![]() No, he doesn’t say it would be “9/11 times one hundred,” but he comes close. He’s planning the sort of massive terrorist attack that only a Hollywood screenwriter (like, say, Kurt Johnstad of “ 300”) could plan, involving suicide bombers escaping over the border with ceramic necklaces undetectable by common metal detectors, but containing enough firepower for one terrorist to favorably compare the plan’s possible impact to that of 9/11. Somehow, they could not cram the Yakuza into this thing. There’s a rogue terrorist, with ties to the Russian mafia, the Taliban and Mexican drug cartels. The story of “Act Of Valor” is strictly streamlined b-movie territory. ![]() Which is why “Act Of Valor” tries to trump all modern action pictures by claiming to be the real deal, down to the marketing-ready gimmick of casting actual Navy SEALs. A title card appears early explaining that the film is “based on real acts of valor,” which is a nice way of saying none of this is true, but it probably happened at some point in spirit, because you can’t snuff the spirit of heroism. What have you done today? Probably nothing, says “ Act Of Valor,” the new military recruitment film from directors ‘Mouse’ McCoy and Scott Waugh.
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