OK it was watchable fair but to win Best Movie Oscar in 2013 I'm very surprised because where historical biopics are concerned this wasn't exactly up there with Ghandi.

Admittedly it was an interesting story as obviously this operation had been classified until now but clearly there was significant artistic license taken with the veracity of historical facts. Others have written more about that but this film is also heavily clichéd and portrays every Iranian as a mad mullah. Hell, when you consider the historical context of America's puppet the Shah prior to the revolution then I would be mad as hell and wanting every American collaborator dead. Perhaps the Iranians at that point were mad as hell and weren't going to take it anymore.

I wasn't much taken with the build up sequences to the rescue between the movie moguls, found it boorish and conceited, meanwhile Affleck sniffs and shuffles his way through the movie equally conceitedly in a ain't I cool and up myself sort of way.

Still the movie was watchable and happy to give a 6, I did consider 7 but given the negative aspects already highlighted I leaned more towards 6. Probably 6.5 would've been just right.