Act of Valor

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When a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly uncovers a chilling plot with potentially unimaginable consequences, a team of the most elite, highly-trained warriors in the modern world is dispatched on a top-secret operation.
  • Starring: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez
  • Directed by: Mouse McCoy
  • Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
  • Release year: 2012
  • Studio: Relativity Media, LLC
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Synopsis: When a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative unexpectedly uncovers a chilling plot with potentially unimaginable consequences, a team of the most elite, highly-trained warriors in the modern world is dispatched on a top-secret operation.
Starring: Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez
Supporting actors: Nestor Serrano
Directed by: Mike McCoy, Scott Waugh
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
Captions and Subtitles: Details
Release year: 2012
Studio: Relativity Media, LLC
MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong violence including some torture, and for language
ASIN: B00846TTDG
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  • US Theatrical Release Date: Feburary 24, 2012
  • MPAA: Rated R for strong violence including some torture, and for language
  • Production Company: Bandito Brothers
  • Filming Locations: USA | Philippines | Cambodia | El Centro, California, USA | Key West, Florida Keys, Florida, USA

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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“ This movie was harder to watch the second time, but man, do I love this film. ” Courtney S. Putnam  |  190 reviewers made a similar statement
“ The Navy Seals are awesome! ” Diane Morris  |  57 reviewers made a similar statement
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394 of 429 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!!! February 24, 2012
By L. COP TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
I know some people will think this movie shouldn't have gotten 5 stars because of the acting. I did not go to this movie for the acting, I went to see our real life Navy Seals pay tribute to those who sacrificed everything for our country, and I was not disappointed.

I have read several books by Seals and about Seals over the years, starting way back when Dick Marcinko's first book came out, and I always watch any movie or tv special about them. I feel it takes a special kind of person to do this job and it fascinates me.

This movie has a fictional plot; however, the extractions and sacrifices in the movie all have actually happened in the field and they are re enacted in this movie in different locations. How awesome was it to sit their and watch the things I had imagined in my head in real life. I say real life, because these are things they actually do, real technology actually used, real split second decisions actually made. The action was fantastic and I will go see this movie again on the big screen to make sure I caught everything.

What was most profound to me was the way the team worked together and their commitment to each other. The fact that they can see something horrific happen to their best friend, and keep doing their job, put their emotion aside until their mission is done. I have read in countless books about men that keeping going while wounded not for themselves or to get back home, but so they don't let down the person next to them, the person they go into battle with. This movie shows that. It shows these men to be multi faceted. They are not war mongers. They are men with families and a deep sense of history and honor. This is what I feel should be taken away from the movie.... Read more ›
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119 of 128 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Saw It Yesterday...Saw It Again Today...Would Buy It Tomorrow March 3, 2012
By Courtney S. Putnam
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
This one really grabbed me. It reminded me of the same emotions I had watching Taking Chance(also recommended). This movie was harder to watch the second time, but man, do I love this film. I am a retired Chief who served on submarines. Everything I saw that related to my career was absolutely accurate. I imagine the rest of the film was just as credible. I sure admire these military folks!
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178 of 201 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars About as real of a movie as it gets. February 10, 2012
By Michael G
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
You might notice the date for this post is two weeks before launch. that is because I am part of the military and was invited to an advance showing of this movie.

Non-spoiler summary: Act Of valor is based around SEAL Team 7 sometime around September 2010. This is a fictionalized film, these events really did not happen but they are based on events that have happened to SEALS since the war on terrorism. In 2007 the two directors of this film, Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh, worked on a film project where the navy allowed them to work with real Navy SEALS. The directors came out with an idea to make a realistic movie based on the Navy SEALS. While deciding on casting they decided that the only people they wanted playing the Seals were the Seals they met themselves. Act of Valor uses real Navy SEALS and at times real ammunition in some of the fire fight scenes.

If you have not seen this film I definitely recommend to at least rent it. It is not a documentary but it is the most realistic military movie that I have seen. Definitely worth a viewing.

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A CIA operative is captured by a drug smuggler. SEAL Team 7 is sent in to save her. SEAL Team 7 discovers the Drug smuggler is connected to a high level terrorist that seeks vengeance on America. The SEALS are in a race against time to uncover the plot and stop the terrorist before they reach their target in America.
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67 of 78 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal February 21, 2012
By Jay B. Lane
Format:DVD
Navy SEALs are America's warriors du jour. Remember that spectacular demonstration of marksmanship when three of them, standing on a tossing boat, felled three hostage-holding Somali pirates with simultaneous shots? That was followed a year or so later by the end of Osama bin Laden, so these elite fighters are the ones we look to for military prowess.

I can only hope this film's regular release contains the introduction by the two principals behind this project. They were embedded with a platoon of Navy SEALs in hopes they would get enough material for a movie. It quickly became obvious to them that there are NO Hollywood actors who could approach the calibre of the men they were with, in terms of fitness, devotion to their families, intelligence, and skill levels. Consequently, they cast a group of active duty SEALs! (Shooting was occasionally delayed while cast members were briefly deployed.) When we know those guys up there on the screen have actually done the things we see, it adds immeasurably to our involvement; plus, many of the scenes were shot using live ammo!

The upshot is, even though the Bandido Platoon is a fictitious one, this story is based on feats of the most elite, highly trained group of effective warriors in the modern world, using up-to-the-minute technology under highly challenging circumstances. Because of artistic license, we see the same seven men off the coast of Somalia, in the Ukraine, in the tropical forests of Costa Rica and just south of the Mexican border. They are trying to stop a chilling plot that uses ceramic pellets in suicide vests. Ceramic doesn't set off metal detectors, so terrorists plan a coordinated attack in crowded areas: football games, shopping malls, concert arenas and airports.... Read more ›
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