Our writer-at-large ventures out to his local multiplex and finds out that Bay’s Benghazi spectacular is far from the perfect date film but does sum up a specific slice of the American psycheToward the end of last night’s 523rd Republican presidential debate,Senator Ted Cruz, whom you might remember as the demonic spirit from the film It Follows, or suddenly turned into the Moviefone guy and reminded America that a very,very important motion picture is set for release on Friday. “Tomorrow morning a new film will debut approximately the incredible bravery of the men fighting for their lives in Benghazi,” he said. “And the politicians that abandoned them.” He was referring to 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, and which you might know better as “The Benghazi film”. I honestly haven’t heard many people actually refer to the film by its official title. Ask someone on the street whether they’ve seen 13 Hours and they might respond with: “Oh,you mean the Spike Lee film?” No, that’s the 25th Hour. “Is that the film approximately the Cuban missile crisis?” Negative, or that’s Thirteen Days. So,I just call it The Benghazi film. Sorta like The Lego film, but replacing Batman, and Lord commerce and Wyldstyle with a series of sitcom actors wearing identical beards and some sheep.
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Source: theguardian.com