highly over-dramatised

Rating: 6/10 (5 June 2014)

I'm positive that if this story was told in a realistic fashion it would be a very good movie or documentary and I have no doubt that the original story is fascinating, unfortunately it is badly exaggerated here and basic missing details undermine the movies believability
The story is that they are location scouting for a movie yet at no point do any of them get into character and discuss the movie and the merits of shooting it in Iran, surely that would be necessary in order to pull something like this off
Instead they are all constantly beady eyeing the Iranian military and looking massively shifty at all times, including Affleck who is supposed to be a trained CIA operative but at no point acts like the brash producer that he is supposed to be imitating
The movie climaxes with the Iranians chasing the plane down the runway as it takes off and nearly cutting in front of the aircraft.. they weren't able to just make a phone call. At this point since believability had gone out of the window I thought it was going to go Die Hard with Affleck fighting an Iranian military man on the wing of the plane
To make up for it, at the end of the movie as a cherry on top Affleck gets back with his wife with American flag waving in the background
All of these extra dramatisations were unnecessary and spoilt what would have otherwise been a very good movie