The story of the CIA agent who helped 6 (mostly very young) US diplomats get out of Iran in 1980. There are actually people out there, doing this kind of stuff.  Makes you kind of think your life is boring… but perhaps glad your life is boring.

I liked the tone of this – they didn’t overdo the drama, yet it was dramatic all the same. We all know what happens, but we’re still worried for the characters. I have to wonder how this movie would play back in Iran though. What would the people there today think of it?  The diplomats didn’t really commit any crime, so it’s not like they really got away with anything. In fact, if they’d given themselves up, they would probably have been released a number of months later, along with the rest of the hostages (of course, they didn’t know this at the time). So, at the end, is all we can do shrug our shoulders?