On the night of September 11, 2012, while a new anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, a group of protesters gathered outside the embassy of the United States in the city of Benghazi in Libya was happening. Allegedly they wanted to protest an anti-Islamic American film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. And the assumption is that another of the theories is that it was a planned al Qaeda attack against the installation.
The truth is the security people believed that the consulate attacked them and opened fire, aggravating the whole situation.
This triggered a fierce attack and subsequent fire at the embassy. As a result of all this there were four dead: Ambassador Christopher Stevens; Sean Smith, a specialist in technology; and Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, two operating SEAL. How you get to that situation and what happened on that night is what it purports to have “13 Hours: The Secrets of Benghazi Soldiers” (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016).
The film located shortly after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi and the subsequent civil war that plunged the country into chaos. In this place comes Jack Silva (John Krasinski) to work as “contractor” in an annex to the CIA that there physically but not in official papers.
So it joined a group of six men of Special Operations formed by former Navy SEALs and operators of central intelligence, led by Tyrone Wood (James Badge Dale). Their tasks are almost routine and protection of the diplomatic staff, but when an attack occurs embassy decide to intervene, despite not having the authorization. What follows from here is the chronicle of a hellish night in which they must do everything possible to protect their countrymen, try to save their lives and that of their peers.
This film is based in the book “13 Hours: the Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi” (2014), the writer and journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff. And unfortunately it is another “jingoistic” exponent so characteristic of the films of Michael Bay good. It is as if the director will strive at every opportunity you have for someone in the government of his country granted a medal for his sense of loyalty or God knows what.
Beyond recognize their ability to make big action scenes, shots and explosions (always with the detail that reaches lulling the viewer at a time do not understand who shoots, where it does and against whom ), there’s a nonsense of the story.
His characters are loving family men with good feelings and possessing an extreme patriotism, which contradicts a little with what they are doing there. Recall: they are “contractors”, read mercenaries, paid by a government force to perform dirty work thanks to the training they received. That causes a lot of noise, like some dialogues that are truly pathetic.
A Bay is not interested in telling why the conflict, just as heroes show some examples of dubious morality. Is that, despite everything that can happen to them, always appears the same sentence: “What they went to a country that no one called?”. Some directors raised the question and managed to make excellent works; others were devoted to cheap propaganda salable only in their own country.
If you can unplug your brain and concentrate only on the action, have no doubts that may come to have a good time. If they want to think, forget it. This is the work of Michael Bay and that word is not part of their lexicon.
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