Synopsis
When a covert mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative uncovers a chilling plot, an elite, highly trained U.S. SEAL team speeds to hotspots around the globe, racing against the clock to stop a deadly terrorist attack.
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Cast
- Roselyn SánchezLisa Morales
- Emilio RiveraSanchez
- Gonzalo MenendezCommander Pedros
- Marissa LabogRecruit
- Nestor SerranoWalter Ross
- Alex VeadovChristo
- Drea CastroRecruit
- Nick GomezChristo's Thug
- Jason CottleAbu Shabal
- Alexander AsefaChristo's Thug
Recommendations
- 75
Boston Globe
Peculiarly entertaining exercise in bare-bones, Hollywood-style action heroism. - 63
ReelViews
The best I can say is that I was never bored, although I was never overwhelmed, either. There are enough small things to keep it interesting even when many of the big things fail. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Act of Valor is gift-wrapped in patriotism. It was once intended as a recruitment film, and that's how it plays. - 60
Arizona Republic
It would benefit greatly from having real actors in the major roles. That the bad guys -- who are actors -- are more charismatic is certainly not due to the fact that we are on their side. It's because they know how to make us want to watch. - 58
Tampa Bay Times
Act of Valor will likely earn high praise from combat veterans and their families, the way movies like "Fireproof" and "Seven Days in Utopia" resonate with Christians. Civilians, movie critics and certainly pacifists won't be nearly as impressed. - 50
Village Voice
The villains come across as individuals rather more compellingly than do the film's ostensible heroes, mostly mouthpieces for warrior credo recited in voiceover. - 50
Chicago Tribune
The action beats come straight out of the video game "Call of Duty." And when you have real SEALs placed in a picture that lives and dies on the same old first-person-shooter aesthetic, you have a film divided against itself. - 25
The A.V. Club
It's thin material, to say the least, and manipulative to boot, putting women, children, and a SEAL father-to-be in jeopardy in ways more about servicing cheap thrills than any larger point about the perilous state of the world in 2012.
