Act of Valor
United States
2012
101 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent. –IMDb
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Christopher Scott Zeidel
18Oct12
Manipulative, corny, plot-less, and mostly just a propaganda piece. It is just a stupid action film pretending to be something more serious. I found it to be truly awful.
Andre Rehal
27Sep12
I was hoping for more insight into the Seals like what Generation Kill did for the Recon Marines but instead I got a rejected plot to the next Call of Duty or Medal of Honour games. Also, the first person camera work took me right out of the film and seemed needless.
Markus Baumknecht
29Jun12
An action film that is basically pure propaganda for the US military uses a poem that was written by a Native American chief in resistance to the US military as a leitmotif for honour and dignity. The people who made this film are either highly cynical or unbelievably stupid. But then again, the US use Native American names for most of their war gear: Apache helicopters, Tomahawk Missiles, ...
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Review: ACT OF VALOR
By Twitchfilm.com on February 24, 2012
A run-of-the-mill, first-person shooter cloaked in the trappings of docu-drama, Act of Valor is a curious hybrid, a transparent military recruitment device that puts most of its emphasis on the action
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