Fantastically, suspense-fully constructed, "Argo" tells the true story of the rescue of six American embassy personnel who managed to elude capture in the take-over the embassy during the Iranian revolution and who were hidden at the Canadian embassy. Director Ben Affleck also stars as Tony Mendes, the CIA operative who hatched the idea of having the six impersonate a film crew scouting locations. It seems like such an over-the-top caper movie that it's hard to believe it actually happened. Affleck proves himself an accomplished director as well as actor in this piece, and John Goodman and Alan Arkin lend knowing Hollywood insider performances as the producers who constructed the movie side of the subterfuge. It's kind of amazing that even though you know the ending, the movie still delivers on white-knuckle apprehension.
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