A very good movie

I already saw this movie but, since it was a while back, I thought I might as well check it out again. The first time around, ever since I had heard about this movie, I became intrigued and when it won finally the Best Picture Academy Award, I became even more interested. And, to my surprise, I really enjoyed it. I mean, I was expecting something good but not something so entertaining. Indeed, it seemed to be historically pretty accurate, it was a thrilling thriller and there were even some hilarious bits. Even the animated introduction was neat because it gave a context for the whole thing. Without it, the Iranians would have been some bloodthirsty hysterical fanatics but, with this intro, you were able to understand that there was once upon a time a legit prime minister who took care off his people, nationalizing the petroleum industry in the process. But, of course, the American government didn't like this and replaced him with the Sha who turned out to be a despote and after years of cruel dictactorship, the population turned to the Muslim fundamentalists. All this information that you get within the first minutes of this movie was crucial because it allowed you understand how the whole situation turned out to be so terrible. It gave a great nuance about their endeavour. Indeed, Mendez was a great hero and the CIA did a terrific job but they also messed up this contry for decades so two sides were displayed. After that, I don't know, I thought it was just quite thrilling. I mean, I did like 'Gone Baby Gone' and 'The Town' but I never thought that either one were really that amazing. However, this flick was a total different kind of ball game. It was slick, smart, emotional and, sometimes, just plain fun. Of course, there were a few issues. The first one, obviously, was that you knew from the start that they were  going to make it so for us, viewers, there was never much at stake as for those poor fellows. Still, Affleck managed to make it quite nail-biting. The other issue I had was that, at some point, there were couple of scenes where the military police were just missing them for a few minutes. It didn't work very well but it didn't spoil the whole thing. The other thing I loved about this movie was how solid Ben Affleck was as a director and as a lead actor in this terrific picture. It was a huge middle finger to all those haters who kept saying that he was worthless and you could hear Matt Damon giving him a huge mental high-five with those thoughts 'You nailed it, buddy. I know you had it in you and I'm so glad you're finally back in the game'. Anyway, to conclude, I thought it was a really solid historical thriller flick, much better than I expected, and it is definitely worth a look.

8/10