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Name : NurAstriani Saputri KM.

Student Number : 2010621010

(Movie Review) Tears Of The Sun


Tears of the Sun is a film released in 2003 with the War/Action genre. Tears of the Sun is also
directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Alex Lasker and Patrick Cirillo. With the actors
playing in this film, Bruce Willis as Lieutenant A.K. Waters, Monica, Bellucci as Dr. Lena
Kendricks, Cole Hauser as James "Red" Atkins, Eamonn Walker as Ellis "Zee" Pettigrew,
Johnny Messner as Kelly Lake, Nick Chinlund as Michael "Slo" Slowenski, Charles Ingram as
Demetrius "Silk" Owens, Paul, Francis as Danny "Doc" Kelley, Chad Smith as Jason "Flea"
Mabry, Peter Mensah as Terwase, Tom Skerritt as Captain Bill Rhodes, Malick Bowens as
Colonel Idris Sadick, Sammi Rotibi as Arthur Azuka, Lloyde Del Mundo as David Norton.

This film tells the story of a fallen Nigerian government and is on the verge of a civil war
between Nigerians. Lieutenant A.K. Waters, assigned to lead his members to save an American
doctor named Dr. Lena Kendricks. Finally Lieutenant Waters had met with Dr. Lena but Dr.
Lena didn't want to come because she didn't want to leave a defenseless patient to be slaughtered
by the rebels and because of that, it caused a split in Lieutenant Waters' team.

In this film, a navy seal unit is dropped into the country's evening zone to carry out its mission,
namely to save Dr. American citizen Lena Kendricks, as well as two nuns and a pastor. When
they wanted to save them the two sisters and a priest did not want to join the navy seal unit, they
wanted to stay with the refugees. On the other hand he had to move quickly if they all wanted to
return to their respective homes because the rebels were already after them all right behind.

Lieutenant A.K. Waters, played by Bruce Willis, is a commander in an elite unit of Navy Seals,
the US who is ordered by his superiors Captain Bill Rhodes (Tom Skerritt) for a humanitarian
mission, namely entering Nigeria and removing foreign nationals from the country to the nearest
country that is relatively safe in Indonesia. border is Cameroon. This is done because in Nigeria
there is an ethnic conflict that leads to civil war. Not only ethnic conflicts, but also have led to
acts of treason against the ruling government, namely President Samuel Azuka. Apparently
President Azuka is not only the president for the Nigerian people, but also the king of the Ibo
tribe who lives in the southern part of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, the rebel forces from Nigeria, led by Mutafa Yakubu, took control

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