OK, If you live in a bubble!

Rating: 2/10 (21 January 2014)

The big problem with Hollywood 'story telling' in the 21st century, is that in the present age, we can easily check the truth of a historical incident online, without wandering home ignorant to the facts! When I saw this film I was sceptical, just because of Ben Affleck's participation (I mean, Spielberg, he ain't!) But my fears were confirmed within the first 20 minutes, yes it must have been scary at the time, but hello, even the crazy Ayatollah was not going to do more than try to humiliate the Yanks a little...his followers were not ever going to massacre any Europeans or Americans, he would have known it would have spelt disaster for his country! But more than this, I was aware of the true story of this time, and I was treated to a shameless work of fiction which dismissed The Canadian assistance and totally ignored the British help even to the point of saying 'The Brits and Kiwi's won't help us'! Erm...not true!, As for the escape scene, the reality is the fugitives were brought tickets and got on a plane..simple, there was no band of US hungry assassins out to capture anyone!