13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: January 15, 2016

7.0	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 315 Ratings

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micksmashAug 1, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just created an account on metacritic solely for the purpose of spreading awareness of how bad this movie is. It is now my lifes mission to save other people from the gross feeling of injustice that I felt after realizing I wasted 2.5hrs of my life watching this nightmare of a film. The fact this movie is meant to depict an actual event in which Americans lost their lives is insulting. It is impossible to take to take seriously as the drama and dialogue progressively gets worse as the movie goes on with every line becoming more and more over the top and ridiculous. The whole movie plays like a scene from the Bachelorette with the CIA agents coming off like a bunch of frat boys living in a luxurious villa with a swimming pool equipped with cheesy one liners, shallow backstories and firearms. Scenes are choppy and the timeline is hard to follow as they repeatedly splice in the time of day on the screen yet you are never really sure whether it's supposed to be day or night. At one point they're all facetiming their families at the same time making you think you're watching a commercial for Esurance or something with Krasinski narrating. The parody continues further when, amid gun battles, a facetiming scene takes place with Krasinskis wife having a meltdown in a Macdonalds drive-through that is actually hysterical despite it's intention to evoke serious and somber emotion. The movie does well to dumb down and desensitize viewers to the seriousness of this historic event. Not even worth mentioning in the same class of movies like Zero Dark Thirty, Black Hawk Down etc. Michael Bay should be ashamed of himself.… Expand

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c700May 24, 2016

You are an american redneck, who longs for more terrorist action movies with muslim men praying beside their AK-47s? Are you looking for bearded nationalistic and overly idealized heroes (like Chris Kyle in American Sniper)? Do you want themYou are an american redneck, who longs for more terrorist action movies with muslim men praying beside their AK-47s? Are you looking for bearded nationalistic and overly idealized heroes (like Chris Kyle in American Sniper)? Do you want them to talk about literally nothing of substance over the entire movie - so your brain doesn't hurt at the slightest attempt to retain an original thought?

Do you like stock footage of soldiers getting onto airplanes, soldiers talking to their stock photo families over iPads in what could be an advertisement on the TV? Do you like slow pan drone footage of buildings, iron rods, cars and brick walls exploding in unexplainable sparks? Do you like Americans, making derogatory comments about helpful arabs standing right next to them, do you generally like helpful foreigners - such as the translator in the movie - portrayed as cowardly, spineless, birdbrained and fatuitous to help you over your own inferiority complex? Well, then this movie is definitely for you!

Odds are, you are a right winged nationalist with little educational background and too much time on your hands, whining about those foreigners who keep stealing all the jobs. Well done. You are making your country proud!… Expand

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leSangeJun 6, 2016

Not even better than last 3 part of Call of Duty. But main idea the same, 8 peoples kills over 1000 Libyans. Also, Thanks CIA and U.S. gov, but we know truth about Libya, ISIS and how Democracy come to North Africa and made this countryNot even better than last 3 part of Call of Duty. But main idea the same, 8 peoples kills over 1000 Libyans. Also, Thanks CIA and U.S. gov, but we know truth about Libya, ISIS and how Democracy come to North Africa and made this country warring ruined ISIS stronghold.… Expand

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gracjanskiDec 18, 2020

US propaganda movie with cowboys, unsympathic characters and boring dialogues. The edit is fast only to create suspense, but the scenes are meaningless.

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alexandreaDec 1, 2021

It was well shot i will give it that, but it´s just american propaganda at it´s highest form.

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