A very good movie.

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2013)

Even though you know that it has a happy ending, Argo is a thriller all the way to the end. A very good friend of mine who spent many years in the service and later worked on spy satellites told be that he was amazed at how the film grabbed and kept his attention to the very end.
It is also quite funny. It isn't stupid-type funny so prevalent in movies today. Rather it is John Goodman and Carl Reiner type funny.
If you didn't know better, you would think that this was filmed in Tehran. Great attention to detail from the firearms carried by the Revolutionary Guard to the buildings has been paid. It is one of those movies where you forget you are watching a movie.
It is, needless to say, a very, very good film.