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Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
If you're looking for an action packed, thriller suspense...skip this movie! If you watched the trailer and think this is going to be an edge of your seat film, thing again!....Argo is a slow paced, biography drama, it's not a thriller. It's an introspective look at an inside CIA plan to extract six Americans trapped in Tehran, during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. These six Americans are hiding in the Canadian embassy and the Iranians are looking for them, but not sure of their whereabouts.
The movie follows an actual secret plan that the CIA came up with to get the hostages out of the country by using an elaborate ruse which was, a cover story of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a new sci-fi film in Iran. With the trapped Americans as 'part' of the movie production team, with fake credential and everything.
This sounds like your typical Hollywood blockbuster but director Ben Affleck, does a pretty decent job here of making this feel like an authentic CIA operation. He avoids all the pitfalls that would have made this just another action-suspense-thriller. I liked the casting, the pacing, everything was top notch except how the ending was done. I can't tell you what the ending is and what happens is factual. What I didn't like was the pacing. Affleck for the end sequences went Hollywood with cliche moments in attempt to build excitement.
But if you can overlook the last few minutes, this film tells an amazing story of a low point in America's history, when another country, Iran took and held over sixty American hostages for 444 days. The repercussions of this event still shape U.S. foreign policy today.
Argo (2012)
Director: Ben AffleckCast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
If you're looking for an action packed, thriller suspense...skip this movie! If you watched the trailer and think this is going to be an edge of your seat film, thing again!....Argo is a slow paced, biography drama, it's not a thriller. It's an introspective look at an inside CIA plan to extract six Americans trapped in Tehran, during the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980. These six Americans are hiding in the Canadian embassy and the Iranians are looking for them, but not sure of their whereabouts.
The movie follows an actual secret plan that the CIA came up with to get the hostages out of the country by using an elaborate ruse which was, a cover story of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a new sci-fi film in Iran. With the trapped Americans as 'part' of the movie production team, with fake credential and everything.
This sounds like your typical Hollywood blockbuster but director Ben Affleck, does a pretty decent job here of making this feel like an authentic CIA operation. He avoids all the pitfalls that would have made this just another action-suspense-thriller. I liked the casting, the pacing, everything was top notch except how the ending was done. I can't tell you what the ending is and what happens is factual. What I didn't like was the pacing. Affleck for the end sequences went Hollywood with cliche moments in attempt to build excitement.
But if you can overlook the last few minutes, this film tells an amazing story of a low point in America's history, when another country, Iran took and held over sixty American hostages for 444 days. The repercussions of this event still shape U.S. foreign policy today.