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Dead on arrival, as expected...
“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” opened with an estimated $19.6 million domestically, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “American Sniper,” which opened the same weekend a year prior, pulled in a stunning $107.2 million, while “Lone Survivor” opened to $37 million in early January 2014.
For Michael Bay, this was the worst opening for one of his movies in a decade, and it’s on pace to lose money.
It probably doesn’t help that the reviews are quite bad. Salon’s Simon Maloy wrote this morning:
GOP activism does little to boost Benghazi movie
“13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” opened with an estimated $19.6 million domestically, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “American Sniper,” which opened the same weekend a year prior, pulled in a stunning $107.2 million, while “Lone Survivor” opened to $37 million in early January 2014.
For Michael Bay, this was the worst opening for one of his movies in a decade, and it’s on pace to lose money.
It probably doesn’t help that the reviews are quite bad. Salon’s Simon Maloy wrote this morning:
Michael Bay’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” is a bad movie. And I’m not just talking about the filmmaking, which is bad in the way that most Michael Bay movies are bad – it’s loaded up with frenetic camera work, neck-snapping edits that make it impossible to follow the action, and gratuitous war porn. […]
What makes “13 Hours” especially terrible is the way it crassly exploits the politics surrounding Benghazi. It’s not possible to make a movie about Benghazi that doesn’t carry any political significance, given the right’s enduring obsession with the attacks. But Bay’s film unsubtly pokes at every conspiracy about Benghazi while declaring itself a “true story.”
The movie’s fans probably won’t want to hear this, but the former CIA chief in Benghazi says “13 Hours” is largely a work of fiction, rehashing ideas that have already been discredited."What makes “13 Hours” especially terrible is the way it crassly exploits the politics surrounding Benghazi. It’s not possible to make a movie about Benghazi that doesn’t carry any political significance, given the right’s enduring obsession with the attacks. But Bay’s film unsubtly pokes at every conspiracy about Benghazi while declaring itself a “true story.”
GOP activism does little to boost Benghazi movie