In 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, the heroes really are normal people with normal problems; tactical, skilled, and well armed, but normal. They have money problems, family issues, poor work/life balance, and asshole co-workers. The bad guys are nameless, faceless, and indistinguishable from just about everyone else around them. Which, honestly, makes them far more terrifying. The good guys can't win this fight. We know that. We all saw the news coverage. This movie makes it real, though, in a way the media could not.
War movies aren't my thing,but I was strangely eager to see this one. I expected muscle bound, ex-pro wrestler types with little to no acting skills. Boy, was I wrong. This movie was brought to the big screen in an effort to tell the story of what really happened that night and, at the end of the film, that's what I walked away with. War is real. There was no effort to glamorize or glorify. There were no political agendas. It was what it was, and this movie truly moved me. If you haven't seen it yet, please do.
