Reviews

• Action fans may well find Uncommon Valor enjoyably familiar, but for others it will smack of war movie dej a-vu, despite the new angle provided by its concern for American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam.

  Janet Maslin - The New York Times
  
  11 May 2013

• The basic idea of Uncommon Valor is so interesting that it's all they can do to make a routine formula movie out of it. But they do.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  11 May 2013

• Hackman's performance, beautiful photography by Stephen Burum and Ric Waite, and some effective action direction from Ted Kotcheff make this watchable, but the jingoist wish-fulfillment inherent in the material is ultimately disturbing.

  - TV Guide
  
  11 May 2013

• All of the top talent involved - especially Gene Hackman - is hardly needed to make Uncommon Valor what it is, a very common action picture.

  - Variety
  
  11 May 2013

• With Ted Kotcheff's hackneyed direction and Joe Gayton's cliche-ridden script, this version of "Missing" for the soldier of fortune set is one of the most reprehensible exploitation films of the year.

  - The Boston Globe
  
  11 May 2013