Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (26 January 2013)

The sky's the limit for Ben Affleck right now, and its nothing less than he deserves. Affleck shot the film for around $US44 million and substituted Los Angeles for Tehran, but you'd never know it – it feels like a massive movie filmed on location, so all credit to production designer Sharon Seymour, who will be nominated for an Oscar and completely deserves one. There are so many good performances it seems churlish to single any out, but Alan Arkin once again proves he is simply in possession of one of the greatest, and funniest, presences in cinema today.he whole thing is paced like a whip, and the third act may literally be the most suspenseful piece of film I've ever seen . Recommended without any reservation for every and any movie fan, I only urge that you see it immediately, as the less you know about the story, the more astonishing your experience will be. Best film of the year thus far.