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| Year of first release: 2012 | |
| Director: Ben Affleck | |
| Actors: Ben Affleck, John Goodman | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 04.12.2012, Cinemaxx, OV | |
| Synopsis: In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans are taken hostage. However, six manage to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA is eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options, exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devises a daring plan: to create a Canadian film project looking to shoot in Iran and smuggle the Americans out as its production crew. With the help of some trusted Hollywood contacts, Mendez creates the ruse and proceeds to Iran as its associate producer. However, time is running out with the Iranian security forces closing in on the truth while both his charges and the White House have grave doubts about the operation themselves. | |
| Review: The story is anyway really great and it is also real. The way it is realised is quite standard. There is no actor particularly good. One scene is good from from the camera and the acting, it is the escaping scene in the airport, even if it is a bit clownesque, and therefore not so realistic, for the military forces I had actually a very good time, but something is missing in this movie to make it great. Maybe more emotions. The movie shows the factual story, but this is not enough. | |
Rating: 6 /10
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Argo (2012)
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Finally seen on 20.06.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema.
ReplyDeleteI was afraid that too much of the movie would take place in Iran with the fugitives, so I was gladly surprised by the first part taking place in Hollywood, when Mendez is setting up the movie cover. I would even have liked to see more of it (the characters of John Goodman and Alan Arkin are very funny). The parallels are always nicely done between what happens in Iran and the USA.
I found that the Americans that are supposed to pass for a film crew don't act it very well: they look scared and acually suspicious, except in the scene that you mention at the airport. Also I found that there are too many coincidences in the story, last minute phone calls and barely escaping the enemies. Even if I can accept some amount of adaptation of the original story to make it a better film, that was too much.
I also found that something was missing in the movie, and I am not sure it deserved an Oscar. Maybe it got it because American felt bad about their responsibility in the Iranians events.
Rating: 6/10.
Indeed, it was interesting to see the Hollywood scenes and John Goodman. For the clownesque end, when I am thinking about it and comparing with other recent movies related close or far to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, American directors cannot resist against showing the enemies as very strong all along the movie and stupid at the end. It sounds sometimes like Georges W. Bush policy. You claim mass destruction weapons in Iraq, in order to catch the public (movie goer or voter) and actually, you win the "war" very easily and explain at the end how untrained aso. the enemies were. This way, the protagonist of the story looks like a hero saving the world. Hmm...
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