Much better than expected

Rating: 9/10 (30 January 2016)

First off, I'm not used to Hollywood making a movie like this. Most of the media takes a strong side one way or the other. I thought this movie was fairly even handed. It had great action, some humor to break up the super intense scenes, and it does a good job of developing the main characters.
All that said...I'm military, I've been there and I felt they captured the flavor of the area, the action, the tension, and the humanity of both sides. The people of Bengasi aren't portrayed as evil terrorists; they're a total mixed bag of people like most of the Middle East. The majority of them are just trying to live their lives. The problem is...over there, you don't know who's on your side at any moment, sometimes people show up out of no where to help, sometimes people take off when you need them most. The only ones you can really count on are your own team. They nailed that.
I would have given this 10 Stars but they barely touched on the attempted cover up of what was really going...compared to what we found out a few months later. To be fair, the focus of the movie is really the guys with boot on the ground. To some up, I went to the movie with six of my buddies. Some military, some not. Some conservative, some more liberal, and some in the middle. We all really enjoyed the film.