Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- John KrasinskiJack Silva
- James Badge DaleTyrone 'Rone' Woods
- Dominic FumusaJohn 'Tig' Tiegen
- Max MartiniMark 'Oz' Geist
- Pablo SchreiberKris 'Tanto' Paronto
- Matt LetscherChris Stevens
- Alexia BarlierSona Jillani
- David CostabileBob
- David DenmanDave 'Boon' Benton
- Payman MaadiAmahl
Recommendations
- 80
New York Daily News
Sure, Bay indulges some signature cinematic fetishes. But he shows restraint with the slowed-down, sexed-up shots. War is gritty here, not glamorous. Result: characters, stakes and emotions feel authentic — all the more so thanks to terrific actors including James Badge Dale and Pablo Schreiber as actual ex-military men and family men who battled terrorists. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
To use what, under the circumstances, is a far too convenient metaphor, Bay is interested in accelerating from zero to 100 as quickly as possible and then maintaining speed, rather than skillfully shifting gears and adjusting speeds based on curves, hills and road conditions. In this case, he gets you there, but you know the ride could have been a lot more varied and nuanced. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
There’s a real story of American heroism somewhere in here, but it’s diluted by Bay’s worst tendencies. - 58
The A.V. Club
Packed with misfiring grenade launchers, blue lens flares, and Mercedes armored cars, 13 Hours makes the best case for Bay as a toy-box aesthete with an abstract sense of motion and color—and the best case against him as an incoherent jingoism fetishist. - 58
The Playlist
Bay's overwrought tendencies simultaneously lead to the film's most compelling sequences of tense, bloody battle even as they forestall the more nuanced storytelling that would be crucial to truly unpacking the attacks. Bay may see the film as a cry of truth; muffled by his own predilections it's only a whisper. - 50
Austin Chronicle
A weird mix of pseudo-jingoism and Bay’s usual bombastic firepower, 13 Hours ends up being a straight-up war film without an actual war in it. - 50
Slant Magazine
Of course, when the action gets underway, Bay unleashes that flashy id of his, and all of his flaws as a titan of blockbuster filmmaking come to the fore. - 50
Variety
It’s a nail-biter and a head-scratcher rolled into one: The mind may initially race to keep up with logistics, but eventually one acknowledges the futility of trying to make sense of a situation that Bay himself hasn’t managed to clarify.
