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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

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Directed by Michael Bay

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos. From TMDB

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is a 2016 action war thriller film, directed by Michael Bay, starring John Krasinski, James Badge Dale and Dominic Fumusa.

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  • Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Omg this Michael bay quote When reached by Deadline for comment, Bay said: “I’ve had an amazing partnership over my 30-year career working with the Department of War and amazing U.S. military members. In my film 13 Hours, no rescue force answered the call for help.…

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  • Coinman of the Month @meetzow.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2026

    Today marks 10 years from when the Chapo Trap House crew first appeared together as a group on a guest episode of Street Fight Radio with @murderxbryan.bsky.social and Brett Payne to review the movie "13 Hours" They'd start their own podcast less than a month later www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZELi...

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  • Fiz @fiztig.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2025

    It’s like watching 13 Hours and pretending the US is Benghazi. These men need to be publicly named and shamed. They are not stars of their own little 2010s war movie. They’re Brad and Todd and their families should be ashamed of them. Their communities should shun them and call them traitors.

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  • Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Interesting take on this from the ArsTechnica forums through the lens of 13 Hours, a movie I haven't seen:

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  • The A.V. Club @avclub.comBluesky · May 21, 2026

    The 13 Hours director is already developing a film based on an April 2026 rescue mission of two downed airmen in Iran.

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  • Stone Butch Blue Velvet @jennyllello.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    this is the funniest thing to happen to a Debate & Discussion subforum mod of somethingawful since one of them died in benghazi and got the most ignimonious sendoff in the jerry bruckheimer film adaptation 13 Hours with hillary clinton elegizing his gaming habits with visible scorn on her face.

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  • The so-called Glucose Gamer @nekoarc170.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    As much as I am a Motokonoko (fan of Major Motoko Kusanagi), her ideal film would probably be 13 Hours but all the characters are lesbians

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  • Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.comBluesky · Sep 16, 2024

    Michael Bay favorite is 13 Hours, proof he can make a good movie when he wants he just always chooses not to Least favorite is Transformers just all Transformers it's all one big fourteen hour nightmare

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  • Christian A. Dumais @cadumais.comBluesky · May 28, 2024

    Rewatched 13 HOURS. That movie is barely 1/10th the movie 127 HOURS is.

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  • SW🍜❤️💚 🇲🇽 @realswofficial.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    Oh this is gonna be like his 13 Hours movie huh?

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  • Scott A. MacKenzie @5thborderstate.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    We should do 13 Hours someday. I love that movie. #hatm Or as I call it, Jim Halpert goes to war.

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  • Invanz @invanz.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    He already did that right wing pandering 13 Hours of Benghazi fantasy, this will be no different...I don't think Michael Bay cares what the actual movie is as long as he gets to blow stuff up

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  • Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2026

    If I was a podcast producer I'd create a series breaking down the films of 2016 month-by-month and how they reflected society at that moment. We would start in January with Michael Bay's Benghazi movie 13 Hours and Dirty Grandpa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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  • Aaron Kablack @kablackquois.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 24, 2025

    When he did the Benghazi movie 13 Hours in 2016. He started seeking roles that let him play military/intelligence. Coincidentally not long after his wife got shredded for Edge of Tomorrow. I actually have a script based on the idea that a-list actors would make great secret agents.

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  • Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.comBluesky · Sep 12, 2024

    I disagree, I think both are making EXACTLY the films they want to make. They just ... This is what they want to make. Cameron too. They just make movies I think are bad, but they have power and clearly want to make these, and do. Michael Bay proved with 13 Hours he can make an incredible movie.

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  • Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.comBluesky · Sep 8, 2024

    Michael Bay proved he could actually make a good movie with 13 Hours... The other way is harder because I tend to really like most directors.

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  • Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.comBluesky · Jul 26, 2024

    I genuinely think 13 Hours is a great movie (I say this not liking its subject matter or like really anything about it from a cultural standpoint) and proves he can really really do it. I'd love to see something from him where he wants to "do it right" but he may never be in that mood.

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  • The Dark Rattler @thedarkrattler.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    This will be just like his other movie,13 Hours. Conservatives will claim it tells "the truth" while it doesn't tell anything at all. And lots of explosions.

