JFK (Special Edition Director's Cut) - Oliver Stone Collection

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Summary: NEVER WAS MEANT TO BE COMPLETELY FACTUAL!
Review: Mr. Stone accomplished exactly what he started out to do. Bring renewed public interest in the crime of the century. Anyone who watches this film and assumes that everything in it is exactly the way it was, has been led down the wrong path. How could anyone know EXACTLY what was said and done by the conspirators and key players before and after the assassination? Oliver Stone has done an excellent job in his INTERPRETATION of the events surrounding the murder. Those who criticize it are either wearing blinders or are afraid of something. Maybe the truth? Highly recommended to every American citizen.

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Summary: It's about doubt!!
Review: This is an excellent film. Because it makes you think, and rethink, the facts. I don't understand how anyone could be CONVINCED Oswald was the lone gunman. There is so much doubt everywhere you look. And that is ALL Stone asks his audience to do with this film: question the facts as presented by the government, who's case is pretty flimsy. By his own admission, Stone has referred to JFK as an "alternate myth". He doesn't know. But if you look at all the facts, you can't help but be led in other directions. I think he does a pretty good job of busting up the government's story, if not creating his own.

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Summary: Simply Great
Review: It is a haunting tale of the events that led up to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It has great acting, and is a very good representation of Jim Garrison's investigation.

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Summary: One Of The Most Important Films Ever Made.
Review: Oliver Stone's powerful masterpiece, "JFK," is an extremely important film that I believe that everyone should watch. It is a detective story, it looks deep into one of history's greatest engimas. But "JFK" is also a stunning study of politics and power and how power works. Stone's film is full of a lot of information, visual images, interesting dialogue, and opens the mind to thinking and searching. We must not always trust official history. "JFK" displays that evil can also lurk in the most clean-looking places. In this case, our government, our system of power and control. "JFK" is also a technical achievement. The editing, the music, the camera shots are all flawlessly done. I watched "JFK" and never looked at official government explanations the same way again. Look at what recently happened with Waco, now we know that the FBI probably did more wrong than good. "JFK" is a powerful document that should be watched by all Americans who care about the truth, and justice. It should also be seen by all interested in the workings of power.

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Summary: Interesting but implausible
Review: The viewer is left with a lot of questions, the biggest one being: "So, WHO exactly was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy?" Oliver Stone offers an extremely complex, incredibly unconvincing argument that the CIA, exiled Cubans, the Mafia and big business were somehow all involved. William of Occam could offer a much more likely theory, but that story wouldn't have been as interesting. Still worth seeing, but don't take it seriously.

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Summary: Poor history, bad acting, terrible movie
Review: This is truly a bad movie....The historical "premise" is incorrect. JFK expanded the war in Vietnam, and there is no reason to believe that he would have changed his mind if he had not been assasinated. The conspiracy plot is laughable. I did not think it was possible for me to feel sympathy for Lyndon Johnson, a failure as President, but the movie almost invoked those feelings by portraying him as a conspirator against JFK. Kevin Costner is awful as Garrison. His accent is amateurish, for example. Tommy Lee Jones is the only actor who puts in a credible performance.

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Summary: Generation X's Version of JFK's Assassination
Review: As I was not born when Kennedy was killed and therefore have only an academic understanding of those troubled times, this movie struck me as a particularly potent form of propaganda. Perhaps it was the fantastic craftsmanship and skill with which JFK was made that transform it into such a powerful instrument of revisionist history.I am afraid that this will become my generation's only point of reference to this event. We are not, sadly, very well equiped to sort out fact from fiction. JFK is neither balanced, nor fair, but it is mesmerizing and it will probably stand the test of time better than the truth itself.

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Summary: Flawless filmmaking
Review: There are those that criticize JFK, claiming that Oliver Stone disreguarded facts and rewrote history. True or not, this completely misses the point. Stone himself said that his intention in making the film was to get his audience to question authority and think for themselves. The film is presented as one POSSIBLE explanation (a combination of two separate theories) for the unusual events leading to Kennedy's assasination, and it actually raises more questions than it answers. The cast is phenomenal. The award-winning cinematography and editing are groundbreaking to say the least. Despite your opinion of JFK's politics, the film is one of the very, very few that I would dare say is perfect. It is the reason I am a filmmaker, and is worth every second you spend watching it. You will never forget it.

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Summary: A wonderful movie that brings you back to 1963!
Review: JFK was an excellent movie. It brings you straight into 1963 and gives you such vivid descriptions of what happened to our late President. A must see... even if you are not interested in history.

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Summary: JFK??? You mean "Dallas in Wonderland"
Review: The movie "JFK" is an excellent example of what happens when non-historians attempt to write history: the fact get sacrificed for the entertainment. Oliver Stone is no dummy however. He knows that no one would pay to see a movie that revealed that Lee Harvey Oswald actually WAS the guilty person who shot and killed President Kennedy. Sadly, this movie runs fast and free with the historical facts. Virtually every "mysterious" detail Stone brings up has a very simple and logical explanation. Has Stone pricked the national conscience with this movie? Perhaps, but more importantly he has used his artistic liscence to put a twist (Oliver's Twist) on what really happened that tragic day in Dallas. Those who haven't read a great deal about the Kennedy assassination will swallow his conspiracy nonsense hook, line, and sinker. Those more familiar with the actual facts will roll their eyes and sigh that any educated person could believe such nonsense.