13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (2016)
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Critic Consensus: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a comparatively mature and restrained effort from Michael Bay, albeit one that can't quite boast the impact its fact-based story deserves.
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Cast
as Jack
as Rone
as Tanto
as Oz
as Glen 'Bub' Doherty
as The Chief
as Tig
as CIA Agent
as Sona Jillani
as DS Agent Dave Ubben
as Scott Wickland
as Brit Vaynor
as Boon
as Becky Silva
as Amahl
as CIA Agent
as GRS Wife
as Bandolier Militiaman
as Viper
as Delta 1
as Emily
as Defence Attache
as Chief's Assistant
as DS Agent Vincent
as Fareed's Wife
as Beverly
as CIA Agent
as CIA Operative
as Tripoli GRS Operator #1
as Neighbor
as F-16 Fighter Pilot #1
as Security Police Officer
as Sean Smith
as General Carter Ham
as DS Alec
as CIA Operative
as BBC News Anchor
as 17th Feb Militia
as CIA Agent
as Cleric
as Deputy Chief
as 17th Feb Militiaman
as CIA Staff
as Chef
as Security Police Officer
as Nerdy Computer CIA Staffer
as Sinister Man
as CIA Operative
as Libyan Guard
as Linguist
as Camo headwrap
as Attacker
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Critic Reviews for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
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The final word on this incident will require a more thoughtful filmmaker. But hopefully, that artist will possess at least half of Bay's punishing, peerless craft.
The movie is imperfect and overlong but it's never boring. And, although aspects of its factual accuracy can be called into question, it does a decent job of chronicling what happened that night.
Several critics have given 13 Hours a pass, citing Bay's skill at action engineering. It's his failure at everything else that makes this movie as hard to endure as it is impossible to believe. #helpme
[Bay] does well here what he always does well: He keeps the action at full throttle. This is also what he does so annoyingly: He always keeps things at full throttle.
[Bay] is hell on manly banter amid the explosions ("Just another Tuesday night in Benghazi"), and also moments carefully calculated to make you feel the horrors - and the heroics - of war. Emphasis on "calculated."
Bay's action sequences are as riveting and technically beautiful as ever, but his reductive worldview is also on display. "13 Hours" doesn't just lionize its American soldiers, it oozes disdain for everyone else.
Audience Reviews for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
Sure, in the beginning and end there is the usual "cool US boys" banter and family videos with a certain disdain for anyone who doesn't know how to shoot and kill. However, the long middle section of the events is high adrenaline action, both uncomfortable and engaging. Bay knows how to film and cut such scenes and they make for a very entertaining film. Whether this has much to do with what actually happened in Benghazi that night is for someone else to decide. Other director's like Bigelow would have made a much more political film, but as far as the action goes there is nothing to complain here.
Super Reviewer
A slow beginning to a rather action packed, tension filled ending! if you liked American Sniper and/or The Lone Survivor, then you'll enjoy this.
Super Reviewer
"13 Hours" is the kind of picture that harkens back to the Michael Bay of old; specifically the Michael Bay of "The Rock." His strength has always been highly polished action, and the surprise here isn't that his latest is an impressively mounted action film, but alas a rather coherent one as well.
Super Reviewer
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi Quotes
| Rone: | All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you. |
| Tanto: | Seriously guys. If the consulate ordered a pizza it would have been there by now. |
| Jack: | We get to go home. |
| Jack: | We get to go home. |
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