"Plenty of disillusionment too. And it’s pretty clear that, in the motion picture at least, for Silva and Woods the disillusionment crept in long before the men got to Benghazi. We have the finest men fighting for our country, and we don’t have their backs. Something to think about this November."Legal Insurrection
. . . "The blame for the death of four Americans in the hands of the terrorists is never explicitly put on the the highest echelons of government. Apart from the single sentence “The POTUS is briefed” superimposed over the picture of the White House, nothing assigns the responsibility for the death of four Americans to the president. Something tells me if it was a Bush White House, the filmmakers would find a way to make it abundantly clear where the buck stops.
"Although Ms. Clinton’s name is never uttered, the oil industry lobbyist Sona Jilliani (Alexia Barlier) initially established herself as a Hillary archetype. The character is a blue-eyed, Harvard-educated resident of the CIA compound, always on the verge of striking some sort of a deal and always berating the men who risk their lives to protect hers. But Jillani redeems herself towards the end and, in any event, the Hillary connection, if intended, is in no way obvious to a mainstream viewer. Because 13 Hours steers clear of partisan politics, it is a better, much less heavy-handed film than it would otherwise had been." . . .
Michael Bay to film Benghazi drama 13 Hours in Morocco and Malta
. . . "Morocco is the top international filming location for desert landscapes and is coming off a strong 2014 that saw a five-fold increase in foreign shoots. Tom Cruise was one of the highest-profile visitors with Mission: Impossible 5.
"Malta is also a popular double for Middle Eastern locations and in recent years has doubled for Israel in Brad Pitt’s zombie drama World War Z (above), and for the Indian Ocean in Tom Hanks’ modern piracy thriller Captain Phillips. " . . .
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