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Add your rating. Parents say 12 Kids say Teen, 15 years old Written by Luke15 July 14, Act of Valor, this film is based on real acts of valor Where do I start! The SEALs are sent out on a personnel recovery mission and discover that it is only the beginning, as they discover a plot to smuggle suicide bombers into the US under the cover of a drug trading organization.
The violence: Some would call it extreme. And it is. In a way. Remember, this is war we are watching. War isn't, nor should it be, a public spectacle. But films like this give us a glimpse into what these men and women do for us. I guarantee you that if all the violence in war was depicted in full from their perspective without all the sugar coating, it would exceed an NC rating.
Be thankful they serve and protect us and see the violence so we don't have to. But also be thankful for films that give that glimpse so we can appreciate the horrors they go through and pray for our service members.
There is a good, but not extreme, amount of gore. Perhaps the worst gore we see is a sniper kill through the scope. We see several of these actually. Much of the combat is depicted Call of Duty style from a rifle cam. Much of it also is shadowed. There is frequent blood spatter on windows though. It's the intensity that really gets you though. It's very intense. We see many combat sequences that depict anything from hand to hand combat to SWCC boats opening fire with mini guns and 50 cals from South American rivers.
Language: There are 17 uses of the f-word. It's hardly noticeable, but one is paired with mother. Black Hawk Down has 37 F-words, lone survivor has Sex: None except a few goodbye kisses and a few bikini clad girls. Messages and role models: You couldn't ask for better of these, the good guys are courageous, and selfless at all time and yet will stop and nothing, and I mean nothing, to protect each other and the homeland.
All in all this is a must see for anyone 14 and over with their dad. The actors are almost as bad as the SEALs, and it's sometimes embarrassingly easy to tell the staged action from the real thing. As a piece of filmed entertainment, "Act of Valor" will never be mistaken for "Top Gun," but it's a heck of a recruitment video.
Real Estate Technology Cars Columns. Print Share fb Share Tweet Email. And the acting isn't very good, however, I think the message outweighs the actions. I thought it sent a powerful message about the sacrifices our military makes each and every day. My boys age 11 and 14 loved it and I thought they learned a valuable lesson. Adult Written by TeeCee March 6, Surprising, I loved it Depending on the maturity of your 12 year old, i have no regrets about taking my son to see this movie.
I hate gore and violence and often have to cover my eyes in movies. Rarely did i have to during Act of Valor. Yes, there is a ton of graphic violence but i discussed that with my 12 year old son beforehand. He knows not to use the language that he heard and that in those situations, that language is used. After seeing this movie, i was surprised to have liked it as much as i did. I went only because my son wanted so badly to see it.
Turned out, i liked it as much as he did. When i asked his opinion of the movie afterwards, he used one word. I find that it made me respect, even more than i did before, all that these men do and give to protect our country. It was an honor, as an American, to see just a bit of what they are willing to take on for our freedom and safety. Adult Written by NavyBrat04 March 2, I can relate to this movie because my father is active in the Navy.
And everything that they go through the parents and the kids go threw the same. It is a very inspiring movie and I recommend it to anyone. For All To all those complaining about the movie being violent or the language consider the type of movie it is.
As for the language, kids hear far more in public, at school, and yes even on the video games at home. Its not what your child sees or hears its how as parents you teach them right from wrong. Hearing or seeing wrong doesnt make a bad person, a bad person emerges when good people do nothing. I would rather have my child watch how True American heroes fight and die for our country and their freedoms as I had encourage watching something like Broke Back Mtn or others stating same sex and no faith is OK.
Adult Written by isback February 27, Great Movie! Andersons ideal rolemodels for children and society. Go to Common Sense Review. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Print. Personalize your media recommendations. How old is your kid? But a Hero need not demonstrate this display of proselytizing that is the soul of this syrupy screenplay. This could have been an effective recruitment statement and an endearing respectful account of brave men and women with a little more restraint and a lot more intelligence.
Co-directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh managed to land actual Navy Seals to play all the principal roles, and they lens the action from the perspective of these silent warriors. Several times throughout this energetic but predictable yarn, you will see what the action looks like through the gun sights of our heroes guns.
These images resemble those in a first-person shooter video game. News about Morales' capture has prompted Christo to meet one last time with another terrorist, Abu Shabal Jason Cottle of "Wag the Dog" , to conclude a terrorist plan of attack.
Shabal wants to dispatch suicide bombers to America armed with unobtrusive vests lined with explosive ceramic ball-bearings. If you've seen the John Travolta thriller "Swordfish," you can imagine grimly what these vests can do. Furthermore, they are equipped with ceramic ball-bearings because metal detectors will not be able to pick them up at checkpoints. Our heroes pull Morales out and take a cell phone lousy with useful information.
No sooner have our heroes return with Morales than they find themselves in either North Africa watching a plane and primed to enter Mexico. They plunge into a village and eliminate more enemy until they track Abu Shabal. You can see why things have a tendency to go south on the Seals, and the McCoy and Waugh never make it look like a picnic.
