fatvegan

Tears of the Sun was an "ethical" action movie about how sometimes killing a lot of people is the only principled choice you can make. Fortunately, the world only has good people and bad people so it's mostly pretty easy to work out which ones need killing and which ones need saving. It was also about being an American, and looks at the constructive steps America might take in reducing violence in Africa.

I have to say, I'm a little surprised at Monica Belucci who I nearly always love. Not only was her character incredibly annoying, but if it's possible for a French actor to betray their French roots then she definitely did. Apart from the similarity to the hundreds of years of French occupation of Africa, this film was as American and as not French as they come.

But it was entertaining violence. There were a lot of explosions and a lot of shooting, and I like that stuff. Quite a few stabbings as well. The baddies really were very bad, and certainly deserved any gratuitous knife guttings they may have received.