Written By- Chris Terrio Based on the Book "The Master of Disguse" By- Antonio J. Mendez and "The Great Escape" By- Joshuah Bearman
Starring- Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Chris Messina, Kyle Chandler, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Tom Lenk, Richard Kind, Kerry Bishe
Critics Review- "Argo is a triumph. It has tension, sincerity, mystery, artistic reprehensibility, entertainment value, technical expertise, a narrative arc and a thrilling respect for the traditionof how to tell a story with minimum frills and maximum impact."- Rex Reed "New York Observer"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 94% [CERTIFIED FRESH] Audience- 90%
Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars
[WARNING: MILD SPOILERS AHEAD]
My Review-
Ben Afflleck seems to be a better director at times than he is as an actor, with this movie it is not the case; he's really good at both. One thing I really liked about this movie is how it started, since it is about making a fake movie; the very beginning is shown to us as storyboards with a history lesson that led to events that take place in the movie, and that's when the movie had me hooked. As I was watching the movie I had actually kind of wondered why we never learned about it in the history classes that I took, since they only everyone knew about this was through a movie. This is one of those movies that has you on the edge of your seat the whole entire time, and well at the same time the film manages to poke fun at Hollywood; since it was about making a fake movie. When it came to this part of the movie, John Goodman and Alan Arkin were both spot on with the comedy the scenes with them took away from the tension in the movie so as an audience it was a little breathing room and we were able to laugh at something for a change. As you can tell above this movie had a all-star cast who were just amazing in the movie, even some of the actors who had little or no lines at all were really good. There were a few that I really enjoyed on screen one of them being Bryan Cranston, I always like seeing him in movies to see what he is going to do next or how he is going to act in the role and he always amazes me that way. This is possibly the best movie by far that Ben Affleck as directed and hopefully he will get a few Oscar nominations with this movie since it deserves them. For me this movie kept me at the edge of my seat the whole time that at times I almost felt like yelling at the movie screen while some scenes were playing out. One of my favorite parts of the whole movie was the Hollywood part it was non stop one liners and really bashing Hollywood for what it was at that time, well Goodman played real life make-up artist John Chambers and Alan Arkin played a made up Hollywood producer, I believe they played both their parts really well and made it believable they were making a real movie, at times I wanted too see what Argo was going to look like. Even though it does have a good rating on Rotten Tomatoes I do think it could be a little higher maybe like a 97%, and for it being based on a True Story it was very well told especially during the credits. This was the type of movie that at the end it showed side by side comparisons of the actual incident and scenes from the movie which I thought was really great to show all that at the end of the film. This should be one of the movies that you see this year, and I do expect or hope to see Oscar nominations when awards season rolls around.
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