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‘act of valor’ is a new Hollywood action movie that could easily have been made by leni riefenstahl, with real navy seals going after those evil terrorists .. here’s NCR review by Sr. Rose Pacatte ..

“Captain Duncan Smith, [an] active duty U.S. Navy SEAL, was one of the key players in developing Act of Valor. “..This is the first film to begin as a Naval Special Warfare project” [he said] .. Act of Valor has excellent production values, fine cinematography and eye-grabbing, nerve-racking action sequences .. I understand the film, but I didn’t like it because it felt like a snow job to me, a recruitment movie .. impeccably timed violence .. blasting its beautiful savagery onto the screen .. [the movie] is a propaganda film, pure and simple. At the premiere in Hollywood on Feb. 13, a team of Navy SEALs parachuted onto the red carpet at the Arclight theater on Sunset Boulevard.

David Sirota also wrote about this film at Salon .. i saw a trailer for ‘valor’ when i went to see ‘Safe House’, Denzel’s new flick where he plays a rogue CIA officer fed up with US imperialism – ‘Safe House’ is the #1 box office film right now after 3 weeks in theaters – ‘valor’ opened yesterday and got terrible reviews (28% on the Rotten Tomato meter) .. strange days – mab .. read more