Argo was better than Tarantino's Django Unchained in 2012 & still is now. Infact Argo is better than most Tarantino films (Inglorious Basterds, Django, The Hateful Eight & Once Upon A Time In Hollywood), i mentioned Tarantino & his films because Ben Affleck's Argo is similar in it's old 70's/80's period setting & funny, smart & suspenseful storytelling & definitely Argo's in-movie making story with it's characters pretending to be making a movie as a cover. There's something Tarantino-esq about it all & i bet Tarantino loved this movie.

Movie star great Ben Affleck has gotten better & better over the years as an actor & now as a director.

I was a fan of his from his early glory days with Deception aka Reindeer Games & Daredevil & Paycheck & The Sum Of All Fears & Changing Lanes, i like all those movies from Affleck & loved his later work with greats like Triple Frontier & Smokin' Aces & The Town & The Accountant & His turn as Batman & of course Argo. Affleck is the best batman.

Back to Argo, this is such n excellent & superbly crafted suspense thriller that's based on a true story. There's civil unrest & Iranian revolution that takes over the U. S Embassy in Tehran that makes a small group of six survivors run & hide out at a friendly's canadian house but are on edge constantly in fear of being found out. America wants their people back but how? When the foreign country has been overrun.

Affleck is excellent & plays a smart thinking CIA agent named Tony Mendez, who comes up with a smart plan to get into the war torn country & get the six survivors out. Let's make a movie!!! Mendez goes undercover as a movie making crew scouting locations & it's a genius idea but a dangerous one.

Mendez gets some help from two great characters, a movie producer, a hilarious Alan Arkin & make-up effects master played by the great John Goodman. Arkin & Goodman are hilarious & give this intense thriller it's lighter moments.

Also supporting is Brian Cranston as Affleck's stressed boss.

The movie is so masterfully made with painstakingly accurate with it's 70's setting & attention to detail. Affleck is a great Director & created a piece of history on film & made it an exciting & suspenseful thriller & deserved all the awards it got.

Argo is not actually very violent but its tension & suspense are enough of a threat for the characters, it's the fear of being found out rather then blood & guts. This is one of Affleck's best performances.

Cinematography is stunningly beautiful & everything looks so old & so 70's early 80's, it's amazing really.

A masterfully made thriller.