Synopsis
When everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right.
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
2016 Directed by Michael Bay
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
John Krasinski James Badge Dale Dominic Fumusa Max Martini Pablo Schreiber Matt Letscher Alexia Barlier David Costabile David Denman Payman Maadi Toby Stephens Demetrius Grosse David Giuntoli Freddie Stroma Christopher Dingli David Furr Wrenn Schmidt Ivy George Julia Butters Ben Youcef Elektra Anastasi Liisa Evastina Steffi Thake Kerim Troeller Kenny Sheard Andrew Arrabito Davide Tucci Shane Rowe Gábor Bodis Show All…
Greg P. Russell Brandon Jones Dan O'Connell Chris Diebold Jeffrey J. Haboush Tim Walston John T. Cucci Erik Aadahl Ethan van der Ryn Gary Summers Matt Cavanaugh Joel Erickson Christopher Flick Veronica Li Mac Ruth
13 Hours - Geheimauftrag in Bengasi, 13 Hours, 13小時:班加西的秘密士兵, 危机13小时, 13 hodín - Tajní vojaci v Bengázi, 13 ore: Trupele secrete din Benghazi, 13 Ore. Trupele Secrete Din Benghazi, 13 godzin: Tajna misja w Benghazi, 13時間 ベンガジの秘密の兵士:2016, 13시간, 13 horas: Los soldados secretos de Bengasi, 13 Horas: Los soldados secretos de Bengasi, 13 óra: Bengázi titkos katonái, 13 Ώρες: Οι Μυστικοί Στρατιώτες Της Βεγγάζης, 13 Horas: Os Soldados Secretos de Benghazi, 13 שעות: החיילים הסודיים של בנגאזי, 13 hodin: Tajní vojáci z Benghází, 13 часов: Тайные солдаты Бенгази, 13 Saat: Bingazi'nin Gizli Askerleri, 13 Hores: Els soldats secrets de Bengasi, 13 Hours - The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 13 Godzin: Tajna misja w Benghazi, 13 heures: Le secret des soldats de Benghazi, 13 годин: Таємні воїни Бенгазі, 13 часа: Тайните войници на Бенгази, 13時間 ベンガジの秘密の兵士, 13 ชั่วโมง: ทหารลับแห่งเบนกาซี, 13 sati: Tajni vojnici Benghazija, 13 საათი: ბენგაზის საიდუმლო ჯარისკაცები, 13 valandų: Slaptieji Bengazio kariai, 13 stundas: Bengazi slepenie kareivji, 13 hodín: Tajní vojaci z Bengházi, ۱۳ ساعت: سربازان مخفی بنغازی, 13小時:班加西無名英雄, 13 Giờ: Lính Ngầm Benghazi, 13 сати: Тајни војници Бенгазија, 13 ore: soldații secreți din Benghazi
"I feel like I'm in a fuckin' horror movie."
Not particularly partisan but pretending this is apolitical is of course a total cop-out. It's as freighted with dubious depictions of otherness and insidious jingoism as you'd expect. It's also some of Bay's best action to date; leave it to this guy to make a tragic, controversial international incident an awesome Call of Duty speedrun. Spaces covered in long dollies and slow digital zooms. The hardware fetish is like catnip to me, too; see what twin .50cal KPV heavy machine guns do to a puny Toyota Camry or listen to the pleasing "konk" of an RPG bouncing off a pylon. Whole thing smells like cordite, I love it.
Michael Bay tackles Benghazi, in a story of 13 hours of pure Hell.
Why is it so hip to hate on Michael Bay? Are you jealous of his lifestyle? Did he steal your Centerfold girlfriend? Are you more GoBots than Transformers? Are you mad he usually puts the pop in popcorn movie action? Look, he's made some movies I don't wanna see. But, the fella is an entertainer, and he doesn't give a flying fuck what any of us think. He's laughing to the bank, and honestly, the joke is on us.
13 hours tells a story that's a battle cry for some, and a black eye for others. However, Bay goes politically neutral, and I applaud him for it.…
Bay’s Black Hawk Down with all the troubling imperialist depictions and POV inherent to these kinds of films but with a uniquely beautiful and disturbing digital formal chaos (courtesy of Michael Mann DP Dion Beebe) that frequently undermines it in favor of pure gory tech fetish nightmare haze that I think puts it even above that film for me. The way Beebe's camera captures motion, color & texture in this specific context has an interesting effect on the usual jingoisms and Bay-isms practically turning his kinetic, disorienting explosion of visuals into a gruesomely melded poetry of bullets, concrete, glass, sweat, dirt, fire, steel, blood, muzzles flashes, night vision, etc. If you liked the incredible shootout style in Mann's 2006 Miami Vice that mixes the…
Michael Bay made a good movie.... That's something to jump for joy about in itself. But Michael Bay made a good movie that was released in January? This has got to be the official sign of the apocalypse.
13 Hours is a pretty solid start to 2016. Let's all give Michael Bay a round of applause.
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The September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compounds in Benghazi may have occurred less than four years ago, but 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is the movie that Michael Bay has been waiting his entire life to make. He wanted to direct Black Hawk Down, but Ridley Scott got there first. (Bay has begrudgingly approved of the movie that resulted.) He then wanted to direct Lone Survivor, but Peter Berg snatched it out from under him. And just when it seemed like we’d never again strand American personnel in a FUBAR situation on the soil of a distant country (pause for bitter laughter), Bay was finally able to acquire the rights to one of recent history’s most violent wrongs.
Damning with faint praise I know, but this is easily my favorite Bay movie in 20 years. The whole "apolitical" thing is B.S. (if this movie is apolitical, so is Steve Bannon) but the technical side is just off the charts. If Bay could stop making souldead films about goddamn transforming robots for more than five minutes, he could be one of our great directors.
Strangers in a Strange Land
Bay goes ballistic and crafts a sweat-drenched nightmare brimming in paranoia and devastation.
R-rated Bay is ruthless. These gunfights are grim, nasty encounters. People are reduced to meat as bullets and RPGs turn them into gnarly practical effects.
The first half is a dread-filled fall into panic mode, and the film never lets up. The attempted rescue at the embassy is intense. A couple of soldiers trying to get to the Ambassador in time, but are surrounded by countless people who all speak a different language, and all carry guns. There’s no way to tell who’s an ally, an enemy, or just a civilian. It’s confusing and full of growing paranoia, it doesn’t help that everyone…
was john krasinski's 1 shirtless scene worth 2 hours and 24 minutes of war propaganda? well
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Michael Bay put his machismo directing style to good use in this thrilling look into the heroism shown during the dark hours of the 2012 Benghazi attack.
"Listen up ... None of you have to go ... But we are the only help they have ... Two vehicles, staged and ready. Let's go! Move! Move!"
Much like 'Black Hawk Down' from 2001, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi brought the depiction of urban warfare in the middle east to another level of realistic intensity, especially with those handheld scenes. The explosive action, sweeping cinematography, and comradery between this crew of contracted soldiers had me on the edge of my seat throughout.
Bay used…
Watching this, of concern to me was the unsympathetic McDonald's drive-thru worker showing no compassion to the obviously stressed woman who couldn't make a specific order because she was on the phone to her husband situated in war-torn Libya. America used to lead the world in customer service, what happened?