Entertaining but severely overrated patriotism?

Rating: 7/10 (21 April 2019)

Argo is a true story film, whilst entertaining in that it kept me glued to it, is severely overrated.
It won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2013 and seems to have some critics swooning (especially U.S. ones I found).
You see, it is about an unorthodox CIA mission to rescue six embassy workers holed up in the Canadian ambassadors house in Tehran in 1980. Basically they managed to escape marauding mobs of Iranians who invaded the U.S. embassy.
Their fate could quite easily mean death and public execution. Such is the environment at the time.
I didn't like how the British embassy involvement was airbrushed from the film.
Anyway a military rescue by special forces is at first ruled out leaving CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to explore other options for evacuation.
A series of bad ideas is mooted including setting up a fake Canadian science fiction film production using Iran as a location to cover the moon. (Why!)
Mendez actually travels to Iran to rendevous with the six escapees in the Canadian ambassadors house with cooperation from the Canadians and a set of fake Canadian passports to hand to set up the production, Argo as in the title.
Argo is some fake, rejected Flash Gordon like project.
The six eventually come round to the highly dangerous idea and evacuate the country on a commercial flight in a game of cat and mouse at the airport.
The film is true and entertaining and I had never heard of the operation, only being revealed under the President Clinton administration years later it is displayed on screen.
An average film, but nothing special. If anything like a TV docu-drama.
Directed by Ben Affleck.