This is Ben Affleck's film all the way and I have to say I am more than impressed. I'm glad that he seems to have discovered what he is really good at. As an actor he was never really convincing. And even though he gives a great understated, albeit a bit one-note, performance here, it is in the director's chair where he excels.

This bizarre 'truth is stranger than fiction' tale has all the hallmarks of being turned into an over-stylized and over-dramatized political thriller. This is anything but that. Much like his performance, Affleck decided to take away the frills, leaving behind a film that is reminiscent of the political thrillers of yesteryear. Solid, made with craftsmanship and more…

Well, at least they didn't fuck up like Zero Dark Thirty did and have Pakistani locals speak in Arabic.

Argo works well as a thriller. It kept me hooked throughout the running time, and it had enough chuckles along the way to alleviate some of the tension. Affleck's direction is solid, though often veering toward tired cliche. (Another official throwing things in frustration? Come on.) I really liked the 80s aesthetic.

But this film actually won the Best Picture Oscar. It's a solid film, but come on, it can't be the best film made in 2012. Apparently there were several liberties taken with the true story, too. Canada played a much larger role, most obviously. And the slightly silly police-car-chasing-plane…

✅82%

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Best Picture Project (84/92)

Argo is a very thrilling and engaging movie. I was looking forward to watching this film because I’d read a handful of mixed reviews. I ended up liking this a whole lot more than I expected to, sure there is a few major flaws but this film displays such an engaging and agog tone that makes it easy to feel vastly entertained. The plot is great it’s an incredibly suspenseful and entertaining story. It’s a story that brilliantly deals with themes of responsibility and universally important moral decisions. I went into this film knowing nothing about what actually happened in real life so that all the…

Winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Argo is Ben Affleck's finest work as a director, is one of the best films of its year & is quite an accomplished piece of storytelling that expertly recounts the real-life event that took place in Iran during the Iranian Revolution in which 6 US diplomats were rescued by CIA with the help of Canadian government.

Set in 1979 Iran, the story of Argo follows 6 US diplomats who go into hiding when Iranian revolutionaries invade the American embassy in Tehran, taking several of them hostages. In an effort to get its people out of the country, CIA goes through various options & eventually settles with an insane plan; to arrive in Iran for…

69/100

Criticizing this film for its politics is goofy. Argo couldn't care less about U.S. support for the Shah; it just wants to be an unconventional suspense picture, using the Canadian Caper as a very loose template. And it succeeds (a) admirably, as well as (b) in nearly direct proportion to how much it diverges from the facts. Watching the revolutionary guards zoom down the tarmac in pursuit of the Swissair jet, I knew there was no way that chase actually happened, but who the hell cares—it's terrific nail-biter action, more gripping than anything Affleck's best pal ever pulled with Danny Ocean. Are there lost opportunities for a more incisive examination of the events that led to the hostage crisis…

50%🎬
Argo really just was not my thing. It did not appeal to me. It’s really between a 2.5 or a 2 but I have it at a 2 for now because it just didn’t do much for me personally. I found it pretty mediocre. In most cases I’m just not a big fan of political films. I don’t really know why. I guess many just bore me which for the most this did do. I understand liking this or loving this. I really do. What I don’t understand it that it won best picture. Like what? 2012 was a pretty solid year for film so why did they give it to this? They could’ve give it to Django Unchained…