Review of Argo (2012) by Neillos — 17 Mar 2013
This is a boring story. A CIA agent flies a commercial airliner into Tehran, and flies out two days later with six endangered Americans. There is no firefight, no border crossing, not even a romantic subplot.
The entire appeal of this movie is that it is historical "based on true events" says the promo but it turns out the movie has little to do with what actually happened in 1980. The CIA played a small part in the rescue, the Canadians did all the work, and most of the scenes are complete bunk.
Given the lack of historical content, Ben Affleck could have thrown in a car chase or two, a "traitor within" subplot, or maybe had the 747 pursued by Iranian fighter jets and chased off by a Sopwith camel.
Better yet, have the aliens from Argo intervene on behalf of the good guys (assuming that is us). It's all crap history anyway.
This review of Argo (2012) was written by Neillos on 17 Mar 2013.
Argo has generally received very positive reviews.
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