Genuine thriller. Genuine suspense!

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2013)

This film directed by Ben Affleck deserves every accolade, honor and award it is presented. As far as saying it is a great movie is debatable, but Mr. Affleck directs the hell out of it! It is not always easy to present to a jaded audience something based on actual events...historical events. The scene is the 1979 Iran hostage crisis that had 53 Americans held captive for 444 days. When Islamic student militants go on a rampage and storm the American Embassy in Tehran; it is more or less protocol to destroy official documents while trying to protect life and limb. Six embassy staffers make a hurried decision to make a break for it and manage to take asylum at the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador. The CIA with cooperation of the Canadian government put ex-filtration expert Tony Mendez(Affleck)to the task of devising a plan to rescue the six Americans. It is decided to smuggle the six staffers out Tehran by passing them off as part of a production crew making a sci-fi movie titled Argo. Mendez will have to get the Americans past the Iranian security posing as the movie's associate producer. Alan Arkin and John Goodman lead a supporting cast that also features: Bryan Cranston, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Victor Garber, Kerrie Bishe, Rory Cochrane, Scoot McNairy and Kyle Chandler.