...en meget velbalanceret filmoplevelse, der beviser at komik sagtens kan integreres i en ellers alvorlig skildring af en berømt historisk krise.

Affleck fortæller den utrolige historie med en stilfornemmelse og en sans for temposkift, som selv garvede Hollywood-instruktører må misunde ham.

Affleck has taken an unbelievable slice of reality and miraculously improved upon the truth, and the results could hardly be more satisfying.

It is so easy to manufacture a thriller from chases and gunfire, and so very hard to fine-tune it out of exquisite timing and a plot that's so clear to us we wonder why it isn't obvious to the Iranians.

Ben Affleck's electrically suspenseful, cunningly original true-life thriller, is the rare movie that has great fun while touching a raw political nerve.