Excellent and Fantastic

Rating: 10/10 (18 October 2016)

Teamwork was very evident through this movie. From the beginning the audience can easily pick up that the five soldiers of the group who were already in Syria are very low key and accepting of new teammates. Though the names are not often mentioned boldly, to get the effect of the one team vibe, if you listen carefully you can pick up most of the characters' names. The group is easily accepting and instantly treat new members like they have been part of the team for years. Even in the most serious of battles and injuries they throw the joking comments back and forth at each other. Perseverance was one of the many strong themes of this movie as well. It was added into the movie fantastically with one hundred percent perfection. The main characters of the movie blatantly show perseverance just by being in the military; they also show their perseverance by standing for not only the Ambassador but also America by staying and fighting with just six soldiers for hours when nobody else would fight with them. When everything went downhill they fought their hardest and had hope they would make it through to the end. Faith was one of the smaller themes but it still had a big part in the movie. I think faith was what tied in every other theme; like perseverance and teamwork, because in order to persevere one has to have faith things are going to turn out for the better and won't end up in ashes. One also needs to have faith in their team in order to work together and be as good of a team as the team of six is. I would rate 13 Hours a 5 of 5 because I thought the themes were tied in nicely with each other. Not only did the scriptwriters, producers, and directors do a good job of making them all tie in together, but the actors were amazing. They did an excellent job of adding these three themes into their acting and then making it also have an eccentric personality, making the audience forget they are not actually meeting the group in real life. I also liked that even though they are in a war- zone in the middle of a war, the filming crew and scriptwriters were very careful not to put in too many battle scenes and they added some lightheartedness during the times in the movie when there wasn't a battle scene. Overall, this movie is definitely one I would recommend to pretty much anyone. I think 13 Hours is the best movie I have seen that has such powerful example of some of the most important values; it will by far be the one to beat.