Tuesday 17 July 2012

Act Of Valour (2012) 6/10

Starring : Roselyn Sanchez, Jason Cottle, Alex Veadov, Nestor Serrano, Ailsa Marshall
Director : Scott Waugh & Mouse McCoy
Running Time : 111mins

When CIA agent Lisa Morales (Sanchez) is kidnapped from an intelligence meeting in Costa Rica by drug smuggler Christo Troykovich (Veadov), an elite team of Navy SEALs are sent in to rescue her.

It was a great idea to intersperse real Navy SEALs and actors in this imaginative action flick, but it suffers from the fact that the Navy SEALs are not actors. Their delivery is predictable and hokey, and ‘characters’ that you know are going to die talk about their families back home literally seconds before they explode or something. Sanchez is weak as the victim of the piece, and Veadov is almost a non-entity as the villain, but I’m sure that Americans will love seeing their boys fighting for life and liberty in this surprisingly well-received flick.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Hurt Locker



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