Argo (2012)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman
Synopsis:
1980: when Iranian students storm the US Embassy in Tehran, six escape to take refuge in the Canadian ambassador's residence. A CIA operative conceives a plan to get them out by having them pose as a Canadian film crew scouting for a new science-fiction movie.
Review:
Tense, deliberate, and emulating those great political thrillers of the seventies in its up-close aesthetic and even down to its retro Warner Bros titles, this star-helmed project brings out the best from those Hollywood players involved, notably Affleck and Clooney (producing). It's essentially a nailbiter, with two or three suspense sequences recognisable from great POW movies past, but the settings in post-revolutionary Iran are vividly caught and a triumph of faux-reportage filmmaking on a budget considerably less than that of a Bourne picture.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman
Synopsis:
1980: when Iranian students storm the US Embassy in Tehran, six escape to take refuge in the Canadian ambassador's residence. A CIA operative conceives a plan to get them out by having them pose as a Canadian film crew scouting for a new science-fiction movie.
Review:
Tense, deliberate, and emulating those great political thrillers of the seventies in its up-close aesthetic and even down to its retro Warner Bros titles, this star-helmed project brings out the best from those Hollywood players involved, notably Affleck and Clooney (producing). It's essentially a nailbiter, with two or three suspense sequences recognisable from great POW movies past, but the settings in post-revolutionary Iran are vividly caught and a triumph of faux-reportage filmmaking on a budget considerably less than that of a Bourne picture.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 120m
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman
Synopsis:
1980: when Iranian students storm the US Embassy in Tehran, six escape to take refuge in the Canadian ambassador's residence. A CIA operative conceives a plan to get them out by having them pose as a Canadian film crew scouting for a new science-fiction movie.
Review:
Tense, deliberate, and emulating those great political thrillers of the seventies in its up-close aesthetic and even down to its retro Warner Bros titles, this star-helmed project brings out the best from those Hollywood players involved, notably Affleck and Clooney (producing). It's essentially a nailbiter, with two or three suspense sequences recognisable from great POW movies past, but the settings in post-revolutionary Iran are vividly caught and a triumph of faux-reportage filmmaking on a budget considerably less than that of a Bourne picture.