13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIER'S OF BENGHAZI REVIEW - MICHAEL BAY SUCCEEDS IN KILLING ANOTHER FILM!!


13 Hours is very much business as usual for Bay; a barrage of noisy and largely indistinct action, most notable for an ADHD visual style that marries the silly viewpoint of a supercharged drone like a transformer for example with the editing rhythm of a Slipknot drum solo. I went into the film knowing almost nothing about the September 2012 attack on an American diplomatic compound in Libya and came out pretty much knowing even less. For the most part, Bay seemed to be aiming for the nihilism of Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, which effectively conveyed the chaos of its real-life subject matter.
Yet the chaos of 13 Hours has more to do with form than content, leaving you with the impression that it’s not story but Bay’s moviemaking that is just absolutely dire. The director claims that his film “doesn’t get political at all”, concentrating solely on “what happened on the ground”, which you can tell as he completely avoids exploring the realism of a politically sensitive subject and instead went for all out transformers type action, which just makes you think he has more love for robots than real life heroes.
Skype sessions with loved ones give our heroes thumbnail backstories (pregnant wives, missed kids, etc), but Bay is only interested in the machinery, lovingly reproducing the bomb’s-eye-view shot from Pearl Harbor, with hardware becoming the film’s only fully-rounded character.

Every bomb that went off or shell that got shed all you could hear was the sound effects of a transformer, the way he cuts scenes drives me mad as you can never know what is actually going on because the shots just flit about all over the place from one scene to another, he loves the over use of CGI and sound effects to the point where every film he makes is just the same, Michael bay is just an overaged kid with no sense of real taste.
If you can get past the not so great acting and the terrible sound effects with outrageous directing ( not good outrageous ) and crazed visual strokes, I guess the action is not so bad. Now I can see why every time a film has "A Michael Bay film" stamped on the front, it gets absolutely ridiculed and terrible reviews.
Even though bays directing gives the film no justice, you can't take anything away from the real life HEROES.
So therefore I rate this film 5/10 and the 5 goes to the real life heroes, Bay gets 1.5/10 for the film and that goes to just the action. What's your views on Bay?? Did you like the film?? Click HERE for trailer. 

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