The orchestration of the action in the air, on the ground, and at sea gives this adventure epic a larger-than-life ambiance. Our heroes gradually whittle down the opposition. At one point, in the South Pacific, they catch a break or two and nab Christo on his yacht.
They threaten to deprive him of ever seeing his family again unless he coughs up information. He tells the Seals about the vests with ceramic ball bearings. Our heroes enter Mexico and with the help of local authorities, they track down Shabal along with the remnants of this force.
Patriotic, emotional, and jammed with plenty of action, "Act of Valor" isn't bad. Just to keep you on the edge of your seat, the filmmakers sacrifice one of the Navy Seals and this makes them more sympathetic. The action scenes are handled with verve. To be honest, I wasn't hating on this movie at first, till I realized after a while that the story was absolutely going nowhere, the characters remained incredibly flat and the movie had absolutely no sense of excitement or tension in it.
Seriously, I can't even tell you what this movie is all about, since it has such a weakly present story in it, that doesn't even seem all that important. Basically all the movie does is showing the one shootout or action scene after the other, with in between some horrendous dialog and acting by its non-actors.
It's about some sort of terrorist plot but you never get a sense of true urgency and danger, so the movie also just can't ever let you care enough about it. Perhaps I would had still cared slightly about it all, if there were some good or likable enough characters in it. But I don't even know who is who in this movie or who is supposed to be the main character throughout. They are also all incredibly flat and I couldn't have cared less about any of them.
Absolulty nothing to the characters or sense of realism of this movie. On the contrary quite really, since most of them can't act at all, which only brings the movie more down. It also was obviously not an all that expensive movie to make. Sometimes it's actually a real cheap looking B-movie, with especially some bad special effects. I do admit that if you leave your brain at the door, there is still plenty to enjoy about this movie.
But as a movie itself it is far too lacking, on basically every department. You are still way better off playing a video game yourself, something this movie obviously tried to be too much like itself. Or, to put it another way, this is a generic action movie centring around an international plot involving terrorists and drug traffickers, with the novelty factor being that the SEALS are played by real-life SEALS.
The action sequences are OK. The non-action sequences are, frankly, pretty bad. The dialogue is awful - maybe they do talk like that when they are planning missions, but it comes over as dreadfully unconvincing to a movie-going audience.
This is not helped by the fact that our real-life heroes are, to a man, not actors. And this is pointed up by the fact that proper actors play the other parts: even though, with the exception of Roselyn Sanchez and Nestor Serrano, I had never heard of any of them, they still act the socks off the unfortunate non-thesps at the heart of this.
I wonder what the point of it all was? Overall decent Wizard-8 14 June The storyline does give a lot of excuses for action sequences, though these scenes are pretty well done, coming across somewhat more realistically than battle scenes from other movies.
The problem I had was that their portrayals are extremely thin to non- existent. We learn next to nothing about them. One of the little things we do learn about them is that one is married and is expecting a child, which means this SEAL member will end up Not the best movie, but interesting.
I found the movie Act of Valor entertaining. One learns that special forces have to understand and fight the enemy on many levels. The seals fight the enemy physically, emotionally, and intellectually. One sees how the Seals on a mission have to access a situation which leads to other missions. One sees the Seal as a team which is willing to sacrifice everything.
The team, is physically, mentally, spiritually and intellectually prepared. The missions are preformed with precision. The ending of the movie is sad, but expected. I give Act of Valor seven out of ten. I guess for people who like that kind of movies Act Of Valor is a good one.
At least for the action scenes. Those were good but the acting wasn't great at all. About the story it's a typical American propaganda movie. I can see republican patriotic rednecks loving this movie. But for an outsider like me, that is already not very fond on wars and propaganda it's a bit dull for a movie.
You perfectly know what will happen in this movie from the second it started. It's not even a spoiler if I tell you America will win. I don't think I ever saw a movie in this genre where America didn't win. But okay the action scenes were good, I'll give you that.
Except from a navy seal hit at close range by a rocket that has no injuries at all, the rest was okay. A movie to watch once and then forget about it. But only if you like this kind of movies otherwise just pass on it. You cannot deny that Act of Valor is one massive recruitment commercial for the United States Army, having put its elite Navy Seals on display here in a number of missions set to make a career in the armed forces look terribly sexy.
If you cannot stand America's flexing of military might in films, as it had done here with the sanctioned participation of real, but unnamed Navy Seals, then this is not the film for you. If you're offended by America's show of overwhelming firepower in its arsenal almost like to kill a chicken with a bull knife, then this is also a film that will set to turn you off. So why the film reached number one in the US is hardly a no-brainer, with its sense of patriotism steep in its narrative, and paying tribute to active duty servicemen who are fighting for freedom and against tyranny anywhere around the world, and to remember those who have fallen while in the line of duty.
Directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh hardly hid this bit of flag waving during the end credits, and throughout the film had plenty of moments to showcase everything positive about being part of an elite troop ready to be called upon anywhere in the world for pre-emptive strikes, or to rescue one of their own from terrorists in whatever form they take, regardless of borders they operate in. Why this film will succeed anywhere else in the world, is its appeal to those curious to take a sneak peek behind the scenes and be in awe of the scope of military hardware on display.
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