Plot hole: After the team takes care of the ethnic cleansers, there is a flat-bed lorry with a belt-fed weapon just sitting there. Since the cleansers came in from somewhere ahead of the team, why not load the refugees onto the truck and head out? If nothing else, it would increase their lead over the pursuers.
Tears of the Sun (2003)
1 plot hole - chronological order
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci, Cole Hauser, Eamonn Walker
Factual error: In the final fight scene, you hear members of the SEAL team yelling "Grenade!" before chucking a grenade. They are supposed to yell "Frag out!" as yelling out "grenade!" is a warning of incoming enemy grenades.
Kelly Lake: The first name of the character of Johnny Messner, Kelly, means 'warrior' in Gaelic.
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