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  • Pod Casty For Me @podcastyforme.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2026

    🇱🇾NEW PREMIUM EP🇱🇾 By listener demand, we're headed to Libya for 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI to provide all the context the film does not. Intervention, which Libyans count as casualties, Hillary, OffiCe JIm's Abs, and more. Just $5/month! Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2025

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(Australia) for AU$4.99 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini Genre: (Action) www.rottentomatoes.com/m/13_hours_t...

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  • Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    One tiny detail about how the right wing is systematically better at propaganda: "13 Hours" — the Benghazi propaganda film, and Michael Bay's worst and least-profitable film — has been promoted front and center on Amazon Prime for 9 years. Nobody has ever had to pay to see this film. It's free!

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  • Peach Fan Media @peachfanmedia.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Michael Bay, 2016; Paramount) - 8/10 Really hard to believe that Michael Bay made his strongly powerful war movie that involves honest and brutal depiction of the September 2012 battle

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  • Fiz @fiztig.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    Hegseth wants the military to be full of men who look and sound like the soldier characters in the film “13 Hours”. Not like the actual contractors who were involved in Benghazi, he wants his military to be like the actors. He is a juvenile fool.

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  • Charles Bruce @the8thcurse.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    I think THE ROCK is the only one of his early films I actually like. As I mentioned in another post I think some of the later Transformer films are fun but his best movie is probably his most restrained 13 HOURS.

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  • 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    I'm just not into that movie. It's a cartoon. But, aside from a couple of goofy bits of dialogue in only one or two scenes, "13 Hours" is a really underrated film. If only Bay could be sat on and restrained from putting dopey stuff into his movies.

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  • Midwest Film Journal @midwestfilmjournal.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    Michael Bay's 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI hit theatres on this day 10 years ago. Find Nick Rogers' (nickrogers.bsky.social) original review of the film below. midwestfilmjournal.com/2016/01/14/1...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2025

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(US) for $4.99 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini Genre: (Action) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/13_hours_t...

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(Germany) for €3.99 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini Genre: (Action) www.rottentomatoes.com/m/13_hours_t...

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  • 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    I'd say "13 Hours" is Bay's best movie. But "The Island" is a solid second place. And definitely more fun to watch.

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(Germany) for €3.99 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini Genre: (Action) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/13_hours_t...

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  • Get Shit Done Girl 🐕🐕🐕🐕 @tmfloressb.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    I’m not a fan of some of the people portrayed but 13 Hours, Secret Soldiers of Benghazi was a good film.

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  • MST3Katie @mst3katie.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    I normally enjoy the Letterboxd Journal but this bit about the 2016 Michael Bay movie “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” is stupefying

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  • theflutteringhorde @theflutteringhorde.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    Feels like a lot of these people would rather leave a beautiful corpse than win. Suicidal military development for the purposes of a 13 Hours style movie for the chuds.

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  • E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    For those wondering, the words on that pork shoulder are a quote he got from the wildly inaccurate film 13 Hours, because Benghazi bad! Clinton bad! Democrats bad! Trump good! He has no more understanding of these Joseph Campbell words than he does the Punisher logo. It's all dog whistles.

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  • Brennig @brennigjones.comBluesky · Dec 10, 2024

    Just watched 13 Hours. Netflix. As much as I am not a Michael Bay fan, and the editing had a couple of minor skips, this is a really good film. If you like gritty realism, give this a watch

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  • The Raúl Ruiz Diaries (by Jaime Grijalba) @ruizdiariesjaime.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    I remember my personal reaction to 13 Hours: it had the worst shot of any film of the year, yet it was also impeccably directed.

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  • keep calm and Carrie on @neoraven.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2024

    i don't know if anyone is ready to hear this but 13 Hours, the really stupid Michael Bay Benghazi movie, is actually kinda a banger

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  • Jason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    That shitty Michael Bay movie 13 HOURS

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 4K (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Action) (iMDB) 7.6 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 4K (Prime)(US) $4.99 (Action) (iMDB) 7.6 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini

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  • Joey Go Fast @joegofast.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 16, 2026

    We need MORE of this from Hollywood... We always get right wing propaganda like American Sniper, and 13 Hours... And now Michael Bay is doing a movie about the Pilots shot down in Iran... That the public knows nothing about... Fuck that! Let's make some movies about Trayvon Martin, or George Floyd!

