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Tears of the Sun

by John Cole|  March 7, 20034:44 pm| 3 Comments

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I guess I will not be wasting my money on Tears of the Sun. here are some selected quotes from the NY Times review:

The audience’s tears are more likely to result from boredom, irritation at Hans Zimmer’s wretched fake-world-music score and inadvertent amusement at the thunderously earnest dialogue and Ms. Bellucci’s awkward line readings. (She has now made movies in three languages; whether she can act in any of them is an open question.)

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All of this aside, the film’s bogus, deliberately na

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  1. 1.

    barney gumble

    March 7, 2003 at 7:11 pm

    Co-incidentally, I was able to gombine reviews of TFTS with my opinion of the press conference by President Clever Hans last night:

    http://mwowatchwatchwatchwatch.blogspot.com/2003_03_02_mwowatchwatchwatchwatch_archive.html#90303174

  2. 2.

    barney gumble

    March 7, 2003 at 7:11 pm

    Co-incidentally, I was able to gombine reviews of TFTS with my opinion of the press conference by President Clever Hans last night:

    http://mwowatchwatchwatchwatch.blogspot.com/2003_03_02_mwowatchwatchwatchwatch_archive.html#90303174

  3. 3.

    John Cole

    March 10, 2003 at 1:14 am

    Well- the rest of the reviews I have seen were positive, so I may have to ignore the NYT.

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