“Afternoons on 11” sits down with real Central Intelligence Agency team behind Benghazi movie
It’s tricky to talk about director Michael Bay.
The screenplay, written by Chuck Hogan from Boston Globe reporter Mitchell Zuckoff’s book (co-written by surviving members of the security team), offers the point of view of the veteran security detail hired by the Central Intelligence Agency to police and protect their compound.
House Republicans are investigating the Benghazi attacks.
The director has left his usual theatricality and love for computerized action at the door for “13 Hours”, creating a tense, immersive, and at times terrifying look at what it’s like when everyone seems against you and you have no idea who to trust. “I wish they had another 10 hours to tell all the side stories, but those are true American heroes, and it was captured on film, and that was really well done”, Chaffetz said. Because the events of Benghazi have become a political topic in Washington, the film has become part of that conversation.
The situation “on the ground” may have been ugly in Benghazi – lax security at the State Department compound; a surprise siege by Libyan insurgents on the anniversary of 9/11; a logy response from US diplomatic and military officials; the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens – but the heroism of these professional soldiers, “shadow warriors” as they call themselves, must be celebrated.
Now that I know Michael Bay can make movies this good, I’m even more annoyed at him now for all the bad ones.
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. Contradictions, I tell ya.
Specifically, that Clinton issued a “stand down” to the Central Intelligence Agency security team stationed at the diplomatic outpost, thus preventing a timely rescue that could have saved lives. Admittedly, there are a lot of things I didn’t know before the movie.
“Tomorrow morning a new movie will debut about the incredible bravery of the men fighting for their lives in Benghazi and the politicians that abandoned them”, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz said during his closing remarks of the Fox Business GOP debate on Thursday night. We get more of a gallows humor the guys use to break the tension for themselves as much as it does for us, and though the primary focus is on the pseudonymous Jack Silva played by John Krasinski, and Tyrone Woods played by James Badge Dale, 13 Hours has a great ensemble cast making it all work together.