As someone whose family lived through those days INSIDE Iran, and as someone who has watched many of the actual videos from those times, I can tell you that this movie depicts everything very inaccurately, and the main reason it ever got popular was purely due to the significance of its political topic and nothing else.

I do have to mention that I'm not at all siding with those idiots who took hostage or really anyone who took an active part in that cursed revolution.

But the important thing I disliked about the movie was that it made everything about the whole nation of Iran, and not a minority of radical students taking part in that crisis - even most supporters of that devil - Khomeini - were not actually *radical* and would not ever do such a thing.

The movie made it look as if the whole population were mad zombies..

Not to mention, it had so many mistakes (like the flag of Turkey in their shots that were supposed to look like they're inside Iran)