Ben Affleck is a top director

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2012)

I see the preview of this movie in Brazil yesterday ans I could not be more satisfied. I was expecting something like the Kan Follett adaptation on the story of Ross Perot employees in Iran. I thought it would be a new version of this story, but it isn't.
The movie tells the story of 6 American embassy employees who could not leave the country when the Xa Reza Pahlevi flees and Aiatholah Khomeini assumes the power.
They escape and find refuge in Canada embassy and spent months living in the Canadian ambassador's house.
Mendez (played by Affleck) is hired by CIA to try to get then out of Iran. He proposes to go pretending to be a Canadian movie producer and the six hostages as a production team.
Everybody in the theater was gripping the seats. The best thriller based in a real story in years.
Ben Affleck is a top director, better than an actor. Like Clint Eastwood.
9/10