Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton said Sunday that she is too focused on her campaign to see the new movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. James Badge Dale portrays the stalwart Tyrone "Rone" Woods, a natural leader and a bullheaded adversary to the sniveling Central Intelligence Agency base chief (David Costabile) who symbolizes everything wrong with foreign policy, in Bay's eyes, under the Obama administration.

Despite Bay's claims that 13 Hours has "no political agenda" beyond a faithful retelling of the events in Benghazi, studio sources told the Hollywood Reporter that the thriller is being marketed specifically to conservative audiences, including advertising and press in right-leaning media outlets and the choice of demographically friendly "red state" audiences for pre-release screenings.

A GOP-led house committee investigating the September 11, 2012, attack that left Christopher Stevens, the USA ambassador to Libya, and three other Americans dead, concluded in November 2014 there was "no evidence that there was either a stand down order or a denial of available air support". You may be angry cause you are onto his manipulation and resent it, but still you can't walk out because you want to know what is going to happen and this is what Bay is so good at. The film doesn't point fingers at who is to blame, at least on the surface, but rather provides viewers with a pure military-fighting, real-life story.

It's a reassuring, if temptingly reductive, message, consonant with recent war films that have rejected boo-yah bellicosity for more restrained portraits of military operators as principled, highly skilled professionals. "Not only because it's so highly politicized, but also because it's so intense and is a story not really being told". There isn't much depth to the story - even when the screenplay shoehorns in familial pathos - which holds back the film from being a stronger one.

It is easily arguable that for the first time in his career, Michael Bay has made a mature film.

Photographed in Malta, doubling for Libya, "13 Hours" begins with the usual introductions of the six GRS security personnel soon to be under siege. We may never know the real answer as to how and why the Benghazi attack took place. "I wish they had another 10 hours to tell all the side stories, but those are true American heroes, and it was captured on film, and that was really well done", Chaffetz said.

13 Hours repackages the story in Bay's trademark slick, ultra-patriotic fashion, with its handful of bloodied veterans hunkered down against an overwhelming threat as flags wave (or burn) over their shoulders.

"It was Oz, I believe, we were talking after the premiere". "It's my most realistic movie".

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Again, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi isn't required cinema for the action/war genre, but it satisfies as an adrenaline rush.

Running time: 2 hours, 24 mins.

Hayden Pittman is a special contributor to WFAA.com and a freelance film critic and entertainment writer out of Dallas.

Early reviews of film note that it is mostly apolitical.