Act of Valor

Today we decided to discuss an action called Act of Valor. This movie is about well-known special force –  and their way to fight with the terrorists, kidnappers and all kinds of mafia. If you like to watch colorful films with many effects, explosions, ambushes, gunfights - this movie is for you.

Act of Valor - it is an action with drama elements, just to spice things up a bit. At the beginning we see a man who is writing a letter and tell us about such value an honor, ethos etc…  After that we see a SEALs team make training jump, while in the other part of the world in Philippines merciless fanatic made an explosion at school…

Afterwards camera moves back to United States, where viewer meets all members of the platoon. They were gathered with their families on a nice sandy beach, around the campfire… For them, it was one great evening before the next mission. That is first time when narrator (which is also a SEALS chief) tells us a little information about every member of the team, about their past… That is how this movie begins…     



Story line.  CIA  agent was kidnapped in Costa Rica by the heavily gunned suspects that have been hired by the international criminal of USSR origins named Christo.  Special operations forces (SEALs) were sent to recovery an agent and bring her back home. They did the mission, but during the assault one of the members got wounded…

In this operation they have picked a cell phone which was a clue, as it belonged to a criminal that was responsible for the kidnapping. He had further plans to kill many people by using suicide bombers. 

Two members of SEALs were sent to Africa to collect intelligence about terrorist activities, while other group located main criminal on a luxury yacht somewhere at the sea… After an interrogation and few strong words SEALs Senior Miller got information… 

The group of bad guys was preparing explosive vests in Mexico. They also planned to sneak to United States though the tunnel under Mexican-American border and make explosions in the biggest cities.

That was the reason why SEALs came there to Mexico and took all enemies down.  During this operation one ave was wounded badly, but survived. 

This movie was shot in different countries such as USA, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ukraine.

 As far as we can see there is a real story behind this movie. It is about courage, valor and heroic sacrifices…It’s about United States Armed Forces in common meaning and in this case it is about United States Navy. 

Some scenes remind you such popular game actions like Call of Duty or Battlefield 3. Especially at the end of the movie, where they had last fight with the terrorists, when chief Dave was wounded badly there was a view exactly like in Battlefield 3…

Viewers have different opinions which are available on imdb.com. For example:

 erol-mehmet-a  thinks that is: “Typical American propaganda movie” while  voyeurn3  wrote that this film has “Unrealistic scene”...

Inspire of those strong comments we are recommend you to watch this movie just to get own opinion. Except that if you like military planes, helicopters, boats - this movie is for you.