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13 Hours is based on the real life events focusing on Six members of the security team to defend the American diplomatic U.S. Ambassador in Benghazi. What I liked about this movie is all the actors performance perfectly portrayed their own role and it almost looks realistic to feel the character depth while talking about visuals looks great and all action sequences were great realistic with also done perfectly camerawork and especially sound design and bgm of this movie is really done perfect and especially in the ending scene is totally emotional feeling raw, realism and hard-hitting. Overall 13 Hours is the most intense and realistic military-war movie I've seen it has a wonderful cast with a great sound and camera work in an authentic way.

4December 23, 2024Full Review →

a review by Evan Landon When I was a kid, way before I got into science fiction or horror, I was really big into Tom Clancy and Richard Marcinko books. Of course, all of the kids these days have first-person shooters like Call of Duty or Overwatch, so they don't really get into books when they can vitrually live it out over a gaming console. While there are some benefits to that, it kind of dullens their minds. That being said, just because they might be interested in the subject, the majority of them would never think to even pick up a book about it. However, they would watch a movie like this. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi is a 2014 historical book based on the September 11th, 2012 attack on an American consulate in Libya. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Zuckoff (I hope I said that right), along with the security team members involved in the attack. He also wrote a historical book about Shangri-La that looks pretty decent, but let's not get too far off topic here. Directed by Michael Bay, this definitely carries the same kind of feel that “Bad Boys” or “The Rock” has, but this one almost gives a hallmark to such films as Ridley Scott's “Black Hawk Down”, which has the same sort of gravitas that it even speaks of it twice. John Krasinski continues to be a formidable force as a leading actor in this one, much more in movies like “A Quiet Place” and less like the American version of “The Office” where he played a sappy, sad sack in love. That is some good range, actually. To be fair, the reactions to this movie when it came out was more for the overall theme of the novel itself and the glorification of covert black ops in the middle east. It is easily thrown into the same soup as “Lone Survivor” or “No Easy Day” being a factual book conveyed by the soldiers themselves trough the use of a journalist. In movies like this, you barely get a chance to get to know the characters, but that really is par for the course in these types. As a person who loves horror movies, these are the ones that really dig deeply into the soul, as you are seeing the horrors of man directly in front of you. It is very, very different when you realize what the true menace of warfare and fear is in the certain face of doom that no thing can prepare you for. I could not take my eyes of it once it started. That is saying something. 4 out of 5

4May 7, 2024Full Review →

Un grupo de operadores de seguridad privada lucha por defender un puesto diplomático de la CIA en Libia durante un ataque terrorista de 13 horas. Basada en hechos reales. En los puntos positivos tenemos las secuencias de acción intensas y bien coreografiadas. Existe una tensión muy palpable durante los tramos de combate nocturno. La química de los soldados del grupo élite incluyendo a John Krasinski es excelente por eso brillan en pantalla. En los puntos negativos tenemos que su duración se siente muy larga, pese a la premisa de tiempo real. A pesar de la química del equipo de élite los personajes son poco desarrollados fuera del contexto militar. 13 Hours cumple como thriller bélico de acción, pero le falta profundidad dramática para trascender el género. Bay prioriza el espectáculo sobre la construcción de personajes, dejando una experiencia entretenida pero olvidable.

3August 17, 2026Full Review →

Movie Info

Synopsis
During an attack on a U.S. compound in Libya a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Director
Michael Bay
Rating
3.8
Genre
Action, Drama, War
Original
Language
English, Arabic
Release Date
January 13, 2016

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