"Still no Americans."
Finally making his own Black Hawk Down, Michael Bay also happened to make a spiritual-successor to The Rock - in fact, General Hummel would surely have lost his shit over Benghazi. 13 Hours is essentially the opening-credits sequence of Bay's '96 classic at feature-length. And it is glorious, perhaps the finest display of Bay’s talents yet.
Bayghazi illustrates the haze of American foreign-policy through Bay and cinematographer Dion Beebe's crisp digital-images: the "Who are you?!" armored-car chase,…