SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden
National Geographic Wild | Release Date: November 4, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Denver PostJoanne OstrowNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a strange amalgam of behind-the-scenes imagining, video simulations, archival footage and patriotic odes to the military regarding a rather recent event. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a decently made but hardly exceptional movie without any high wattage star power but with a few familiar faces. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyRob BrunnerNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: [A] workmanlike and occasionally hokey retelling of now-familiar events. [2 Nov 2012, p.64]
67
NewsdayVerne GayNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: Not great, not terrible--just your standard-issue TV movie about a well-known historic event. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: Seal Team Six won't sway undecided voters; it also won't entertain many, either. Read full review
50
PopMattersCynthia FuchsNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: Intra-team melodrama doesn't distract from the film's focus so much as it illustrates it: again and again, the boys declare their need for payback. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: The filmmaking is at times derivative and heavy-handed, and the score is unrelenting and unbearable: an electronic thumpa-thumpa pounding that sounds like music to inject blood boosters by. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: SEAL Team Six, though inevitably exciting in its conclusion and touching at times, refuses to commit either way. This failure of nerve not only dooms the film as both docu--and drama but also contradicts its main theme. Read full review
50
RedEyeCurt WagnerNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: The movie holds these men and women up as heroes, but it makes them rather bland cardboard cutouts. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalSohrab AhmariNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: SEAL Team Six offers no new revelations, and the plot's factual background will be familiar to most viewers. Read full review
40
SalonWilla PaskinNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: SEAL Team Six, a shallow TV movie about the raid to kill Osama Bin Laden, stars a bevy of beefcakes in Navy SEAL costumes--and Barack Obama. Read full review
40
TimeJames PoniewozikNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: In essence, SEAL Team Six plays like a slightly longer, much cheesier version of a Homeland episode. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryNov 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: Fine actors like William Fichtner, Robert Knepper and Anson Mount lend some credibility, but almost all of it is paper-thin, relying on Paul Haslinger's pulsating score to maintain and heighten a sense of tension. Read full review
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