Admirable film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I will not engage on the historical fallacies of the movie, in spite of being Canadian. There's enough about that already.In fact, all of this polemics hides the fight that it's a pretty average movie right there. Sure, it was well-directed, well-acted, well-shot etc - you know, Hollywood at its best, but the history had no twist, and the suspense (represented by the apparation of women dressed in black) was minimal. It wasn't stylish and reeked of Islamophobia. In fact, the "Argo" movie they used as a pretext looked miles more interesting. Now that's a movie I would want to see.And yes, there's a couple of nice scenes here and there, but this could easily have been a direct-to-TV film - I just don't see what the hype is about. It won Oscars? Seriously?

Moves slowly. Nothing much happens. Hardly any action. Not memorable or worthy of more than one viewing. Not sure why this was so critically acclaimed. It is okay, but it's nothing spectacular. If you want an exciting political/action thriller set in a foreign land, watch 'Munich' instead.

some of my friends brought this movie to class and we watched together in meaning of speak and argue about itin the end all of us were disappointment this was my first time that I was seeing Ben Affleck's acting and it was really awful and he looked like a goddamn robot that has no feeling and doesn't care about other countries peoplespoke of people, they show ordinary people like terrorists that if they had a knife they will cut Americans flushes and will eat themin the end I am sorry that they ruined and Academy Awards RELIABILITY and CINEMA with their filthy politics and built a movie on their hate on Iran because they want to be free and doesn't obey America's orders

A huge error in the movie is,, in every airport in the world, if there is a problem, the control tower normally call the plane and stops it. In this movie, this is an error, as the security runs after the plane instead of the control tower ordering the plane to not take off.Otherwise excellent and very interesting movie, but despite there are some technical faults in the movie, its been nominated in Oscars for the big ones. So, that another down side that its very political and show only one side of a particular country.