Act of Valor (2012) Rating : 2 / 5 "An utter - - HOaaammmmmm"

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Act of Valor is a product of insulting the Battlefield and Call of Duty fans. Despite feeding us with tons of explosions, gun fighting and tremendous modern weapon, AoV is utterly a disappointment in terms of acting and characterization. So its kinda cool to jump from one location to another location just like COD Modern Warfare, apparently not without a good story-line.

"Have to admit it that the story-line is way out of the phase, putting me in boring face, yawning along the movie for God sake. "

The premise is simple and utterly specific, which is "Capturing the head of the terrorist to prevent another attack on American soil". It is so simple yet they failed to make it so intensely and excitingly complicated. Unlike Jack Bauer in 24 or Black Hawk Down or even Saving Private Ryan that gives you a dramatic conflict and sets you closer to the character which you feel some sort of connected with it at the end of the movie, Act of Valor is somewhat "Yes sir, yes sir, you are right sir, lets go with it sir" movie. It brings you straight to the end without any amazing twisting plot and dramatic conflict or even the emotional state of the lead character. They decided to put an actor with deep voice like the Terminator dude to impress us, unfortunately they make it even worse. It almost put me to sleep with the non-excitement, un-energetic voice that when you closed your eyes and heard it, you would think that the dude must be waking up for a Good-day Monday. 

The storyline is awkwardly told, Started with Voice Over telling us the courage, the honor, bravery and heroism and then suddenly bring you to Philippines and bring you back to the states for another voice over and bring you to all of the world with a very little intention to tell you what was really happening around there. Well, to be honest. The first scene sort of brought my expectation up that this movie was going to be great, but actually I was being lifted to enjoy a short throne and then being thrown to the river just to be brought by the current to the edge of waterfall and saved by a branch. 

Have to praise the action scenes, gun fight and explosion stuffs, surely it did make the movie a lot better. At least something is really entertaining. The power of the gun fight, car chasing, and close encounter did really give some hope for us that came to see the big things. The modern weapon and vehicle brought in and the satellite technology stuff that looks like COD:MW series. Fps fans have finally fulfill what they have been expecting ,at least part of it (Better something than nothing). 

Overall, the movie a good entertainment for youngster that value the action but not for hardcore moviegoers that more into story and character development. You know something is not that good if you saw people started to walk out minutes before the credit was shown. 

Green Zone (2010; Genre: War, Drama, Action) Rating: 4/5

It is a perfect choice casting Matt Damon as the main character in Green Zone. The movie is good and intense. Audiences are entertained with the action and twisting plot which then at the end leave audiences to talk about it.

Green Zone is about a WMD Soldier (Roy Miller; Matt Damon) who finds something is not right after various fail attempts of locating the Weapon Mass Destruction in Iraq after . Roy then digs deeper to look for the truth which then a stranger (Freddie;Khalid Abdalla) approaches him giving him an insights about the location of most wanted man called "Club of Jack" a.k.a Al-Rawi. Then, the allies split to two sides, THE CIA led by Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson) who want to reveal the truth behind the WMD missions and the delta force led by Clark Poundstone (Greg Kinnear) who is covering the truth. Struck by challenges from the delta force, Roy decides to continue revealing the truth by himself and his team with the help of Martin and Freddie. Roy then finally realises that in order to pursuit the truth, he needs to capture Al-Rawi ,who later turns out to be one of the "SPOILERS",alive.

The movie is well scripted and so do politically exciting. Green Zone has the element of action as well as the thriller component which cause audiences to keep guessing what is going on. Green zone is terrific entertainment during the weekends. Compare to the award winning The Hurt Locker, Green zone appeals more in story line and keeps the audiences asking for longer movie length. Receiving 7.6/10 in Imdb.com, this movie should not be missed.

14 Blades (2010; Genre: Drama Action War) Rating : 3.5 / 5

14 Blades is heavy movie for Movie Goers. Starring Donnie Yen as Qing Long "the main character in the movie" the movie will obviously entertain viewers with his good fighting choreograph like many other movies he starred, Some of them are IP Man and Flash Point. If you love how Donnie Yen execute the choreograph in his previous movie then you may like this movie. However, this movie is heavy in the story which means complicated.

14 Blades is about Chinese Warrior "JinYiWei" who are trained from young to execute mission such as assassination, escort or even slaying traitor. Qing Long is one the best of the JinYiWei troops, supplied with a box contains 14 Blades and each blade serves different purpose such as the 14th blade is to end his own life if he failed the mission. After received a task which he realises in the mission that it will cause the whole nation to fallen apart, he betrays and barely escapes. Qing Long then continue his journey to retrieve his dignity back and return the imperial seal which is stolen during the mission he abandoned.

The story is very complicated and for some you may find it quite boring. However, Donnie Yen fighting scene will surely wakes you up. Donnie Yen character is well developed, however, the element of the story "Romantic" which isn't well developed or can be said leaving viewer with a flesh of mangoes and thrown away the fruit inside it.

Received 6.0 in Imdb. This movie is not bad.

For me I would give 3.5 out of 5, for well developed Qing Long Character and good choreograph but not for the underdeveloped romantic story that the writer trying to add in.