Act of Valor
‘Act of Valor’ is an impressive movie about the cult of professional warriors in the age of global terrorism. Directors Mouse McCoy and Scott Waugh collaborated with the US Navy and actual Navy SEALs to give the film a sense of battle tactics and environment on par with ‘Black Hawk Down’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’. What little is lost in the SEALs’ lack of acting chops is more than made up for by honest performances from the men who actually do this stuff for a living and the film’s gripping battle realism. The movie sidesteps an overt political point of view, wisely focusing on the men and their mission rather than commenting on the times in which they serve.
As long as the SEALS don’t talk, the scenes are brilliant. Military fans won’t be disappointed with many sequences showing what SEALs do best: raids, room clearing, firefights, insertion by SDV, and HALO jumps. The movie plays like a 101-minute long first-person-shooter video game. The SEAL team is largely reactive: being dispatched globally from one skirmish to another, where accomplishing one mission just means earning the opportunity to move on to the next mission level. When you really come down to it, the plot doesn’t much matter for this movie, serving largely as a vehicle to showcase military hardware and delivery of tactical missions.
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awesome movie
action is superb
i really liked it