The attack remains a live political controversy in the US, one that is bound to resurface during the presidential contest - which just so happens to coincide with the film's January 2016 release.īay's movie seems destined to make the American public's confusion over what happened in Benghazi and what it means much worse. That real-life incident on which the movie is based, typically shorthanded as "Benghazi," is deadly serious: Four Americans died in violence that was part of Libya's larger, still-growing chaos. But I am not optimistic about this movie: not about its fealty to reality and, more to the point, not about its likely effect on the political debate it seems designed to land squarely in the middle of. Maybe it's unfair to prejudge 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi based just on this trailer.
This one is not about giant robots or fast-talking, street-wise cops, but rather about a real-life incident: the 2012 attacks on US diplomatic and intelligence facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Oh, dear, what a crime."īay has just released the trailer for his latest movie for teenage boys. Michael Bay, the man behind the Transformers movies and other poorly reviewed action flicks such as Bad Boys and Armageddon, once said of his own less-than-stellar reputation, "I make movies for teenage boys.