Coming as it does on the heels of Navy SEAL Team 6’s stunning capture of the Osama bin Laden compound, Act of Valor, which builds a narrative around real SEALs in action, comes at a time of heightened ...

Saturday night I went to see "Act of Valor" at the Somerville Theatre. As a fan of both action and military movies (two very different things, thank you), I had high expectations going in and had ...

Just barely a movie, “Act of Valor” is more like a high-quality recruitment video with interstitial acting. Sissy things like plot and character development aren’t worthy of the mission. It’s as ...

Act of Valor features a number of active Navy Seals in a tale of anti-terrorism based on true events. The film sees the elite fighting force uncover a worldwide plot following the rescue of a CIA ...

When “Top Gun” was about to be released on video, the studio offered the U.S. Navy the chance to put a promotional advertisement at the start of the tape in exchange for credit toward the production.

"Act of Valor" contains hard-hitting combat footage, relentless and effective. There is a story behind the film that is no less engrossing. In an introduction at the beginning, its co-directors, Mike ...

An unprecedented blend of real-life heroism and original filmmaking, Act of Valor stars a group of active-duty Navy SEALs in a powerful story of contemporary global anti-terrorism. Inspired by true ...

Relativity Media and Bandito Brothers’ Navy SEAL action-thriller Act of Valor, starring active-duty Navy SEALs, was independently produced by the media company using technology from AJA Video Systems.

The scary new genre of reality movies — different than reality TV — are also not the same as a documentary, which looks at real people doing real things to tell a story. Reality movies take real ...

When "Top Gun" was about to be released on video, the studio offered the U.S. Navy the chance to put a promotional advertisement at the start of the tape in exchange for credit toward the production.

Plenty of movies let you know fairly quickly that they’re going to be excruciating. Far rarer is something that starts out excruciating, then becomes utterly fascinating. And rarer still is a movie ...