'Remove all my clothes. Check for bleeds.' - badly wounded mercenary

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2016)

I watched this on DVD from my public library, my wife didn't watch it.
The Benghazi attacks have been in the news the past year because the partisan Republicans have nothing better to do than conduct witch hunt after witch hunt, finding nothing else but what had already been reported in the various investigations. It is a shame that they chose to politicize this.
The movie is good but long, in many respects just another "war is hell" movie. One can probably get all they need by watching the first 45 minutes then the last 15 minutes right before the credits, essentially turning a 145 minute movie into a 60 minute movie.
The first 45 minutes sets the stage, showing how dangerous a place Benghazi is, and how the CIA and their contract mercenaries operate. On September 11th, 2012, most in the compound are having a leisurely day, several of them talking back home via Skype with family. Then in the early evening all hell breaks loose as terrorists, angry at the USA, storm the compound. One of the dead was the Ambassador.
This is a very serious act in terms of USA - Libya relations, it is commonly accepted that Ambassadors and their staff are safe, but the Libyan government simply did not have the system in place to protect them. The country quickly apologized and made it clear that terrorists were responsible.
The last 15 minutes shows the fighting ending and the evacuation of the survivors and the dead. Again, war is hell, no matter if it is against a country or against terrorists.