Getting the good guys out

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2013)

With all the buzz of Argo I was excited to go and check out what the fuss is about. I must say that I loved it. It has politics, suspenseful, and even though you kinda know where it is heading there are several nail biting scenes. I sort of remember the hostages in Iran, I was ten at the time and do recall the yellow ribbons around the trees and the count up on the amount of days they were held. That event ensured that President Carter would not win a second term. In Argo, the embassy is overrun by unrolling Iranians in protest to the United States and a renegade of embassy workers, six in all, are able to escape to the Canadian Embassy. Then there is a conflict back in the US to how to rescue the Americans. In comes CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) who comes up with the ideal cover, that they workers are actually Hollywood scouts checking out scenes for a action flick. Ben Afleck both stars and directs, but he makes for a believable undercover agent who balances following his higher ups and taking care of his people. This movie is a must see of a story that recently has come out from declassified documents. One interesting reference is when they scramble to contact White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, they call under the auspices of calling from Pace Academy, a private school in Atlanta where his kids attended.