A Brief Reminder

Rating: Null/10 (26 March 2013)

Regardless of the politics, this is a powerful movie. The acting is first-rate, along with production values that insist on actual locales where possible. Three hours is a burden on the rear end no matter how good the film, but this one manages to hold attention throughout. The Kennedy assassination continues to fascinate, I think, because of the many threads running through it that point in several different directions.
The movie itself makes a strong case for a government-led conspiracy. A brief review, however, is hardly the place to argue the merits of Garrison's case or conspiracy in general. Nonetheless, the movie succeeds in bringing to popular attention a number of holes in the Warren Commission's lone assassin theory.
Crucially, however, it's well to keep in mind that filmmaking is an art and by its nature art deals with images. Now, images can be a reflection of reality, and in that sense function as an expression of truth. But imagery, of course, is not reality itself. As a result, art as a source of truth about the world, has an inbuilt limitation.
I mention this caveat only as a general caution about movies in general, and not to discredit this film in particular. All in all, I think the movie represents pretty powerfully many of the key facts of key eyewitnesses involved in the most intriguing murder case of the century. Thus, the film should not be missed, whatever one's persuasion.