Navy Seals

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Sometimes it's a worthwhile exercise to suspend disbelief and just enjoy a 'splosion-filled action-adventure movie. Commercials for "Navy Seals" aired in 1990, complete with the high-altitude low opening (HALO) and Close-Quarters Battle (CQB) sequences that motivate your average guy in uniform to fork over six bucks (at the time) for a good thrill ride. The elements seemed to be there. Charlie Sheen as a hothead adrenaline junkie junior grade lieutenant. Bill Paxton as "God" the sniper (comic relief). Michael Biehn as the Seal platoon leader (again - see "The Abyss" followed by "The Rock"). Dennis Haysbert (known to most as President David Palmer from 24) as team chief. Alas, the real bomb was not one of the many that detonated over the course of the movie. It was the film itself. What went wrong? Where did it go wrong? In Libya? In Beirut? Nope. In Hollywood, where plausibility and editing gave way to the desire to Pack It All In There.

Navy Special Warfare is an interesting community, comprised mostly of dedicated, serious professionals. They have fantastic weapons and equipment, and train in a variety of missions. Shrouded in secrecy, the SEALs' popularity apexed in the early 1990s. Instead of tapping American fascination by allowing a glimpse of this group's capability, the producers appear to have wanted to create a commercial showcase-or recruiting advertisement-for the community congruous to what "Top Gun" did for Navy Air and "The Hunt for Red October" did for The Silent Service. So, we got Everything. HALO. Locking out of a submarine. Closed-circuit scuba. In-extremis Hostage Rescue. Helocasting. Ship takedown (VBSS). The Special Application Scoped Rifle (incorrectly dubbed "the .50 caliber sniper rifle") with thermal scope. Classic over-reach.

Couple this with two-dimensional villains and wacky, mad-cap SEAL hijinks, and there just wasn't room for things like character development, good dialogue, or a coherent plot. The final battle sequence is laughable in its implausibility, and-of course-has to finish with our protagonists in their element (underwater) for the final showdown.

In five or ten years there will be some good books detailing presumably declassified heroics of the SEAL community in Afghanistan circa 2001-2002. Let's hope a new team does a better job next time around.

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Summary: Great cast gets a lousy script - needs to be remade
Review: The lineup of cast members are really impressive, minus Charlie Sheen, who again makes it to the script's boat motor and pulls and pulls the string, breaking it. My two fav actors are Biehn and Paxton (real life friends) and I must say that this flick was not worthy of the cast, especially these two. Joanne Whaley, Cyril O'Reiley, and Rick Rossovich, also good actors, were wasted. Some scenes, like the debut of their skills, during the rescue of the remaining 2 American G.I.'s, and the skydive to the coast, were great. Too many of the other action scenes were not believable or tactically true. Biehn is always on the ball, although his dialouge and scrpit matter fail to let him shine. Dennis Ranbert, too bad he was knocked off by Sheen's carelessness. And then Hawkin's is still allowed to be on the team? Is the script stupid or what? I vote for a remake, but with the same cast-I know they're older, bu so what. And the lines by Sheen? He's not THAT bad...and it's not his fault: it's the scriptwriter and producers! Sheen just seems to eat up the dialouge like a dinner-he really seems to be having fun with the garbage can script.

Biehn: "Cool off!"
Sheen: "You should see me when I'm hot!"

Rescue the cast and put this NAVY adventure in a kiddie pool with water guns.

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Summary: It's an insult - if it wasn't so darn ridiculous
Review: The movie is so dumb, I can't help but wonder how many Navy Seals felt insulted after seeing it. Maybe it is a cool thing for 12 year olds, I am sure they too want to be able to "sense" a door being locked or having a terrorist behind it just by placing your fingertips on it (did Sheen come up with that one himself??). At no point in the movie did they even look as the professionals they ought to be. At no point did the movie make any sense, or did the story entail any real intrigue or purpose. Perhaps the Beirut scenes make up for some of the idiotic and lame "acting" Sheen throws at you, but overal, I cannot help but feeling that this movie does more harm than good to the image and prestige of the US Navy's finest. Waste of money - waste of time.

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Summary: I was very disappointed
Review: The movie was not one I want to go back and see. it didn't keep me interested and wasn't that correct. It seemed very unrealistic the way one SEAL went around playing around not taking his job seriously.

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Summary: Great Military Action
Review: This a great movie.It sometimes is a feel-good movie other times it becomes serious.The action sequences are first rate and the story line is okay.Michael Biehn is a great actor and this is his best movie(not including Terminator).Charlie Sheen is pretty good as Hawkins-a crazy inmature Navy Seal.The best action sequence is in the end where they waste alot of middle east terrorist that are harboring Stinger missiles!All in all a pretty good action movie.

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Summary: pretty realistic
Review: This film to start off with is pretty good for one made in 1990. Its starts off with quite a bit of intensity as it performs an introduction of the people in the team and the true nature of there missions , it also shows there dedication and amazing skill and all that in just the introduction. This film focuses allot on the characters and the trust between team mates, it also explains the life of a seal pretty well and the ups and downs of being in the seals, and there responsibility in missions. I think anyone who sees this film will be impressed with the realism especially that in the missions as there real extremes are shown. Overall the mission scenes are very realistic, and Charlie Sheen is the craziest in the team, the only down side I think there is, is that there isn't enough emphasis on just how amazingly hard it is it is to get into the seals and just how tough you have to be, otherwise its a well made seals film.

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Summary: ACCURATE AND AWSOM
Review: This movie is the best most authentic action movie ive ever seen it wasent one man blowing up everything in shight but it was accurate to the point of realsiam I LOVED IT

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Summary: Remember!
Review: This movie was great! I think we all have to remember that when you see movies some 10 - 11 years after they were made, it is going to "lose something in the translation"(See TOP GUN!) The movie flowed along nicely, provided a lot of action, took a look inside seal combat training, and brought the seals to life in a time when they weren't as well known as they are now. The Beriut seen at the end was one of the greatest action scenes of ever and was very innovative and creative.

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Summary: I love this movie
Review: This movie was great! It partly portrayed the life on the Navy SEALs. How accurate is it? I don't know but it made for a great movie. Two problems with the review. One, SEAL is always capitalized and two, the missiles are stingers, not nuclear hand held missiles. Minor mistake though. Want to learn more about the life of a SEAL, go to the library. The best are Richard Marcinko's Rogue Warrior books, which a movie will be based on soon! Great Movie, must see if you like the SEALs

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Summary: This movie is the best action i have seen in a long time
Review: this movie was really cool and I think that it protaded the life of a navy seal very good and that the one thing that is so cool about it is that it show missions gone bad missions gone very good and missions gone very catastrofe my faveriote part is when the leader shows the repoter all the traning that is requerd to do plus there is a sniper and in the begining the sniper ment the life and the death of the team also back then it was like the navy seals where really top secret but now they are well know in the world if you where to lock them up in the internet you can find some really neat stuff.