Bruce Willis turns in a great performance in this action film that rises above to deal with serious, contemporary political and moral issues.

Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K.Waters (Bruce Willis) and his elite squadran of tatcical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protetc a group of innocent refugees.

When the democratic government of Nigeria collaspes and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercly loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a rountine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician, Dr. Lena Kendricks(Monica Bellucci).

Dr Kendricks, an American citizen by marriage, is tending to victims of the ongoing civil war at a Catholic mission in a remote village. When Water's arrives, Kendricks refuses to leave the village unless he promises to help deliver the villagers to political asylum in at thenearby border. If they are left behind, they will be at the mercy of the enormous rebel army.

'Two thumbs up' - Ebert and Roeper