Trapped in foreign territory
Friday, February 26, 2016
The film follows six members of a security operator’s task force known as G.R.S (Global Response Staff) made up of former special forces who fight to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya after waves of terrorist attacks. This group of six men went beyond the call of duty, performing extraordinary acts of courage and heroism, to avert tragedy on a much larger scale. This is their personal account, never before told, of what happened during the 13 hours of the now-infamous attack. What’s so cool about this film is how Michael Bay recruited relatively unknown actors and buffed them up to look tough. The G.R.S operatives look stone tough with beards like true mercenaries.
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