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I’ll let you know how it is: I’ve seen a lot of people who I like seeing being pissed off about things being pissed off about this movie, which is a point in its favor.
[UPDATE]: …Not bad; not bad at all. If it has a flaw it’s in the initial portrayal of the background conflict between the USA and the new revolutionary regime in Iran; the raw details are accurate enough, but they were perhaps too filtered through a post-Cold War sensibility. It’s easy for modern audiences to forget that, back in 1979, we were not only in the middle of a vicious and unrelenting ideological struggle for world domination; the general consensus was a glum certainty that our side was losing. If you were born before 1984 or so, I cannot begin to describe just how transformational Ronald Reagan was on our geopolitical perceptions.
But all of this is just a minor comment. Ben Affleck knows how to direct a movie.