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"Tears of the Sun,"the new military adventure movie starring Bruce Willis, is a troubled dream of Africa. The physical terrain (with Hawaii standing in for Nigeria) is a stunningly beautiful fantasia of dark high grass surrounded by thick rain forests; the human terrain is a sorrowful tangle of ethnic cleansing and atrocity. Directed by the gifted African-American Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day”), "Tears of the Sun"is visually alive, and the movie tries, within the severely formulaic limits of action-adventure films, to be morally alive, too. A crack unit of eight Navy seals, led by Lieutenant A. K. Waters (Willis), is dropped into Nigeria in the middle of civil ...