A Critically Successful But Forgetable Film About Terrorism. Great For Sleeping.

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2019)

I love Ben Affleck and I feel like people unfairly give him a hard time. But, after falling asleep the first couple times I tried to watch this 2 hour movie with a great cast, I kept asking myself, "Why does everyone love this movie so much? I mean, it's a fine movie, but it's mostly dialog and it's kind of boring. What is the deal?"
We live in a time where national borders seem fuzzy. Terrorist groups spring up overnight, with new names and new agendas in new parts of the world. Groups of thousands of people are considered 'migrants' and they just roam with no home.
So, in this era of uncertainty, Americans with money fear travel, and they fear the poor, and they fear the general idea of 'terrorism'. Affleck and the studio tapped into that fear, and this movie got way more attention than it probably deserved. The critics panned Affleck as Batman a couple of years later, and 'Batman v Superman - Dawn of Justice' (2015) was a much better film than 'Argo' (2012). This is simply a case of Hollywood fearmongering - embracing anti-Muslim sentiment to sell Blu-Rays and DVD's to conservatives in Wal-Mart stores.
This is a fine movie, but it is a critical fluke. History will remember Ben Affleck and will remember many of his projects, but history will forget 'Argo' (2012).
RealReview Posting Scoring Criteria:
Acting - 1/1;
Casting - 1/1;
Directing - 1/1;
Story - 1/1;
Writing/Screenplay - 1/1
Total Base Score = 5
Modifiers (+ or -):
none.
Total RealReview Rating: 5