Review of The Secret Scripture (2017) by Addertude — 09 Feb 2016

This is easily one of the best films I have seen to date, even if Michael Bay was the director. Despite a handful of slight factual errors in the film, they're easily forgivable within the scope of the film. The cast really fit in to their roles well, and the heavy emotion strikes at two of the most appropriate (and shocking) times in the film. The set design was spectacular, the action was intense, and the pacing was great for building up to the pivotal moments of September 11th, 2012.

Not surprisingly, the media has severely downplayed this movie for the dramatized truth it depicted about what really happened in Libya as told by the surviving men of the Global Response Staff. This is evident by the critics' Metascore of only 48.

I saw it a few weeks ago and again today (at the time of this review) when I took my dad to see it. Screw everything you're looking for in a movie. From what I can tell by some of the other reviews, they were seeing the movie for the movie, and not for the true story it presented. If anyone who watches 13 Hours isn't pissed off at the Executive Branch by the end of the film, you probably should be at the fact that four Americans wound up dead because they were essentially left to rot in the Middle East. Such abandonment is one of the ultimate betrayals a government can commit upon its citizens in dangerous situations.