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Tears of the Sun
2003
· Movie
· 121 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3646
- IMDb #3128
- Google retired #382
- Rotten Tomatoes #3628
- Metacritic #3552
- Letterboxd #3542
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4543
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2651
- Metacritic Critics #3586
- Metacritic Audience #3230
- Criticker #2795
- Douban #1361
- Kinopoisk #3017
- AlloCiné #3104
- Trakt #2680
Every rating
34–94
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 34, highest is Google on 94. Critics average 41, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A Navy SEAL lieutenant and his team are sent into the Nigerian jungle to rescue a doctor from a civil war. She refuses to leave without her patients. When the mission is compromised, he disobeys orders to lead the refugees on a dangerous trek to safety through hostile rebel territory.
Details
- Director
- Antoine Fuqua
- Writers
- Alex Lasker, Patrick Cirillo
- Released
- 7 March 2003
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $75.0M
- Box office
- $86.5M
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