Argo - Kritiken

...plays like a big Hollywood movie and succeeds despite the hundreds of ways it could have failed.

...a superbly crafted and darkly funny real-life political thriller, with pitch-perfect performances.

...a terrifically entertaining thriller that’s based on a true incident that occurred in 1980 at the height of the American hostage crisis in Iran.

Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) is an exfil expert. When people are unexpectedly caught in bad or scary situations, he gets them out.

Affleck does one of his soundest acting jobs – topping The Town...

It is so easy to manufacture a thriller from chases and gunfire, and so very hard to fine-tune it out of exquisite timing and a plot that's so clear to us we wonder why it isn't obvious to the Iranians.

Ben Affleck's electrically suspenseful, cunningly original true-life thriller, is the rare movie that has great fun while touching a raw political nerve.

Affleck has taken an unbelievable slice of reality and miraculously improved upon the truth, and the results could hardly be more satisfying.

An old-school espionage thriller with a movie-biz comedy twist, all the better for being (almost) entirely true.

...careful, involving film that turns one of recent history’s strangest footnotes into a gripping thriller...

Affleck's Argo is an oddball mix of political thriller and movie biz satire...

...en mysig nagelbitarthriller löst baserad på gisslandramat i Teheran 1980 där CIA:s fritagningsexpert Tony Mendez (spelad av Affleck själv) smugglade ut sex amerikanska diplomater...