Movie review for the day

Rico says that, every once in awhile, a movie lives up to its promos, and Act of Valor is certainly one of them. Made with real SEALs, using real equipment [everything from a nuclear submarine (photo, top) with a SEAL Delivery Vehicle to Swift boats with chain guns and HALO jumps (photos, center) to the Bonhomme Richard (photo, bottom)], this is one hell of an action movie. (Must be nice, as the director, to have all these great toys to play with; somebody got seriously in bed with the Navy on this one.)
It started out slow, with a rescue of a CIA hostage from a bunch of terrorists, then sped up and zoomed through ops on three continents, with a whole range of bad guys, from the Mexican mafia to Ukrainian smugglers to crazed Chechen jihadis.