- Network: National Geographic Wild
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 4, 2012
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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.
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It's a decently made but hardly exceptional movie without any high wattage star power but with a few familiar faces.
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[A] workmanlike and occasionally hokey retelling of now-familiar events. [2 Nov 2012, p.64]
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Not great, not terrible--just your standard-issue TV movie about a well-known historic event.
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Seal Team Six won't sway undecided voters; it also won't entertain many, either.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The movie holds these men and women up as heroes, but it makes them rather bland cardboard cutouts.
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SEAL Team Six offers no new revelations, and the plot's factual background will be familiar to most viewers.
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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.
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In essence, SEAL Team Six plays like a slightly longer, much cheesier version of a Homeland episode.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 13
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Mixed: 6 out of 13
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Negative: 4 out of 13
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Feb 15, 2014