Act Of Valor (2012)

Family is not always related by blood or marriage.

A US Navy Seal platoon is called into action after a CIA drug and weapons investigation goes awry. Navy Intel suggests that the platoon’s intended package was trying to work a link between the CIA’s target: Christo, a narcotics /assault weapons dealer in Costa Rico and his childhood friend Abu Shabal, a Chechen terrorist working within South Eastern Asia. The Seal team’s mission is the personnel recovery of a kidnapped CIA agent.

Later, updated information obtained during the completion of the Seal team’s mission reveals that the CIA agent was about to uncover an even greater threat than drugs and heavy guns; Christo and Abu are working together to deploy an attack of mass death and devastation in America. Now the Seal team’s mission has been extended and they’ll have to split up to deactivate the imminent terrorist attack that is already underway just outside the United States of America.

In the end, an uncle passes a poem on from a hero father to his son while also clarifying the ultimate honor and sacrifice of a fallen American Soldier in his final act of valor to defend his family, country, wife and child.

This film is based on real acts of valor and inspired by true events.

Machine Gun Preacher (2011)

Based on the life of Sam Childers

Sam Childers (Gerard Butler) AKA Crazy Horse was a violent drug dealer from a biker gang, and he’s just been released from a Pennsylvania State prison; his wife Lynn (Michelle Monaghan) is waiting outside to take him home. Very few things have changed while he’s been away but he’s about to learn the main changes revolve around Lynn; she’s found Jesus and she wants Sam to find him too. Lynn has become a faithful follower at his mother’s church and tells him that she quit dancing at the stripper bar; she has a new job in a factory with good benefits. Sam is angered by this news and it gives him the perfect excuse to make an immediate return to the biker bar and, his first homecoming drug fix. From there it doesn’t take long to get right back into his old gang ways; until a violent run-in with a hitchhiker causes him to reevaluate the direction of his life. He accepts Jesus and gets baptized, but it takes an offer from a new friend after the devastation of a severe event for him to find a purpose; to help other people in need by using his building skills. Time passes, he’s been able to stay clean and turn his life around and after an inspirational sermon at the church by a pastor from Uganda; he begins to see a new purpose, a way to reach more people that may need his help even more than those right here at home, but he’ll have to go to Africa to do it. While there Sam meets Deng and Marco; Deng explains they are freedom fighters for SPLA (Sudanese People’s Liberation Army) they’re here to protect the area from rebels of the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army.) At night the LRA attack villages, killing the men, women and babies while they steal the older children to rebuild their army. This news doesn’t sit well with Sam; later he witnesses the carnage and destruction after an LRA raid, he helplessly watches while scores of newly orphaned children return home to find their families butchered and scattered about the charred remains of their village. Sam Childers can finally hear his own calling in the grieving cries of the children left behind. His calling leads him to build a new village with an orphanage and a church/school, and his will leads him to fight beside the SPLA against the LRA to save as many lost African children that he possibly can as The Machine Gun Preacher.

This is a true story about life changing events, the inconceivable pain and suffering of children at an intolerable level and one man's redemption to end their terror.   

Wrath Of The Titans (2012)

In this tale of ancient Greece, Zeus (Liam Neeson) tells the story of deception and lack of faith that lead up to the end of the age of gods.

In the beginning; Zeus and his brothers Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and Poseidon (Danny Huston) defeated their evil father Kronos and locked him and the other Titans away deep under Tartarus. Zeus became the supreme god, lord of the heavens; Poseidon became lord of the seas and Hades became lord of the underworld. Zeus proclaimed as law that, no god shall intervene with the fates of man unless the Titans escaped or were released; and from that point on together with their great powers they ruled the world. But centuries later, the once praised and adulated gods grow weak as humans have lost faith through unanswered prayers.

Now Zeus calls upon his demigod son Perseus (Sam Worthington) to help him save the world and all mankind. He explains the coming of calamity and that it will affect both gods and man alike; without prayer the gods will lose their powers and all their work will come undone. The damage has already begun as demons seep through the walls of Tartarus. If the gods lose all their powers they become mortal and can die, and then Kronos himself will escape and make chaos to bring about the end of the world. Perseus is unconvinced of his worth and more concerned about the safety of his own son Helius, so he sends Zeus away to find other gods for this war. Zeus leaves to meet with his brothers and son Ares (Edgar Ramirez), he wants to unite so they can rebuild the walls of Tartarus to keep Kronos and the other Titans contained. A brief scuffle breaks and more demons escape, this time attacking Perseus’s village; when the threat is gone, he takes his son with him to pray to Zeus. But Poseidon shows up battered instead and explains how he and Zeus have been deceived by Ares and Hades and that Perseus is the world’s only hope now; Zeus has been captured and is a prisoner of the underworld. Poseidon mumbles on for Perseus to find his demigod son Agenor (Toby Kebbell) who is with Queen Andromeda (Rosamund Pike), Agenor will take him to The Fallen One, (Hephaestus). The Fallen One will take them to the underworld where together Perseus and Agenor; two half gods can use all of their powers to free Zeus, save humanity and try to defeat Kronos.

This movie relates and is a distant offshoot from Clash of the Titans. Although it’s not quite as creative, still with thrilling action, adventure, drama and fantasy there isn't much more you could ask for.