Michael Bay’s thriller would end up losing to Kevin Hart’s Ride Along 2, in the box office earning less than $30 million.
Michael Bay’s 13 Hours has slipped in the box office to only fourth place. According to reports, the movie will only make half as much as Ride Along 2 with only $20 million, which is severely disappointing considering Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper earned $107.2 million and both movies used the same marketing decisions bytargeting political conservatives.
13 Hours centered around a political terrorist attack in 2012 against the U.S. Embassy compound in Benghazi that left four people dead including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Peter Travers with the Rolling Stone says this about 13 Hours, “Several critics have given 13 Hours a pass, citing Bay’s skill at action engineering. It’s his failure at everything else that makes this movie as hard to endure as it is impossible to believe. #helpme”.