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 4K (iTunes)(UK) £2.99 (Action) (iMDB) 7.6 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    The (movie) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 4K (Prime)(US) $4.99 (Action) (iMDB) 7.6 Cast: John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Dominic Fumusa, Max Martini

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  • Jack Badelaire @jbadelaire.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    Zuckoff wrote the book that Bay turned into the 13 HOURS movie which made the whole thing look like the fuckin' Battle of Thermopylae so I imagine the DoD PR people were jizzing in their pants when his agent called them about the book deal.

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  • Media News @media-news.at.thenote.appBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Michael Bay to Direct Operation Epic Fury Rescue Film About Two Pilots Recovered From Iran Michael Bay is working on a new film about a major military operation. Bay, who previously directed the 2016 military drama “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” is … #media #universalpictures #variety

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  • ad85.bsky.social @ad85.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    I mean even 13 Hours had some deniability that it was straight up propaganda since the message of the movie is essentially brave warriors were expended working on a botched CIA operation. What’s the angle of this one supposed to be. Pay no attention to the unpopular and inept war behind the curtain.

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  • Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    13 Hours is one of the few Bay films I quite like www.theguardian.com/film/2016/ja...

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  • Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    13 Hours, the Michael Bay Benghazi movie that caters to conspiratorial Fox News viewers, is pretty trashy, but I like the line where Pablo Schreiber mocked the idea of a bunch of Americans in a heavily secure CIA complex trying to be stealthy in Libya.

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  • People FIRST @deeplyindependent.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2026

    Odd, and I question whether or not he actually said that. He was a member of the cast portraying the Special Forces in Benghazi in the movie "13 Hours" and it was anything but complementary to the CIA.

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  • Dean @DitendraTMDB reviews · Jan 18, 2026

    For the movie that literally nothing happens but only thing that one side (Americans) are defending the place, movie should be shorter than standard time, but instead creators decided to make it longer than standard time. So, I had to withstand 2 hours and 24 minutes of boredom. I almost fell asleep to be honest.

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  • Forgotten Great Film Performances @performances.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi was released ten years ago on this day. Chuck Hogan wrote the screenplay based on Mitchell Zuckoff's 2014 non-fiction book. The film also stars John Krasinski, David Costabile, Max Martini, Pablo Schreiber, David Denman, Payman Maadi, and Toby Stephens.

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    🎬 The Top 4 Action Movies Released on January 15! What's your fave? 1. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2. Twin Dragons 3. The Book of Eli 4. Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip Check out all 50 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Action

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    🎬 Top 4 Movies Released on January 15! What's your fave? 1. Throne of Blood (1957) 2. Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 3. The Thin Red Line (1999) 4. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) 50 movies released today! Check them out at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film

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  • Jared Lipof @jaredlipof.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Venn diagram of people who complain when things get “political” and people who love the film 13 Hours is a circle.

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  • Today In Movies @todayinmovies.comBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    🎬 The Top 4 Horror Movies Released on October 28! What's your fave? 1. Prey for the Devil 2. 13 Hours in a Warehouse 3. Dead Space: Downfall 4. Macabre Check out all 66 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Horror

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  • Realbutterplease @growseedsman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    “All the Gods, all the heavens and all the hells are inside you.” One of my fav paraphrased movie quotes. Not that action movies carry mystical powers but that dead asshole already lived in his own hell. Hope that helps the atheists ‘round here. “13 Hours” is the film.

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  • Lesbo Baggins @xapismarie.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    Why is everyone watching 13 Hours? Like, it is not a featured film on the seatback screens and yet I have seen so many people choose it on both flights today!

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  • 아티/Artie 💖💜💙🇰🇷 @soapycinema123.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2025

    Anyway Michael Bay's politics revealed in 13 Hours (his film) so I knew he is doing republican shit now

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  • slcpios50.bsky.social @slcpios50.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    I’m not plugged into movie discourse so idk if this one is properly rated or not - but 13 Hours is one of my favorites

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  • Ryan McLelland @2g1reviews.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2025

    13 Hours rewatch was good. I def think it’s Michael Bay’s best flick - at least his most personal. Had to be more fulfilling than making a Transformers movie. A good proto Jack Ryan role for John Krasinski.

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