Argo Review

Release Date: 7th November 2012

Age Certificate: 15

Running Time: 120 mins
Director: Ben Affleck
Writers: Chris Terrio and Joshuah Bearman

Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and Alan Arkin

The film Argo is a dramatisation of the 1980 CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic prisoners out of revolutionary Iran. The way they try and carry out this mission is to make a fake film called Argo and pretend that these six people are the film crew. Ben Affleck's character comes up with this idea. Affleck directs Argo and obviously stars him. It’s a really intense dramatic thriller that was one of the best films from last year.   

You can tell that hey have put their research into the film this is because it has a great sense of realism. Ben Affleck is amazing. His first film was Gone Baby Gone, which was a fantastic film and then he came out with The Town, which in my opinion was not as good as Gone Baby Gone but still amazing. And now he has Argo which I believe is his best film. It’s fast and real. The 120 minutes of Argo seems to fly past far too quickly.

This is also one of Ben Affleck’s best performances, playing this American hero he has put himself as he may want to dramatise the role. But he is so toned down and makes the audience believe he is just a normal person with an idea that is so ridiculous it’s amazing. A good performance also comes from Bryan Cranston, which I’m kind of getting a little bit tired of saying, every time he comes on screen he takes on the role like it is himself. Alan Arkin and John Goodman's relationship is really funny, it's fantastic, you couldn't get two better people to work with each other. It always seems that Alan Arkin plays the same role in each film (the guy who swears a lot), which is still great to me.

Oh, and the mustaches will also keep you entertained.  

8.5/10

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