Undermined by Bruce Willis's one-note performance and its own unresolved political underpinnings, action director Antoine Fuqua's bid to make a serious drama about moral responsibility nevertheless has honorable aspirations, even as it becomes mired in mainstream movie conventions. Set in Nigeria during a fictitious military coup by Muslim rebels who've seized power by murdering the country's democratically elected president and his family, it charts the moral awakening of by-the-book Lt. A.K. Waters (Willis). Waters and his SEALS are ordered into the Nigerian jungle to get the white people out: First and foremost Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), an American by ...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
118 mins