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By Rolando Gallego (41) for EscribiendoCine (248) on 26 Feb 2016

A cinematic experience based on a true story; it relentlessly entertains, but it's ideologically questionable. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By Stephen Romei (236) for The Australian (781) on 26 Feb 2016

If you are looking for an immersive action thriller, this will do the trick…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 26 Feb 2016

Taking a break from his Transformer showreels, director Michael Bay mounts a frenetic, exciting, realistic recreation of the 2012 battle in…

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By Jake Wilson (570) for Sydney Morning Herald (1,256) on 25 Feb 2016

Bay certainly has a style of his own, albeit one that again harks back to the 1980s -- an even more cartoonish variant on the music-video bombast…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Leigh Paatsch (1,103) for Herald Sun (Australia) (1,081) on 24 Feb 2016

The straight route taken through this true story of dual attacks on US diplomatic and intelligence interests in Libya -- and the controversial…

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By Martin Roberts (187) for Fan The Fire (489) on 24 Feb 2016

Michael Bay may well have intended to make a film that simply celebrates the heroism of the US soldiers it depicts, and to an extent he has…

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By Mikel Zorrilla (231) for Espinof (390) on 24 Feb 2016

13 Hours is a pretty enjoyable film. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Andrew L. Urban (972) for Urban Cinefile (2,850) on 22 Feb 2016

The challenge for Michael Bay was to make a compelling drama from a story whose ending is neither Hollywood-happy nor unknown…

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By Michael Snydel (83) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Feb 2016

For better or worse, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is the purest distillation of Michael Bay's cinematic voice…

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By Adrian Mack (57) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 18 Feb 2016

This film is actively evil, but only by degrees…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 05 Feb 2016

Not the subtlest director working in Hollywood, Michael Bay brings his surging machismo to this retelling of the notorious attack on an American…

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By Alison Gillmor (124) for Winnipeg Free Press (342) on 05 Feb 2016

The story doesn't work as popcorn entertainment or as serious docudrama, and 13 Hours often feels conflicted and confused (something we never…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 05 Feb 2016

Tense and riveting, here's the movie some of us never knew Michael Bay had in him-the action, when it starts, is paradoxically both chaotic and clear…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 04 Feb 2016

It's a fine story as far as it goes, but the ostensible bad guys are as two-dimensional as ducks at a shooting gallery, and even the good guys…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 03 Feb 2016

The movie celebrates soldiers' survival, their ingenuity and heroism, their efforts to save one another and to do what's right in the world…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 02 Feb 2016

Michael Bay blows up stuff, unleashes massive firepower and concludes not much of anything in this jingoistic mess of a movie…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Tom Meek (408) for Cambridge Day (227) on 02 Feb 2016

What Bay and Hogan have done here is to sidestep the politics of naming names and, in honoring the heroics of six brave men, have subtly painted…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for Indie London (156) on 01 Feb 2016

Overall, 13 Hours does rather showcase the good, the bad and the ugly of Michael Bay…

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By Henry Fitzherbert (699) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 31 Jan 2016

A sombre military action film that steers clear, at least in Bay terms, of stoking up unwarranted patriotism or exploiting the scenario for…

Review of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 31 Jan 2016

[Michael Bay's] here to remind you about the primacy of American life…

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