Act of Valor (B-)

Ok, if you can accept that the acting is pretty bad and just enjoy the crazy action scenes, you too might also give this a decent rating.  The dialogue has a strange Navy commercial feel to it, not very "real life".  I like to think that most soldiers curse alot, but the dialogue in this was delivered overly perfect and clean.  It was actually the complete opposite of the dialogue in Full Metal Jacket, which my brother (a Marine) said was pretty accurate.  Maybe Navy guys are just more proper and eloquent? 

Anyway, the action was nuts.  From what I read online they used alot of live ammo to blow things up and shred stuff with insane machine guns.  That's something my brother did mention about fake Hollywood action movies; the artillery looks/sounds nothing like the real stuff, for example he said real hand grenades have such powerful percussion that it practically takes your breath away.  Most Hollywood grenades look like a poofy of fire and some dirt flying out of a small hole.  Well, Act of Valor was the opposite, the sound and destruction just felt authentically awesome.   Especially the river boat scene with the miniguns (see below pic of the bullet-riddled SUV), that scene was unreal.  I suppose having the entire Navy arsenal at your disposal makes it easy to put awesomeness into a flick.  If only it had R.Lee Ermy in it, then this would have ruled. 

Part of me watched this and missed the cheesiness of the Charles Sheen & Michael Biehn epic "Navy Seals".  Remember the scene in where they go golfing in 80's neon shorts?  That ruled.