There be spoilers.
In the beginning there was Navy SEALs with Charlie Sheen, were SEAL operators are shown as cowboys who blast their way around. Those were the Top Gun days and action movies were like this. Then Act of Valor set a new standard showing how professional these soldiers are. Calculating and precise. This movie is more like the first one. In Act of Valor they rescue a hostage in almost absolute silence so the enemies have no chance to execute her. In ST 8 they start of in a daylight raid with a Reaper drone blasting the hell out of the camp. Usually these are armed with 4 Hellfire missiles but in this movie it was a little more. Then the SEALS go in and it's almost embarrassing to see how a guy pins them down at a corner and all they have to do is walk around the building to kill the guy. Yet it takes them about 2 minutes to think of this? After a 10 minute shootout they manage to rescue the hostage but no SEAL team would go in hot like Rambo if they could avoid this and only shoot like hell once the hostage is safe. Also taking cover seems not the be a part of the ST 8 training. They stand in open terrain while the enemy is able to shoot from uphill. Also the totally unbelievable water-boat chase was cool back in the 80's but not anymore now. At the end one of them faces a whole city and hardly takes cover, like some one playing Battlefield with godmode on. He managed to shoot everyone with his pistol, yet no one hits him while he is walking around like a tourist. Like Arnie walks around in Commando through the end of the movie. The plot is over-complicated, acting is poor at best and as for tactics and realism, I guess they hired some 12 year old to handle those parts of the story. Only watch it when you are a 80's action fan. Else go watch Act of Valor again and skip this atrocity!
In the beginning there was Navy SEALs with Charlie Sheen, were SEAL operators are shown as cowboys who blast their way around. Those were the Top Gun days and action movies were like this. Then Act of Valor set a new standard showing how professional these soldiers are. Calculating and precise. This movie is more like the first one. In Act of Valor they rescue a hostage in almost absolute silence so the enemies have no chance to execute her. In ST 8 they start of in a daylight raid with a Reaper drone blasting the hell out of the camp. Usually these are armed with 4 Hellfire missiles but in this movie it was a little more. Then the SEALS go in and it's almost embarrassing to see how a guy pins them down at a corner and all they have to do is walk around the building to kill the guy. Yet it takes them about 2 minutes to think of this? After a 10 minute shootout they manage to rescue the hostage but no SEAL team would go in hot like Rambo if they could avoid this and only shoot like hell once the hostage is safe. Also taking cover seems not the be a part of the ST 8 training. They stand in open terrain while the enemy is able to shoot from uphill. Also the totally unbelievable water-boat chase was cool back in the 80's but not anymore now. At the end one of them faces a whole city and hardly takes cover, like some one playing Battlefield with godmode on. He managed to shoot everyone with his pistol, yet no one hits him while he is walking around like a tourist. Like Arnie walks around in Commando through the end of the movie. The plot is over-complicated, acting is poor at best and as for tactics and realism, I guess they hired some 12 year old to handle those parts of the story. Only watch it when you are a 80's action fan. Else go watch Act of Valor again and skip this atrocity!