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With fast-paced editing, great cinematography, excellent cast choices, and Mike Bey's legendary pyrotechnics, we have a compelling look at a small group of "operators" who were too late to rescue Amb Stevens but ended up fighting for their own lives later.This film conveyed the "fog of war" perfectly with confusion, bad choices, and scarily not knowing who is really on your side. Chris Stevens loss is just one part of the action and we see no desecration of him as it was unknown to the operators during the timeline of the story.
This film manages to be as apolitical as possible by focusing on the individuals of the CIA team and not the ambassador's. I caught two sentences in the dialog that had implications without association. There is no political offenses within but the CIA jerk will certainly be remembered as the villain of Benghazi's death toll--a possible misdirection.
When I left my seat I glanced at my watch and was amazed at the time. This 144 minutes moves quickly with nary a moment to be bored. This is a "war film" and/or "brohood narrative" but not necessarily a historical account of Chris Stevens and the true motives of his death.
Edits: 01/15/16Follow Ups:
diplomatic compound or not but those scenes were crazy hard to follow wtf was going on. Much better, I thought, was the battle at the other compound later. Funny, it wasn't nearly as well made a movie as The Revenant but I'm more likely to see 13 Hours again before The Revenant. Also, kudos to Bay for making it apolitical.
P.S., I'd love to see what Ridley Scott could do with this material.
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***Also, kudos to Bay for making it apolitical.***Why? Why are we pretending here? Was it about space aliens landing on White House lawn?
I can fully understand the soldiers not willing to get involved in the politics, but isn't that the movie director's job to tell us the bigger story?
Edits: 01/19/16
...you mean the story 7 Congressional investigations have told?
Sometimes reality is all you get.
And it's just a movie.
Yes, kudos to Mr. Bay for taking on this imperative subject matter.
(4) Americans died in a tragic way under Obama's watch.
...more tragic than the thousands who died under the previous administration?
Yes, as a matter of fact.
but nothing seriously political outside of Benghazi itself. This is based on the stories the four survivors brought back and not the narrative of "what happened to Chris Stevens". For a Bey movie it was "tasteful".
I guess if he wanted to add another hour of exposition on the subject he could have. Had he made it political I think it would have detracted from the main story, the bravery of the men on the ground. The story was about them. Fairly well told, considering it was Bay telling it ;~)
Like I said, kudos to Bay for taking the path he took. I'm sure some documentary film maker will do a bang up job showing the utter incompetency of the chain of command in this tragedy.
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...events participants working on it, I suspect it is more accurate than "300 Spartans".If you had chance to watch their interviews and stories, they consciously stay away from politics, and always just concentrate on what exactly had transpired.
Edits: 01/16/16
It does not shed light on the "whys" of the Benghazi debacle. We see Stevens being hustled out of his safe room and he's gone! It's probably the best Bey yet.
This isn't a spoiler.
So Mr. Wonka, I'm to understand that you preferred this movie over The Revenant?
13 is not picture of the year for 2016. It's a compelling subject executed by a strong ensemble cast.
I guess it's irrevenant. (Yuk, yuk.)
But, The Revenant should be seen so you can judge the merit of 12 nominations.
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