Costly Fail On Hilary's Watch

Rating: 9/10 (28 May 2016)

You know what's funny? Kids are still kids and they'll be so in the biggest stank hole on earth. You see this in Benghazi, a particularly stinky hole. Strange as it seems there's some people attracted to shitty patches of earth. It could be the pay is good, or it could be it next to the wild west (when it was really wild) it's just as wild (i.e. bad). So it isn't strange a certain kind of a ex-military guy might end up in such a place. Now, if you wanted another slice of danger, just for kicks, you might end up under the overall command of a CIA director who thinks he can use this job as his last "easy out" before retirement. What this means, largely, is to ignore all the real threats as much as possible. Stay real peaceful while still conducting some "official" business. That'd be good if the locals weren't a mishmash of killers armed with the spoils of Khaddafi's military weapon's cache. Sounds like a lethal pro1blem ignored until it can no longer, simply, be ignored. Never underestimate a clueless leader who has little pull in the agency he works for, let alone the needed, vastly more powerful, military.
This is a great movie in the mode of Blackhawk Down, just more messed up if you can believe. Best line of the entire ride, "OK We're officially lost neither Google or Siri know where the F you are". This puts the cluster in perspective as in boots on the ground whose own intelligence is reduced to common AI phone apps. And this debacle at Benghazi is like a giant compressed big-ass cluster. I think no matter how accurate the movie is it speaks volumes about how the most sophisticated nation with , supposedly, all the right ambitions can get caught totally off-guard. Made to look totally inept. And worse, oblivious of putting it's people open for slaughter. This is occurring as the stock holders for such as Lockheed are racking up dividends yet there's not a one of the glorious war-birds to so much as strike fear in the enemies hearts.. Get it? There is a giant disconnect in our ambitions and actions. It has a huge cost and at the top the cost is human lives
This movie is a must see.. Michael Bay truly delivers an important blue chip film. If one gets nothing other than a most uneasy seat of the pants wetting ride, then you're a block head as there is so much more. This is entertainment with a message. How you use it is up to you, but unless you're made of stone you will be incensed along with being glued to the story. It's not worth saying so and so was great in their role, because the only thing that matters is if the viewers wake up and demand better. How many films can you say that about?