Navy Seals

Name: Navy Seals
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Released: July 20, 1990
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 38
Cast: Bill Paxton, Charlie Sheen, Cyril O'Reilly, Dennis Haysbert, Joanne Whalley

1990

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: July 20, 1990 | R

Starring: Bill Paxton, Charlie Sheen, Cyril O'Reilly, Dennis Haysbert, Joanne Whalley, Michael Biehn, Nicholas Kadi, Paul Sanchez, Rick Rossovich, Ronald G. Joseph

Summary: A battle-hardened Seal Team sets off on a mission to destroy a shipment of US-built Stinger missiles that have fallen into terrorist hands.

Director: Lewis Teague

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 113 min

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Jay Boyar

Navy Seals stands out among this summer's violence-oriented pictures as the only one that doesn't leave your brain feeling like mashed potatoes. There are plenty of exploding bombs in this picture, not to mention various other forms of destruction...But the action is orchestrated so sensitively that it's both aesthetically satisfying and emotionally resonant. There's a texture to the violence in Navy Seals that's completely absent in this summer's kaboom cartoons. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Nifty performances make this routine action flick better than it probably has a right to be. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn star in this visually engaging, fast-paced action film about an elite anti-terrorist unit of the US Navy. Unfortunately, an uneven script and undeveloped characters weaken the dramatic content of the story. Read full review

Empire Kim Newman

A very pompous version of the kind of nonsense Chuck Norris has been doing in far less embarrassing fashion for so many years. Read full review

Peter Rainer

The reactionary empty-headedness of this R-rated movie gets to you, spoiling whatever comic-strip enjoyment it might have had. In the “Rambo” movies, you’d have to be almost as much of a lunkhead as Rambo to take their “politics” seriously. But “Navy SEALS,” directed by Lewis Teague, isn’t scaled to be a cartoon; it’s more like a hypercharged military training film. Read full review

John Hartl

Unfortunately, he's working from a cliche-choked, insensitive script, written by Gary Goldman (``Big Trouble in Little China'') and Chuck Pfaffer (``Dark Man''), that makes a point of stirring up old prejudices. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Navy SEALs isn’t just the most stupidly didactic action movie since The Green Berets. It’s the dullest action movie since The Green Berets. Read full review

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Steven1981

Mar 23, 2020

NAVY SEALS is a 1990 action thriller which stars Michael Biehn, Charlie Sheen, Bill Paxton, Rick Rossovich, Dennis Haysbert and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer ... Navy Seals is about a team of elite seals who work for the navy. Their mission is to retrieve or destroy stinger missiles that have fallenNAVY SEALS is a 1990 action thriller which stars Michael Biehn, Charlie Sheen, Bill Paxton, Rick Rossovich, Dennis Haysbert and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer ... Navy Seals is about a team of elite seals who work for the navy. Their mission is to retrieve or destroy stinger missiles that have fallen into the wrong hands of terrorists. This film feels kind of racist to be honest but Lt. James Curran (Michael Biehn) is somewhat if entirely incharge in the seals group and Dale Hawkins (Sheen) and Biehn have their fallouts especially over a seal team member that died because Charlie Sheen didn't follow orders and his joker stupidity tactics. Charlie Sheen to a level of degree is probably a bit silly in Navy Seals and a bit offensive and ridiculous but sometimes in good ways but not always. The characters are fairly decent and likeable and the acting is okay. Navy Seals has some humour elements in the movie and some thermal imaging weapon used by Bill Paxton to take down some badguys and the action scenes are pretty entertaining and some chase scene involving a civilian car which the seal team steals and a terrorist tank chasing them and this chase happens I think in Lebanon. We have silly scenes like Charlie Sheen who's a navy seal stealing a bike and chasing some large vehicle down the road that's removed/stolen his car and he manages to catch up and get on the back of the vehicle and drive his car away and scenes of golf. Navy Seals is full of action, some romance, explosions, gunfire, dead bodies and your basic violence and bad language. Pretty decent film which is never really boring.… Expand

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