Argo
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), Alan Arkin (Little
Miss Sunshine), John Goodman (Monster's
Inc)
Director: Ben Affleck (Gone
Baby Gone, The Town)
Release Date: OUT NOW
Say what you will about Ben Affleck’s acting skills, there’s
no denying that he’s a talented director. I really enjoyed Gone Baby Gone and The Town
but I think Argo tops both of them.
Argo is based on a
real-life story set during the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis. It was a tumultuous
period in US-Iranian relations with Iranian militants storming the US embassy
and kidnapping most of the American staff. However, a small group of six US
diplomats managed to escape and secretly hid away in the home of the Canadian ambassador.
In comes Ben Affleck as CIA agent Tony Mendez to extract the diplomats from
Iran. He concocts a crazy scheme: to create a cover story that the six
diplomats are Canadian filmmakers scouting in Iran for exotic locations to
shoot the science fiction film Argo.
