Good, but not the best movie of 2012

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2015)

Good, but not brilliant, and certainly not the best movie of 2012.
Interesting, intriguing and highly plausible. Good pacing - hardly a dull moment.
Good performances all round.
Yet, as mentioned, surely not worth a Best Picture Oscar. Sure, there have been many far worse Best Picture Oscar winners (Cimarron, Braveheart, Titanic and The English Patient spring immediately to mind), but in a year which gave us such great movies as Django Unchained, Life of Pi and, especially, Zero Dark Thirty, Argo gets it? It just lacked that extra something to make it deserving of the Oscar.