Act of Valor

Actors:  Bunch on un-credited Navy SEALs, Roselyn Sanchez, Alex Veadov, Jason Cottle
Rating:  8 out of 10, this was an interesting blend of real life and Hollywood.  The action scenes were some of the best I’ve seen in film.  The use of real life SEALs was also very well done and as an old infantryman it was heartwarming the see the tactical scenarios run using actual techniques versus the usual Hollywood embellishments.  All this being said the acting, understandably, was uniformly terrible.  You could really tell when a real actor was in a scene opposite one of the military guys, it was starkly obvious.  The movie comes to a lurching halt whenever they try to get the military guys to act.  The plot moves right along and is coherent if a little fast paced for a non-military viewer.  I was watching this with my wife who has a tough time seeing contemporary military films because it drags up some the fears she experienced with her quarter century as an Army wife.  She was alternating between tears and satisfaction throughout.  By the end of the movie she agreed with me, they mostly got it right.  Watch this for the action scenes which will get you through the cringe worthy dramatic scenes.
MVP:  The SEALs, probably the worst actors in history of cinema but also the most dangerous