Director Bay: Benghazi movie steers clear of politics

For all the crash-and-burn in his movies, they are, in the end, monumentally vapid. “I just cut it short”, he said.

But several Republican lawmakers have said the movie details the negligence of the former secretary of State to respond to the attack adequately.

Paramount premiered the movie in Dallas on Tuesday night at a benefit for veterans in AT&T Stadium and to honor the contractors and those who died in the attacks.

Trump will pay for the showing of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi at 6 p.m. Friday at the Carmike Cobblestone 9 Theatre, Goertz said.

Hillary Clinton’s 20-point margin in Iowa over Democratic presidential nomination rival Bernie Sanders has shrunk to a statistical tie, she is trailing the Vermont U.S. senator in New Hampshire, and now one of her biggest nightmares has hit the silver screen all across America: “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi”.

– Yes, Michael Bay really made a Benghazi movie.

The film has all the hallmarks of its director’s signature style: slow shots of dialogue between characters contrast fast-paced action with explosions; a weak leader gets usurped when the “right thing to do” becomes apparent, even though it isn’t “by the book;” and what starts as a rescue turns out to be an epic battle for survival.

The officer in charge of the CIA’s base in Benghazi, Libya, on the night of the 2012 attack broke his silence in an interview with The Washington Post, in which he denied some of the high-profile claims from “13 Hours”, a new film centering on the attack. They say there’s no story about Benghazi. The film doesn’t mention Clinton, or President Obama by name but it apparently does make federal bureaucracy a bit of a villain, with officials preaching caution and protocol while the contractors want to rush in. “13 Hours” features a compelling story that will have you on the edge of your seat even though you already know the ending, and it will not disappoint. “No one ordered them to go”. From then on it’s a tense, gripping affair that left me quietly seething in anger watching these guys get hung out to dry by a government that couldn’t or wouldn’t send help.

Of course there’s the rest of the movie, which is where Bay always comes up a little short.

“No one will mistake this movie for a documentary”, Trapani added. “We had lost two fearless Americans on the roof at that facility”.

The movie centers on six Central Intelligence Agency security operators, played by John Krasinski (Jack Silva); James Badge Dale (Tyrone “Rone” Woods); Pablo Schreiber (Kris “Tanto” Paronto); David Denman (Dave “Boon” Denton); Dominic Fumusa (John “Tig” Tiegen); and Max Martini (Mark “Oz” Geist).

We appreciate it when readers and people quoted in articles or blog posts point out errors of fact or emphasis and will investigate all assertions. But at least for a solid 45 minutes, there’s something for everyone to marvel at in the middle of 13 Hours. Otherwise, “13 Hours” moves briskly, for the most part. While the action is the primary driving factor of the film, there is a clear level of emotion and sentiment as you feel for the men fighting over there and risking their lives for their country and other Americans.