Movie Review: '13 Hours,' A Great Movie and an Enormous, Enormous Problem for Hillary

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13 Hours is, doubtless, the best film of Michael Bay's career. It's also an objectively good movie.

Let me get to the politics first. The film is not blatantly political. Do not doubt, however, that it does not have an overt political meaning. It's overt -- just not in-your-face.

The film is filled with the heroes wondering "When is someone coming to help us?"

There are shots of planes lying dormant while Americans are being shot to pieces.

There is an exchange where one soldier (actually, ex-soldiers working for the CIA called G.S.R.'s) says to the other, "I just saw on the news, they're saying this is because of a protest."

The other says: "I didn't see any protest."

And neither does the filmgoer-- there is no protest. There is simply a coordinated attack which starts out of nowhere. It's obvious what this is from the start; there is no "fog of war," at least not about what started this...

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Plus, Manohla Dargis has the high-brow cultural review at the New York Times, ignoring the politics but confirming that this is a major film, and director Bay's a chest-pounding patriot. See, "The NYT review of '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi'."