The controversy surrounding the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya is well-documented. It still reappears with gusto in the news cycle even today, with the most recent chapter being the report that new findings have been discovered in then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal emails regarding security and other pertinent details.
Director Michael Bay chimes in too now, and with a feature-length Hollywood film (starring Jim from The Office!) depicting (albeit with a grain of salt) his take on the attack. It’s title? 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
Check out the trailer for it here:
What did you think? Did you like it? Or did you not?
If you didn’t, you might side with Vox’s Max Fisher, who had this to say about in a recently published piece on the DC-based news website:
… it appears that Bay’s movie will attempt to squeeze and contort the painful events of Benghazi into a neat and emotionally satisfying narrative: Brave American military heroes must overcome cowardly suits and shoot a bunch of bad guys so that they may save the day. That should sound familiar; it’s one of Hollywood’s half-dozen or so standard cookie-cutter action movie plot lines.