Did I see the same movie?

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2005)

I keep wondering if I watched the same movie as everyone else...
And it's not just that I didn't care for the film. Different strokes, after all.
What I just can't get my head around are the reasons people give for why they believe JFK is a masterpiece...
First of all, I keep hearing people say that JFK is a masterful organization of complex information. It seemed to me that Stone just threw together every conceivable disjointed theory - in no particular order or organization - and doesn't even tell us which one is the right one. I mean, at the end of the movie, I couldn't even say who I thought I was SUPPOSED to believe actually killed JFK. Was it LBJ? The mafia? The Dallas police force?... Joe Pesci? Second of all, people who never believed that anyone besides Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK say that - after seeing this movie - they are now ardent believers that there actually was a conspiracy. Well, in my book, the movie pretty much demonstrated that all the conspiracy theories are the result of a lot of people looking very hard for evidence to support their theories - and eventually finding this "evidence" in everyday events and coincidences.
From a statistical point of view, the Bermuda Triangle has no greater incidence of lost ships and planes than any other area of the ocean. It's just that - once people started looking in that particular area - the Triangle began to seem like the disappearance capital of the world.
In the case of JFK, it seemed that Stone proved by example that - if you look hard enough - you can come up with evidence to support the theory that Santa Clause was behind JFK's assassination.
It seems to me that - after watching JFK, you either have to come to the conclusion that a) everyone in the known universe (except, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald) was in on the assassination, or b) that pretty much all of the conspiracy theories are the result of overactive imaginations.
The only points I give to JFK are for effort and for an impressive cast.
I give it 3 out of 10.