Argo Is Timely, Topical, and Thoroughly Entertaining
Six Americans are rescued from Iran in 1980, true story, and now the real life drama is a movie, and a good one at that !
November 4, 1979 a large group of Iranians storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran taking 52 Americans hostage but, six americans did escape. The story about how those six made it out is the set up for the film "Argo". The six find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. That's when CIA operative Tony Mendez comes in. He's played by Ben Affleck, who also directs the film. He cooks up a plan to fly in alone and fly out with the six, all of them posing as a film crew scouting locations for a faux "Star Wars" knockoff titled "Argo." Its a crazy scheme to get hostages out by fronting a fake movie, but it works…and, at times, very funny. There are some great supporting roles for Bryan Cranston, the CIA boss, Alan Arkin, the fake movie producer…
Erik Fernald
10:53 am on Sunday, October 14, 2012
Wasn't this a made for TV movie back in the 80's. Part of the title was "Canadian Caper", I cannot remember the rest of it. more ›