Friday, February 24, 2012

Act of valor

  • Act of Valor blurs the line between the real and the unreal something fierce.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • The film "Act of Valor," opening this weekend in theaters nationwide, is a fictional account of a potential terrorist attack on American soil using, as the press materials tout, "real-life" active duty US Navy SEALs.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • A new movie about Navy SEALs opens Friday, and it has Doug Sterner concerned. The film, Act of Valor, revolves around a team of SEALs trying to rescue a captured CIA agent.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • In a scene that could have jumped out of a Michael Bay movie — or, in the Obama era of surgical warfare, a video monitor in the White House Situation Room — a team of U.S.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Heading into this weekends box-office battle, Act of Valor has the competition in its cross hairs. The action film featuring  about a dozen active-duty Navy SEALs is poised to pick off its rivals at the multiplex, claiming the No.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • SALT LAKE CITY -- The box office threw a curve ball at our movie predictions last weekend. In first was Safe House, making a surprise climb in popularity from a second-spot opening last week, despite a wave of new releases.
  • (ksl.com)
  • Drama. Starring Alex Veadov, Roselyn Sanchez and Nestor Serrano. Directed by Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh. (R. 101 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Act of Valor should be one awesome recruitment tool for the Navy SEALs. Real bullets fly.
  • (San Francisco Gate)
  • After the coffee. Before finishing my Oscar pool picks. The Skinny: I dont know about you, but I no longer care whether Sacha Baron Cohen gets to walk the red carpet of this Sundays Oscar in his dictator suit and big bushy beard.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • "Act of Valor" is one of the oddest and most confounding military thrillers ever made. Some of it is amazing; much of it is awful.
  • (Northwest Herald)
  • Navy SEALs do most of their work in secret. But theyve been in the spotlight recently because of last years high-profile raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and a daring hostage rescue in Somalia last month.
  • (CBS News)

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