tactics that SEALs are taught and the team would loose total combat effectiveness.

Though they would still use air support, Navy SEALs would never make themselves that vulnerable.

After the prince exposes himself and Waters is confronting Lena about not informing him, the camera angle focuses on Lena while Waters is speaking.

The timing of his voice and the movement of his jaw is off.

When the tortured woman from the "ethnic cleansing" scene dies and Lena is pulling her eyelids down, the woman's neck is slightly twitching, consistent with a heartbeat or minor muscle movements.

A light-reflecting "bounce board" and crew member holding it is visible in Rhodes' sunglasses as he talks on the satellite phone to waters while standing on the flight deck.

During the first helicopter extraction, there is a clear, flattened path through the grass straight to the helicopter, despite the fact that only Waters, Kendricks, and one other SEAL had walked through.

This indicates the actors' movements to the helicopter through multiple scene takes.

During one of the last battles, one of the SEALS mistakenly yells "Grenade!" when throwing an outgoing grenade.

In reality, a soldier will yell "Frag out!" when referring to an outgoing grenade, while the term "Grenade!" is used to warn comrades of an incoming grenade.

Critics said the movie "tries to be high-minded" but the reality of what happens in Nigeria even today disputes the critics. Reality is that most audiences enjoy the movie.

OK, before I continue with the actual review, I want to make one thing clear - I believe Antoine Fuqua is among the best action profiled film directors ever. The man is a real master of the genre, being able to do a Die Hard type of an action film just as easily as he is able to adopt John Woo's style when he needs to.

This is one of my favorite military movies. It gives the viewer a look into the problems in Africa most of us know little or nothing about.

Why its 6 is atrocious, it shows the lack of humanity in a region of the world that the world and either ignored or has help these atrocities by abusing the simplest of living life. This shows ignorance in it's true meaning.

A civil war has broken out in Nigeria, and as international forces determine what is going to be done about it, American citizens are evacuated. First from the embassy, and now others are to be transported out safely...

I heard about this movie from a friend then I saw it was from 2003, in my mind the tech then wasn't that smooth but there was that Rambo feeling during that time and that is exactly what I got. Simply impressive...

Ok easy watching action from yippee kayaaayyyyy.I thought this was gong to be brutal from reading other reviews.

Antoine Fuqua's Tears Of The Sun is a brutal, tough war machine of a flick in the tradition of the old 70's war films, kind of like a brooding Dirty Dozen. Bruce Willis stoically heads up a team of special ops soldiers who are sent into a war torn region of Africa to rescue a doctor (Monica Belucci) from a missionary camp.

Not a fan of soldier movies (most are alike). Its typical, nothing great about the cinematography or story.