The secret soldiers of benghazi, as well as the actors training with those firearms. In doug stantons book horse soldiers, it was colonel max bowers, portrayed by rob riggle, who brought a piece of steel with him from the world trade center to afghanistan. The movie is based on a book cowritten by geist, paronto and tiegen and other former elite. The real life participants who fought to protect americans talk about the film adaptation of their experiences. Theres a real story of american heroism somewhere in here, but its diluted by bays worst tendencies. Jan 15, 2016 the former cia chief in benghazi says a pivotal scene in hours the new michael bay movie about the 2012 attacks that left four americans dead is baloney. The secret soldiers of benghazi, tells the story of the deadly sept.
Jan 14, 2016 hours is a history lesson as call of duty dlc expansion pack. The secret soldiers of benghazi 2016 english movie official theatrical trailer hd john krasinski, pablo schreiber, james badge dale hours. The film is visually hard to follow, never fully invests in its characters, and never gets the audience to do. The secret soldiers of benghazi, which portrays the fateful night that left four americans, including a u. In researching the hours true story, we discovered that john krasinskis character was indeed based on a real person, a navy seal whose name was changed for the book and movie to protect his identity. What happened during the 2012 benghazi attack is the most scrutinized, most politically explosive hours in recent history, and now the reallife american commandos who fought that night are coming forward to share their stories. And more importantly, is hours based on a true story. Hours is a 20 american disaster drama thriller film directed and written by eric heisserer. He shot through a little tiny window with the boat going up and down from fifty yards away, says father ben doherty, and killed a pirate without touching the captain.
The secret soldiers of benghazi is the first to be directly linked to real. The secret soldiers of benghazi, tells the true story of six cia security contractors who bucked orders to save american lives when libyan militants attacked. The secret soldiers of benghazi is an actionheavy thriller based on eyewitness accounts of the events leading up to the attacks on the temporary american mission in benghazi and the secret cia annex on sept. What really happened is more intriguing, more thrilling and more revealing than the fiction. He has moderately scaled back his extremecinema approach for hours, perhaps realizing that its story or the ordeals endured by the c. Michael bay has assured audiences that his libyanset military thriller hours. In hours, the guns are properly used, and their effects are well represented.
The latest featurette for michael bays benghazi movie hours. Working from a blackandwhite script by chuck hogan fxs the strain, bay has put his stamp all over hours. Each story is brought to life with enthralling dramatic reconstruction and archive footage of the actual events. By the time they got there, the compound had been overrun and the buildings were ablaze and smoking. The secret soldiers of benghazi, a gang of shouting, masked men storm the american diplomatic compound in benghazi, fire holes through an american flag and burn the. A spokesman for the cia is criticizing the michael bay movie hours. Jan, 2016 hours is benghazi story through michael bays lens. With john krasinski, pablo schreiber, james badge dale, david denman. Secret soldiers of benghazi discuss reallife events behind hours three contractors who fought back during the sept. Watch a documentary on the true story behind michael bays. In those moments, hours feels like a much better movie. The movie is directed by michael bay, so you know theres going to be a lot of explosions, but what is the movie actually about. Jan 08, 2018 hours the secret soldiers of benghazi p 02.
About real story of this series unpicks fact from fiction with interviews from the real people behind these extraordinary events. The true story behind the benghazi movie hours time. Democratic partisans have seized on the new movie hours. Michael bays hours promotes some of the worst benghazi. In doug stantons book horse soldiers, it was colonel max bowers, portrayed by rob riggle, who brought a piece. The secret soldiers of benghazi is an accurate retelling of the events surrounding the terrorist attack in benghazi. The secret soldiers of benghazi is a comparatively mature and restrained effort from michael bay, albeit one that cant quite boast the impact its factbased story deserves. Hours 20 film hours is a 20 american disaster drama thriller film directed and written by eric heisserer. Scroll through the gallery to see some of the weapons used in hours. The secret soldiers of benghazi is an accurate retelling of the events surrounding the terrorist attack in. Jan 11, 2016 the movie is directed by michael bay, so you know theres going to be a lot of explosions, but what is the movie actually about.
The deeper truth which doesnt diminish the reallife efforts of the men portrayed in the film is that private. Michael bay has made movies based on true stories before, but hours. Jan 15, 2016 michael bay has assured audiences that his libyanset military thriller hours. The inside account of what really happened in benghazi by writer mitchell zuckoff and the security team present at the islmaist attack in. Theres a real reason john krasinski got so buff 2015 was a record year at the box office, but the film industry in 2016 shows no signs of slowing down. Michael bay directed hours, the socalled secret soldiers of benghazi version of what happened. As exhausting as it is pulsepounding, the nearly 2 1 2hour film. Michael bays hours featurette tells reallife stories. The secret soldiers of benghazi as a distortion of the events and people who served in benghazi that night. Three and a half hours after the start of the assault on the tmf, reinforcements arrived.
Politics aside, hours is just a dull and poorly assembled grab for ticket sales. Jan 16, 2016 michael bay directed hours, the socalled secret soldiers of benghazi version of what happened. Is john krasinskis character jack da silva based on a real person. The secret soldiers of benghazi, is based on the book hours. Jan 12, 2016 john krasinski goes fullon warrior for hours. The secret soldiers of benghazi brings the horrors of war to life through interviews with the reallife soldiers portrayed. Ten days later, all but luttrell would be killed by. The former cia chief in benghazi says a pivotal scene in hours the new michael bay movie about the 2012 attacks that left four americans dead is baloney. From director michael bay, hours is the gripping true story of six elite exmilitary operators assigned to protect the cia who fought back against overwhelming odds when terrorists attacked a u. Jan 20, 2016 washington ap michael bays new film, hours. The inside account of what really happened in benghazi, written by new york times bestselling author mitchell zuckoff and coauthored by five members of the annex security team, including kris tanto paronto, john tig tiegen and mark oz geist. The secret soldiers of benghazi is as notorious by now as its grim. The secret soldiers of benghazi true story, we discovered that glen bub doherty, a former navy seal who was operating as a consulate security guard in libya, was also involved in freeing captain richard phillips from somali pirates in 2009. But hours is best understood as an actionmovievideo game variation on real events, a sort of mashup of tha attack on the alamo and john carpenters assault on precinct.
Jan 16, 2016 secret soldiers of benghazi discuss reallife events behind hours three contractors who fought back during the sept. Director michael bays new movie, hours, tells the story of the attack on the us diplomatic compound in libya and the mayhem that ensued. Jan 15, 2016 in those moments, hours feels like a much better movie. The 12 strong movie has chris hemsworths character mark nutsch in real life being given the candybarsized piece of metal by colonel mulholland. The secret soldiers of benghazi also known simply as hours is a 2016 american action thriller film directed and produced by michael bay and written by chuck hogan, based on mitchell zuckoff s 2014 book of the same name.
A movie, in other words, about the real reasons ambassador. The film stars paul walker, genesis rodriguez, tj hassan, shane jacobsen, and judd lormand. The film premiered on march 10, 20 at the south by southwest film festival in the topfer theatre in austin, texas. The reallife participants who fought to protect americans talk about the film adaptation of their experiences.