He tells them, you're not CIA, you're hired help. He tells the skeptical contractors that there are people in the station who know better. That's pretty broad, but it's nothing next to the commando who reads aloud from Joseph Campbell's book, "The Hero's Journey." David Costabile, best known as Gale in "Breaking Bad," and the go-to actor for prissy bureaucrats, is the CIA base chief - the non-terrorist villain. Krasinski is the newly-arrived one who can't seem to quit war, and talks to his wife and daughters back home, and neglected to renew his life insurance policy. The lead actors - among them John Krasinski as Jack Silva, a pseudonym, James Badge Dale as Tyrone "Rone" Woods, and Pablo Schreiber as Chris "Tanto" Paronto - are muscled up and intense, though I confess I found them sometimes hard to distinguish, given their beards and similar acting styles and the jittery cinematography. Every word they utter is shown to be right. They find the security detail - two guys they make fun of for finicky mustaches as opposed to their own bushy beards - out of their depth. Before the attack, some of the contractors pay a visit to that residence and predict an attack would be a slaughter. presence in Libya, the movie never makes clear that the covert CIA base in this coastal, fortress-like city had little official connection to the ambassador's residence a mile away. Despite pre-credit titles explaining the U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who die in an attack on his residence. The film, like the book, is almost completely told from the vantage of the private security contractors - ex-military hired to work for the CIA, not for U.S. What I saw was a ham-handed but grueling and generally effective portrait of men forced into a near-impossible battle as a result of incompetence from on high - but no real accounting for that incompetence. You can't predict how a movie like this will be used in the political arena. Film critic David Edelstein has this review.ĭAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: In advance of its opening, Michael Bay's film of the memoir "13 Hours" was predicted to be red meat for anti-Hillary Clinton forces and a mortal blow to her supporters. The film stars John Krasinski and James Badge Dale and is directed by Michael Bay, who's best known for his "Transformers" series. The film is adapted from a 2014 book that Mitchell Zuckoff wrote with those contractors.
ambassador's residence in Benghazi, Libya. The new film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi" tells the story of what happened on the ground from the point of view of military contractors guarding the CIA base that was attacked on September 11, 2012, along with the U.S. officials responded to the attack in Benghazi is still controversial.
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