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humor moments there is about three really badly placed Michael Bay jokes but that was it that was it people he was kept in line no okay there was one misogynistic joke but other than that it was actually on the level Michael Bay was trying to make a film with characters and the funny thing is too there's no old flyovers with the US Air Force so instead of giving his boner to the US Air Force which he usually does he gave it 100% to another thing though I'm gonna say this I don't know how much of it is in a sense of how much this film is relatable to the actual event someone told me if there's more than two explosions then it's already bullshit there was at least 30 this was ground fights this was purely from RPGs there was a mortar that was used at one point but most of this was all small arms fire there was a bomb and a bus though that went off that was hilarious and super awesome film has an intense feeling throughout even before the event starts when we were introduced to our characters as they come into the country we see that this constant level of distrust of who's who and who's a villain who's a target a lot of things that I liked especially in the films like the Hurt Locker where you couldn't tell who was who that is what I liked about this film basically Michael Bay made his own version of Black Hawk Down basically he even makes a reference one of the characters makes a reference about the entire Black Hawk Down incident that's what this movie is it's his Black Hawk Down so what do you want to know do you want to know if the action scenes are intense hell yes they are holy crap the intensity of them is insane the sound design is fantastic the filmmaking is really good when I say filmmaking I mean the production scale I mean the camera movement I mean everything that goes into making a scene intense Michael Bay once again proves that while he may not have much in here for characters or story he definitely can make a good action scene holy crap guys I am not kidding I think this is Michael Bay's best work in a long time these guys were a bit of an old gun-toting year America free caricature but they still had some elements to them the only thing that I would possibly say is that some of these elements are far too pushed there's a scene where one of the characters is talking about his wife and his kids and his kids are thinking at least what he thinks that why is dad going over there to fight for someone other country why is he going over there to die for someone else why does he going off to impossible going to die in a place that doesn't matter anything to him and the whole time you're just thinking that is another thing if you're expecting America propaganda crap just like I am right now you're gonna get it in this movie it is insane how much there's a scene where the Libyans are shooting at this American flag that's in the ambassadors area the embassy and it's all in slow motion and just see the flag going like I was laughing my goddamn ass off there's another scene where a guy just looks at them is like I'm proud we have Americans like you least to say this like as good as the action scenes are and as intense as the feelings are there are some stereotype characters not just talking about the soldier stereotypes but there's some stereotypes there's a stereotype dick there's a stereotype nerd there's a stereotype black guy I think they got the black guy from Ghostbusters in this movie when I say stereotype black guy I'm not talking about terribly racist stereotype black guy I'm talking about kind of Danny clever stereotype black guy but again this film did what it was supposed to do it was supposed to show the absolute incredible adversity that the soldiers fought faced and what they did in the face of overwhelming odds and how their basic commitment to keeping each other alive pushed them through this and whether or not it's completely bullshit at least from the film's point of view this film was entertaining it was enjoyable sure the characters were a bit sometimes but actually it's probably some of the deepest characters that Michael Bay has ever put the film I'm not kidding he actually had good characters and we're not talking like funny but terrible characters like in pain gain I actually mean good characters so in the end what do I think of 13 hours of secret soldiers of Benghazi well if I were to compare it I would think lone survivor well survivor was actually a really good January release that was a military biopic and I actually enjoyed it I enjoyed it so much I bought the blu-ray this one I don't know but I definitely can see that he was trying to get some black hot down and lone survivor vibes so in the end I'm gonna give 13 hours the secret soldiers of Benghazi 51 stars out of 50 because you just can't stop the freedom anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this review I actually was loving the idea of coming home and putting all this crap on when I came home to talk about it but no I'm actually being serious I did enjoy this film I think it was well made the sound design was great the gunfights were fantastic the characters while silly in a certain ways were good the majority main cast anyways there was a CIA dick but that's commonplace for these types of movies whether the film is accurate or not I don't know I'm not a person to call on that please don't get all ragey on me in the bottom if you're like whoa you're supporting this probably I enjoyed it but I understand it's American crap like the the level of America jacking off in this film was so insane there is so much that I love to joke about with this movie but the problem is I still really enjoyed it I might buy this film when it comes out I might read into the events before that however but either way it's a fun film and you guys at least the military boners of us all will enjoy this movie anyway guys that's all from me I'll see you later