"Argo," Ben Affleck's much acclaimed second directorial effort, is a fine film without much of a soul. Affleck stars as Tony Mendez, a C.I.A. technical operations officer who is brought in to help exfiltrate six American diplomats from Iran in 1980. These diplomats managed to escape the American Embassy when it fell, avoiding what became the Iranian hostage crisis. With some help from Hollywood associates and the Canadian government, Mendez constructs a plan so stupid it just might work: fly to Tehran as a fake film producer and fly out of Tehran with the six hostages posing as his film crew.
Argo
Argo
Argo
"Argo," Ben Affleck's much acclaimed second directorial effort, is a fine film without much of a soul. Affleck stars as Tony Mendez, a C.I.A. technical operations officer who is brought in to help exfiltrate six American diplomats from Iran in 1980. These diplomats managed to escape the American Embassy when it fell, avoiding what became the Iranian hostage crisis. With some help from Hollywood associates and the Canadian government, Mendez constructs a plan so stupid it just might work: fly to Tehran as a fake film producer and fly out of Tehran with the six hostages posing as his film crew.