<P> The film was a 2012 Teen Choice Awards nominee for Choice Action Movie . </P> <P> On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 24% based on 131 reviews, with an average rating of 4.5 / 10 . The site's critical consensus reads, "It's undeniably reverent of the real - life heroes in its cast, but Act of Valor lets them down with a clichéd script, stilted acting, and a jingoistic attitude that ignores the complexities of war ." Metacritic assigned the film an average score of 40 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences on CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A", on an A+ to F scale . </P> <P> The film opened at #1 at the box office, earning $24.5 million in its opening weekend from 3,039 theaters for an average of $8,054 per theater . </P> <P> Many reviews, both positive and negative, expressed praise for the action sequences while criticizing the plot and acting . Claudia Puig from USA Today, for example, said the action in the film is "breathtaking," but gave the film an overall negative review, in which she wrote that "the soldiers' awkward line readings are glaring enough to distract from the potency of the story ." Similarly, Amy Biancolli from the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Act of Valor is intended to wow audiences with high - test action while planting a giant wet kiss on the smacker of the U.S. military--and it scores at both tasks," but that, ultimately, "the film gets snagged by its own narrative convention ." Michael Rechtshaffen from The Hollywood Reporter had a similar opinion, stating, "Although the film has its undeniably immersive, convincing moments, the merging of dramatic re-creations and on - camera' performances' proves less seamlessly executed than those masterfully coordinated land, sea and air missions ." </P>

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