2016 · action · drama · war
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Directed by Michael Bay2h 24m2016
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.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
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