Directed by Ben Affleck.
★★★★
At this point, I'd have to say Ben Affleck is a must-see director. The first three movies of his directing career - Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and now Argo - have all been fantastic.
This is the true story of the rescue of six Americans in 1979 from Iran. When the US Embassy was overrun and all 50 Americans inside were taken hostage, six employees had escaped and hid in the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Affleck cast himself as Tony Mendez, the CIA operative charged with getting those six out. He comes up with the idea of pretending he's a Hollywood producer doing a location scout, and pretending that the six are part of his film crew to get them out.
The Iranian parts are as suspenseful and tense as a prison-break movie, the Washington parts flow like a good West Wing episode, and the Hollywood parts are like any good satire. And there's not one wasted moment. It moves and crackles.
This movie seems a shoo-in for nominations for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and a few others, and lest that makes the movie sound like stodgy homework, fear not. It flies by.
1 comment:
It was good, that’s for damn sure, but there also felt like something was missing from the final-product to really take us by storm. Everybody’s fun to watch and the movie has it’s tense moments, but overall, it’s not as exciting when you know the out-come beforehand. Nice review John.
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