Director: Ben Affleck
Rated: R
Length: 120 min.
Taking home both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Picture, I expected more from this highly decorated film. Although this film displayed a very accurate depiction of the events that played out in history, it failed to reach me on a personal level. Now, I have a lot of respect for Ben Affleck as both an actor and filmmaker, but I feel as though The Town, was far superior to his most recent "juggernaut." The realistic qualities of this film weren't shown in a fashion that made it believable, even though I knew that this film depicted the historical events extremely well from the real-time photographs shown at film's end. Maybe it's the fact that I hold films to the highest standard these days, but in all honesty, this was just plain boring. The action sequences were premature, and the hostages didn't seem to be at all scared of their impending plight. I was not convinced. All in all, not a bad film, but definitely undeserving of Best Picture of the Year. Come on now Argo, you can do better than that.
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