Filmmakers hurt movie with blurred lines

The military drama "Act of Valor" is a strange hybrid of authentic action and fake thrills -- and the biggest disservice the filmmakers do to their subject is blurring the line to the point where the real stuff looks the most phony.

Directors Mike "Mouse" McCoy and Scott Waugh follow a Navy SEAL unit on missions in support of the War on Terror, tracing a radical Chechen terrorist's plot to attack the United States. The mission goes from rescuing a captured CIA agent (Roselyn Sanchez) in Costa Rica to surveillance in Somalia to infiltrating illegal immigration tunnels on the Mexican border.

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