Another soldier exploitation film that's just mediocre

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2016)

It was shot well, like you's expect a good Micheal Bay film to be shot. The first few minutes of the movie had signature Bay crane shots and angles that made me think a tank was about to transform into a giant robot.
Then the plot happens and the action begins. Bay is really good at making people look like heroes, like John Krasinski from the Office who plays one of the private security soldiers. I did like the cast as a whole. They had chemistry. All the heroic dramatic marks were hit on the spot with the lighting and the music.
However, I feel like I did not get the full accept of the tension that these solders must have felt for those 13 hours. Not much emotion was going on here beyond the stereotypical junk you see in all movies that celebrate the troops.
Bay would have done better just doing big flashy explosions and cool poses, but he played it down so that the movie can be taken seriously, but the seriousness of the movie is not strong enough to make this picture nothing more than a generic action movie.