Excellent film!

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2008)

I saw this for the first time just after Christmas (it was a present). I was in bed ill for two weeks before Christmas and spent a lot of time on YouTube. I happened upon the Zapruder footage and then watched lots of things relating to the assassination. I knew I had to see Oliver Stone's film once interested.
I loved it. It runs at such a fast pace and I found myself on the edge of my seat as DA Jim Garrison (played wonderfully by Kevin Costner) and his team uncover events and leads that all point to a sinister plot to murder John F. Kennedy in 1963. Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pesci are utterly brilliant. Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald left me speechless - a British actor playing one of (if not) the most notorious alleged killers in US history and he pulled it off beautifully.
The scene between Costner and Donald Sutherland as "X" - a former Pentagon official is one of the best scenes of cinema. The editing is sublime and Sutherland's delivery of crucial information is breathtaking.
The ending left me angry and dissatisfied that nobody has ever been prosecuted for this awful crime. The US lost a great President but Jackie lost her husband and two very young children their father. And for what, I ask?...
Watch it. It is incredible.