The story of the famed and much politized assault on two U.S. diplomatic/intelligence facilities in Benghazi, Libya back in 2012. The film deals little with the build up and underlying causes of the attack, nor the protracted fall out, political and otherwise afterword. Instead it focuses on the efforts of a small group of solders to protect the compounds, and later get themselves and others to safety.
The film stars James Badge Dale and John Krasinski, the latter early in his career rebrand from affable everyman to action hero, the future star of Primes 'Jack Ryan' series is playing a different government funded action man named Jack. This movie is unfortunately directed by Michael Bay, who makes this a largely ponderous action slog with uninteresting characters it was hard to care about. What Clint Eastwood of Kathryn Bigelow could have done this material would have been worth watching, this film however is not. *1/2
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