In Argo, Ben Affleck’s CIA agent Tony Mendez embarks on a harrowing escapade in Tehran.
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CIA spies are the good guys for a change in Argo, director Ben Affleck’s shrewd reconstruction of a bizarre mission aimed at retrieving six Americans from Tehran during the 1979-1980 Iran hostage crisis.
Smart, funny and suspenseful, the R-rated Argo is the first CIA-themed movie in a long time that doesn’t make you want to slit your wrists over the Agency’s acts of incompetence or nastiness. Affleck stars as ballsy “exfiltration” operative Tony Mendez, but his most astonishing accomplishment comes in directing an uplifting spy story that actually seems credible despite decades of depressing films that make the nation’s top intelligence agency look like an amoral bully.
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