A bit of military “realism” in war, eh? Like Zulu? Bataan? Alamo? Thermopylae? Pearl Harbor?
(Losing a battle can be - often is! - inspirational.)
No more like a documentary. Where the movie works is when you pull the various threads together.
For example
Where did the weapons the CIA was buying end up?
Why could they get an armed drone to hit the Jihadist stash of Sa-7s when they tracked him back to his nest but could not get anything at all over the Annex during the 13 hours of assaults?
Why do you repeatedly see scenes of the US Military spinning up to go in but NOTHING ever gets to the Annex until the team dispatched from Tripoli gets there?
Why is the drone over the Annex unarmed?
Why do you see early in the film a shot of the WH and the words “POTUS is being briefed” and yet NOTHING is done?
So sure, if you want a heroic Hollywood fiction, then this isn’t your movie. If you want to put visuals with the story and pull the threads together in an understandable, clear way, this is your movie.
Here is my assessment.
Our PC CIC and his Administration got these guys killed. I think they are so wedded to their political dogmas that they kept waiting for the locals to get their act together. They were so petrified of a “Black Hawk Down” type incident 60 days before 0 re-election that they did NOTHING. They kept hoping the locals would clean it up for them so they would not have to do anything.
It a story of the fundamental incompetency of the DC Political machine so wedded to Leftist political theories they are routinely paralyzed in the face of real world events.