Bay Restrained

Rating: 8/10 (2 June 2017)

(Flash Review)
Compared with the indecipherable action of many of Bay's movies, this wasn't over the top..for him. He took a more factual and documentary angle with this film about the tragedy in Benghazi. And it really didn't take political stance. Never was Hilary's name mentioned nor her title. Only that additional security or reinforcements were requested several times and ignored. The movie was more about the soldiers and how they handled each tense situation. Of course it had the tell- tale scenes of showing soldiers talking or thinking about their families before battle scenes to ratchet up the emotions. It could have been stronger if more backstory was there for why there was so much tension with Lybia to begin with and why was the embassy continually asking for increased security and defense. For a straight-shootin' modern war/battle movie, it was very exciting and enjoyable. It even showed actual footage of the locals apologizing for what happened to our embassy at the end.