Boom, look at his head blow! (JFK (DVD))

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Product:	JFK (DVD)
Date:	04/09/01 (41 review reads)
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Advantages: acting, script

Disadvantages: bit long.

This is one of the last good films Oliver Stone made before going off the deep end ("Natural Born Killers, U-Turn.") The main problem I have with this movie is the fact that it is based on two conspiracy books and Oliver Stone's own opinion. As we all know he tells stories that are based on real-life, but he adds his own twist to get his two cents in. Not that any movie is 100% accurate and true to life.


I thought everything about this movie was good, acting, cinematography, the wonderful cast, and the story was good, just not too believeable. One of the highlights of this movie is the way that stock footage is interspersed with the film shot for the movie. Stone was also able to get people who looked a lot like the real people to play Oswald, Ruby, Warren, etc.

I also liked how he shot some of his own footage to compensate for the angles you cannot see in these old films. He did a good job of making them look like they were old movies drudged up from some basement or filing cabinet. The main part of the story that is hard to swallow is the fact that many of the people who talked to Garrison and his staff were never recorded or went on the record. We are asked to believe solely what he found out even though he has no proof.

I did like the way he summed up everything that he had discovered in the climax, it is a very good, (and long), monologue. This is a good movie to watch with someone who does or doesn't believe in the JFK conspiracy.

You will probably end up arguing for hours.

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