Damn Few.<\/p>\n
Act of Valor began life as a training video for Special Warefare Combatant Craft crewmen.\u00a0 After working with real Navy SEALs, filmakers Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh got several ideas for an action film.\u00a0 Active duty SEALs started out as advisors on the film but it quickly became clear that the only people capable of portraying the SEALs as written were…\u00a0 well, the SEALs themselves.\u00a0 And as the Navy saw this\u00a0as a recruitment opportunity they required active duty SEALs to participate.<\/p>\n
So the stars of the film are completely anonomous as their names have not and will not be released as they are currently somewhere killing someone who’s an asshole.<\/p>\n
The movie begins as a SEAL team is sent into Columbia to rescue a CIA asset who has important information (her CIA contact has just been brutally murdered).\u00a0 The information is about a plot about a large scale terror attack designed to hit several US cities simultaniously.\u00a0 The information leads to several more missions.<\/p>\n
The supporting cast are all actual actors, and decent ones.\u00a0 I especially like the Eastern bloc Muslim terrorist and his childhood friend who became an international smuggler.\u00a0 Though the smuggler is Jewish and their adult relationship is complicated, the smuggler is still willing to help his friend.\u00a0 Pretty decent job by both actors.<\/p>\n
Obviously the SEALs are better at the action scenes than the small scenes of human interaction required by the plot.\u00a0 They are not actors.\u00a0 Although…\u00a0 Now that I say that, one of them is a pretty good actor.\u00a0 Their Senior Chief is in charge of interrogation and he’s gifted at his job.\u00a0 I laughed my ass off during the interrogation scene, but it’s because I’m a bad person.<\/p>\n
The action sequences are pretty awesome, my only issue is I thought the 2nd and 3rd major sequences were too similar to each other.\u00a0 I would have liked to have seen a little more ninja and less rambo in at least one of them.\u00a0 The 1st action sequence (CIA asset extraction) might be the best of the year.\u00a0 And don’t discount those dudes who drive the boats.\u00a0 They can lay some pipe.<\/p>\n
This is a unique movie experience, I’d give it a look if I were you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Damn Few. Act of Valor began life as a training video for Special Warefare Combatant Craft crewmen.\u00a0 After working with real Navy SEALs, filmakers Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh got several ideas for an action film.\u00a0 Active duty SEALs started … Continue reading