13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) poster
2016 · action · drama · war

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Directed by Michael Bay2h 24m2016
ElsewhereIMDb7.3180kRT52%Metacritic48TMDB7.34k
  • heavy
  • kinetic
  • extreme
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Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.

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An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

Our read · 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.

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You want a sustained siege thriller grounded in real-world military dread.

ends bittersweetit leaves you shakena slow buildgrips by minute 28attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegore

Skip it tonightWar-zone gunfire and prolonged combat stress will wreck your evening.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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