Navy Seals is a 1990 action film the film is now 19 years old the opening credits begin with this text  In 1962, President Kennedy, believing that the wars of the future would be low intensity conflicts such as guerrilla wars and acts of terrorism, created an elite special forces unit to meet the enemy on his own turf. Experts in sea,air and  land operations they are known as Navy Seals.   The film begins aboard the USS Forrestal an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, on the bridge the watch receives a mayday from a cargo ship claiming they have been attacked and are on fire and adrift.  The USS Forrestal deploys a Navy Sea King helicopter to rescue the passengers of the burning cargo ship only to get fired upon by a gunboat and the naval personnel aboard the Sea King captured.   Meanwhile a squad of Navy Seals  Hawkins (Charlie Sheen), Lieutenant Curran (Michael Biehn), Chief Billy Graham (Dennis Haysbert), Leary (Rick Rossovich), Rexer (Cyril O’Reilly), Dane/God (Bill Paxton) and Ramos (Paul Sanchez) are all recovering after they threw a bachelor party the night before for Graham (Haysbert) who is getting married that morning.  Graham is at the alter about to say his vows to his fiancee  (S Epatha Merkerson) when the ceremony is interrupted by the teams pagers bleeping they must leave immediately to go and rescue the stranded naval personnel.   In the Mediterranean the leader of the terrorists that shot at the Navy helicopter Ben Shaheed (Nicholas Kadi) orders the execution of the hostages.  One prisoner is executed on the spot and another is beaten up, then from nowhere the Seals burst in killing all terrorists in the room.  Hawkins responding to a suspicious noise breaks silence by shooting the hinges on a locked door when he encounters Shaheed in an adjoining room, inadvertently alerting the other terrorists. Shaheed evades capture by claiming to be an Egyptian sailor also being held by the terrorists but has his face video recorded by Ramos.  The Seals start to make their way to the extraction point but are cut off by more terrorists,  Hawkins and Graham are ordered to buy them sometime to extract in doing so they come across a shipment of Stinger missiles in possession of the terrorists.  Hawkins and Graham make it to the extraction point, at which time Hawkins attempts to return to the warehouse containing the missiles only to be ordered by Curran to proceed with extraction.  Once on board a aircraft carrier the Seal Team members are interrogated by Naval Intelligence who question their every move and Curran’s decision to leave the Stinger missiles behind.  At the Pentagon Shaheed is seen in a video interview with Claire Varrens (Joanne Whalley Kilmer) a journalist and author who is half Lebanese. The team take some well earned R&R in the form of playing golf with Curran brooding over the previous mission, Graham convinces his fiancee to try to finish the wedding again, regardless of the hazards of Grahams job.  The team receives their orders for the next mission the Stingers are located on board a merchant ship called The Latanya, off the coast of Syria.   The Seals deploy from a submerged submarine the USS Nyack and board The Latanya avoiding the Muslim pilgrims on the ship and neutralize two disguised gunmen, only to find out from the bomb disposal team that the missiles are nowhere to be found.  With Naval Intelligence unreliable Curran realizes that if he and his team have any hope of destroying the Stinger missiles he must solicitate Claire Varrens’s cooperation.  Curran gives her a tour of the Seals training facility and attempts to woo the journalist over an elegant dinner.  Claire is initially wary but changes her mind after watching the news that the Stingers have been used to shoot down a peace delegation in Lebanon.  Curran presents this new information to the Joint Chiefs who authorize the mission to kidnap the informant.  The Team parachutes in from twelve miles up and swims in, Curran leads several of the team in to kidnap the man with Hawkins left to lead the three men remaining in the street as backup.  While waiting for the other members to extract Ramos is pinned down by soldiers in the street, Hawkins disobeys Curran’s order to stay quiet and instigates a gunfight he succeeds in killing the soldiers but Graham is killed during the confrontation.  Upon their return Curran reluctantly informs Grahams fiancee of his death and a funeral with a 21 gun salute is held.  A few days later Curran is informed that the missiles have been located the Seals get deployed to Beirut, this time to meet a local resistance fighter so that they can locate the building containing the Stingers.  On route to the building Dane (Bill Paxton) is killed when setting up a sniping position, Curran and Hawkins recover his sniper rifle and leave Dane’s body in his hiding spot.  The resistance fighter leads them to an old school building in a heavily bombed area of the city where the Stingers are located.  Curran leads Leary and Rexer inside the building to plant explosives to destroy the missiles while Hawkins and Ramos maintain watch outside.  Dawn breaks Hawkins and Ramos are spotted by a local gunman, Hawkins kills him alerting the terrorists inside the building.  As the team extracts Curran gets shot in the abdomen and thigh, Curran manages to get to safety and orders Hawkins to destroy the building regardless of Curran’s being in the blast radius.  Hawkins disobeys and gives the detonator to Ramos and rescues Curran while the other Seals provide suppressing fire before the building is finally destroyed.  The team commandeer a civilian’s car and attempt to evacuate the city while evading pursuit by an enemy APC, then Rexer is killed by a stray bullet to the head causing them to crash.  Leary dazed and confused fires a recovered Stinger missile launcher and manages to destroy the APC, now on foot the four Seals escaping to the beach.  Although the Seals hit the water their pursuers fire machine guns and a RPG at the men.  Shaheed steals a boat from a local fisherman and follows the Seals across the water he spots Currans body floating in the sea.  He begins to pull Curran’s body from the water when he is attacked by the Seals and in an underwater fight, Hawkins kills Shaheed. The other Seals take out the remaining topside terrorists and destroy the small boat. As the movie closes the remaining members of the Team are seen adrift in the sea, hoping but not certain that the extraction submarine will return to take them home. Suddenly the submarine surfaces beneath them, Curran’s commander having persuaded the submarine captain to turn back and make one last sweep of the area.

Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen is an American actor his films include Red Dawn (1984), The Boys Next Door (1985), A Life in the Day (1986), Lucas (1986), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), The Wraith (1986), Platoon (1986), Wisdom (1986), Three for the Road (1987), No Man’s Land (1987), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), Eight Men Out (1988), Major League (1989), Tale of Two Sisters (1989), Courage Mountain (1990), Catchfire (1990), Navy Seals (1990), Men at Work (1990), Cadence (1990), The Rookie (1990), Hot Shots (1991), Beyond the Law (1992), National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 (1993), Hot Shots Part Deux (1993), Deadfall (1993), The Three Musketeers (1993), The Chase (1994), Major League II (1994), Terminal Velocity (1994), Frame by Frame (1996), The Arrival (1996), Shadow Conspiracy (1997), Loose Women (1997), Money Talks (1997), Under Pressure (1997), Postmortem (1998), A Letter from Death Row (1998), Free Money (1998), No Code of Conduct (1998), Five Aces (1999), Being John Malkovich (1999), Good Advice (2001), Deeper Than Deep (2003), Scary Movie 3 (2003), The Big Bounce (2004), Scary Movie 4 (2006), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) and Due Date (2010).  He has appeared in TV series such as Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories, Friends, Spin City, and Two and a Half Men.

Michael Biehn
Michael Biehn is an American actor his films include Coach (1978), Grease (1978), Hog Wild (1980), The Fan (1981), The Lords of Discipline (1983), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), Rampage (1987), The Seventh Sign (1988), Shallow Grave (1988), The Abyss (1989), Navy Seals (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), K2 (1991), Deadfall (1993), Tombstone (1993), In the Kingdom of the Blind (1995), Jade (1995), Crash (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), The Rock (1996), Dead Men Can’t Dance (1997), The Ride (1997), Susan’s Plan (1998), American Dragons (1998), Chain of Command (2000), Cherry Falls (2000), The Art of War (2000), Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001), Clockstoppers (2002), Borderline (2002), Havoc (2005), Dragon Squad (2005), The Insatiable (2007), You Are Here (2007), Grindhouse: Death Proof (2007), Grindhouse: Planet Terror (2007), They Wait (2007), Stiletto (2008), Saving Grace B Jones (2009), Psych 9 (2010), The Blood Bond (2010) and Bereavement (2010).   He has appeared in Tv series such as The Runaways, Hill Street Blues, The Magnificent Seven, Adventure Inc, Hawaii, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Criminal Minds.

Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley is an English actress her films include Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), Dance with a Stranger (1985), No Surrender (1985), The Good Father (1985), Willow (1988), To Kill a Priest (1988), Scandal (1989), Kill Me Again (1989), Navy Seals (1990), The Big Man (1990), Shattered (1991), Storyville (1992), The Secret Rapture (1993), Mother’s Boys (1994), A Good Man in Africa (1994), Trial by Jury (1994), The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997), A Texas Funeral (1999), The Guilty (2000), Breathtaking (2000), Virginia’s Run (2002), Before You Go (2002), The Californians (2005), Played (2006) and 44 Inch Chest (2009) and Golf in the Kingdom (2010).  She has appeared in TV series such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, Juliet Bravo, Bergerac, Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective and Criminal Minds.

Rick Rossovich
Rick Rossovich is an American actor his films include The Lords of Discipline (1983), Losin It (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), The Terminator (1984), Warning Sign (1985), Top Gun (1986), Let’s Get Harry (1986), The Morning After (1986), Roxanne (1987), Spellbinder (1988), Paint It Black (1989), Navy Seals (1990), Tropical Heat (1993), The Evil Inside Me (1993), New Crime City (1994), Future Shock (1994), Cover Me (1995), Truth or Consequences (1997), Black Scorpion II Aftershock (1997) and Artworks (2003).   He has appeared in TV series such as Fantasy Island, Tales from the Crypt, Mad About You, Touched by an Angel, Due South, ER and Murder She Wrote.

Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Haysbert is an American film and television actor he is probably best known as President David Palmer on the hit television series 24.  His films include Scoring (1979), Major League (1989), Navy Seals (1990), Mr Baseball (1992), Love Field (1992), Suture (1993), Major League II (1994), Heat (1995), Waiting to Exhale (1995), Insomnia (1996), Amanda (1996), Absolute Power (1997), Major League: Back to the Minors (1998), The Minus Man (1999), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Random Hearts (1999), What’s Cooking? (2000), Love & Basketball (2000), Far from Heaven (2002) and Jarhead (2005), Goodbye Bafana (2007), Breach (2007), Cessation (2008) and The Details (2010). He has appeared in TV series such as Laverne & Shirley, The Incredible Hulk, Galactica 1980, Quincy M.E, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The A Team, Dallas, Magnum, P.I, The Fall Guy, Knots Landing, Now and Again, 24 and The Unit.

S Epatha Merkerson
S Epatha Merkerson is an American actress her films include She’s Gotta Have It (1986), Loose Cannons (1990), Navy Seals (1990), Jacob’s Ladder (1990), Terminator 2 Judgment Day (1991), Random Hearts (1999), The Rising Place (2001), Radio (2003), Jersey Girl (2004), Black Snake Moan (2006), Slipstream (2007), The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (2009) and Mother and Child (2009).    She has appeared in TV series such as The Cosby Show, Here and Now, Frasier, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Law & Order Trial by Jury, The Closer and Law & Order.

Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton is an American actor and film director his films include Crazy Mama (1975), Fish Heads (1980), Stripes (1981), Taking Tiger Mountain (1983), The Lords of Discipline (1983), Pelko (1983), Mortuary (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), Impulse (1984), The Terminator (1984), Weird Science (1985), Commando (1985), Aliens (1986), Near Dark (1987), Pass the Ammo (1988), Riding Fast (1988), Slipstream (1989), Next of Kin (1989), Back to Back (1989), Brain Dead (1990), The Last of the Finest (1990), Navy Seals (1990), Predator 2 (1990), The Dark Backward (1991), One False Move (1992), The Vagrant (1992), Trespass (1992), Boxing Helena (1993), Indian Summer (1993), Monolith (1993), Tombstone (1993), Future Shock (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), The Last Supper (1995), Twister (1996), The Evening Star (1996), Traveller (1997), Titanic (1997), A Simple Plan (1998), Mighty Joe Young (1998), U-571 (2000), Vertical Limit (2000), Frailty (2000), Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002), Resistance (2003), Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (2003), Club Dread (2004), Thunderbirds (2004), Haven (2004) and The Good Life (2007).   His films as a director include Frailty (1999) and The Greatest Game Ever Played (2006).  He has appeared in TV series such as Miami Vice, Tales from the Crypt, Frasier and Big Love.

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