JFK

Pros: Cinematography, Editing, Score
Cons: Doesn't differentiate between history and speculation

JFK (1991) “Help, I'm stepping into the Twilight Zone The place is a mad-house, feels like being cloned My beacon's been moved under moon and star Where am I to go now that I've gone too far? … Soon you will come to know When ...

Pros: acting, setting, commentary
Cons: sometimes tries too hard to be convincing, can be hard to follow, length

As of late, I've become more and more intrigued with the investigation behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Those reasons are largely due to a personal connection I have to the investigation. I like to view various movies and ...

Pros: Slick cinematography, great editing, fine cast, and a John Williams score
Cons: Twists facts to fit Stone's conspiracy beliefs

One of the consequences of the shoddy and – let’s be frank here – boring manner in which American history has been taught in our schools is that most of us acquire most of our “knowledge” about historical figures and/or events from ...

Pros: A brilliantly made film..
Cons: ..with some very questionable conclusions

There can be few directors who polarize critical opinion like Oliver Stone. One the one hand some people will tell you he's a film-making genius exposing the dark secrets and deep corruption at the heart of the American dream, while others regard him as ...

Pros: Great editing and cinematography, good performances, intriguing
Cons: Well, you know...

Remember, there's THE TRUTH (Shakes head with a menacing look) and "the truth". (Shakes head with a happy look on his face) - Lionel Hutz, "The Simpsons" We all know what happened on November 22, 1963. It has become as much a part of ...

Pros: Brilliantly shot and edited film of six possible variations on a plot to kill JFK.
Cons: Cleansing of DA Garrison's character and Costner's performance undercut last 20 minutes.

What Assassins did to President John F. Kennedy in about six seconds at Dallas nearly 40 years ago, Director Oliver Stone does in just under seven minutes for his 1991 film JFK, mostly behind the credits. Remarkably, only a half a minute of that ...

Pros: Grim vibe. Jones, Pesci, and Oldman. Informative telling of a now well-known theory.
Cons: I don't normally like my movies this long and educational. Costner's a tool.

My feeling is this: if you’re meant to see a movie, hear a band, or see the beauty in a painting, it’ll happen in its own time. I’m so used to being the guy in the room who still hasn’t seen Forrest Gump or heard most of The Beatles’ catalogue ...

Pros: I find this section redundant.
Cons: This one as well.

Don DeLillo (who wrote a speculative account of Lee Harvey Oswald's life entitled Libra) called Oliver Stone's JFK "like Disneyland for conspiracy theorists."  And he was quite right.  If you are looking for an analysis of this film's accuracy ...

Pros: The greatest cast in history; Compelling; Will change the way you think
Cons: Not for casual viewing; homophobic; self-important

The assassination of John F. Kennedy is one of the profound moments in American history. Sometimes, it’s difficult to understand why, seeing as how I was born long after it happened. It might have been the first sign of the cynicism about politics and...

Pros: Makes you think, brings clarity, great script, acting, and directing
Cons: Just that it is a long movie...but rightfully so

Do you have questions about John F. Kennedy's assassination? Are you unsure if it was a conspiracy? If one man acted alone? If our government, the United States government played a part in killing one of their own, their commander in chief,...

Pros: acting and story line
Cons: none

I was a senior in high school when JFK was murdered. This was the first president I was going to be able to vote for and I was excited. To have been alive and old enough to realize what was going on during this tumultuous era was very eerie. There was...

Pros: A brilliantly constructed collage/montage/monograph reflecting on the century's most famous assassination
Cons: Some bad calls by Stone for his Director's Cut

Film critics who ply their trade as armchair historians usually despise Oliver Stone's JFK. Not because of the facts it puts on the screen, but because of the fiction. The Kennedy assassination is a subject that so infuriates people --...

Pros: gary oldman
Cons: conspiracy theory sometimes goes too far

I LOVE Gary Oldman and that is probably the #1 reason I went to see this movie. He always seems to transform himself into whatever character he plays (i.e., "Sid and Nancy"). So I couldn't wait to see how he did as Lee Harvey Oswald. (He did...

Pros: cast, editing, cinematography
Cons: spreads paranoid propaganda, homophobic, bogus

Detractors of JFK have compared the film with the notorious Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will. The comparison is unfair, since Jim Garrison wasn't Adolf Hitler, and Garrison is depicted as human (although heroic).

But it...

Pros: it does eventually end
Cons: mostly cons

If I could only give you one word to describe this film, the word would be "long" and by that I mean really, really long! It is no accident that long describes Oliver Stone's rambling diatribe. Diatribe is another good word to describe most of...