Argo
3.97/5
Based on 234 votes and 100 reviews.
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November 9, 2012
Touchdown!
November 9, 2012
One of the very best films of the year! You don't have to be Canadian or watch football to love Argo!
November 3, 2012
do not watch a waste of time and money sucks!
November 3, 2012
Historically accurate or no, this was a very good movie.
November 3, 2012
All I have say after seeing this movie is "That's Hollywood". Bears little resemblence to the events that in fact took place at the time. It is highly likely that Taylor and Company - risked their own lives in protecting the Americans - what if they had been caught. I am "old" enough to remember this incident - the movie about it is very deficient in both detail and fact and overall was not great regardless of the original story.\
November 2, 2012
Very well cast, attention to historical detail is amazing. Go see it!!!
November 2, 2012
This movie was well directed, but it's not historically accurate. This is Hollywood-history, which means the Americans are all-heroic, the enemies (Iranians) are stupid and weak, and the allies (Canada and Britain) are helpful sidekicks. In reality the Canadians did basically everything in this rescue. The CIA were the sidekicks of this story and the Canadians were the heroes. But that isn't how Hollywood wants to tell it.
October 31, 2012
The timing of this movie's release is very suspect, especially given that there are neo-con groups in the US and Israel who are trying to stir up public support for a war against Iran. I believe Noam Chomsky called it "manufacturing consent." This is blatant pro-war propaganda.
October 30, 2012
Affeck's excuse is that he was just trying to make a movie "that is absolutely just factual" he has said. But when you have a movie that ends with a heroic patriotic mission carried out by a C.I.A. operative and the reintegration of the American family unit, complete with a waving American flag in the background, you don't have a movie that's "just factual." You have a movie that is deeply and fundamentally conservative American propaganda at its worst. The classic an American hero rescuing the good guys from the bad guys. In the trailer it says. “in 1979...only one man... could bring them home”. The CIA’s Tony Mendez wasn’t even in Tehran except for two nights in January 1980.
October 30, 2012
Sure, Affleck is depicting a moment of national crisis in Iran, when the country was gripped with an extremist Islamic fervor, but I would tell Affleck that not every single Iranian was a screaming, violent, fundamentalist, as they seem to be depicted in just about every scene of the film. We get angry Iranian mobs on the streets, in bazaars. in the airports. Really?!?