Argo see it right now!

Rating: 10/10 (14 November 2012)

I decided to go see this film purely on the basis it had Dream On by Aerosmith in the trailer and it looked pretty explosive. I have to say that it was one of the best few quid I have spent all year!
Argo is set in 1979 Iran at the time when the US embassy in Tehran was seized by Iranian rebels and revolutionaries. During the siege six workers managed to escape and sort refuge in the Canadian ambassador's house. It is Tony Mendez's(Ben Affleck) job working with CIA to get the hostages out of the city and back to the US. Not to give too much of the plot away and ruin it for you, it is his job to devise a plan to get them home by getting them involved in a fake sci-fi film developed entirely with the aim of getting them back home with many tense and gripping moments along the way. The defining line being "so you want to come to Hollywood, act like a big shot...without actually doing anything? You'll fit right in!"
Casting agent has done a brilliant job for this film I must say. Affleck's movies can either go terribly or brilliantly, thankfully his tip-top job made this a brilliant film making the character of Tony very believable and gritty. Bryan Cranston (a man who I only know from playing Hal in Malcolm In The Middle) plays Jack O'Donnell the CIA officer who seems to only person to have faith in the operation and his down-to-earth and realistic acting made him brilliant gutsy CIA individual. The aim of the operation was to make a phony Hollywood movie and John Goodman plays John Chambers a prosthetic artist who uses his knowledge of the city to set up a fake movie with all the bells and whistles. Alan Arkin plays Lester Siegel a leading Hollywood actor and the duo help make the operation happen and also provide the odd joke and key-line here and there. Of course a hostage movie can't be possible with some hostages and performances from Kerry Bische and Tate Donavon made the hostages that bit believable and you as the audience feel part of the group with the intimate moments of peril.
The whole idea seems very far-fetched and something you would hear straight out of Hollywood, but you keep having to remind yourself that these events did actually in real life and the life and death situations you see the characters really did occur to the people involved. Various photos during the credit rang this true, showing that the director (also Ben Affleck) did an exquisite job of getting all the scenes and people to look nearly identical the actual events of the end of the 70's in Tehran, right down to the burning flags and the 'in-fashion moustaches'. Big well done for the CIA in real life for actually pulling this job off for real! Bit of a clichéd but it had me right on the edge of the seats right until the very end with the fast pace of the escape getting your heart pumping, and (not knowing that these events happened and the true life outcome it because of my age) had me wanting to know the result with every minute passing.
Overall I'd say it's one of the best movies I've seen all year and hat's off for the return of Ben Affleck in an excellent protagonist and director role and he deserved multiple awards for so far the film of year!
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