Of interest only to conspiracy buffs.

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2003)

At the beginning of Cocteau's "La Belle et La Bete," the director asks us to suspend our disbelief and to become child-like in order to fully enjoy the film. Stone asks much the same of us here.
I know that I will not be able to convince any conspiracy buffs that there are any factual errors in this film. After all, if you set the bar for evidence sufficiently low, then you can prove anything you care to.
This film achieve its effectiveness simply by dramatizing "evidence" in the most non-critical way. You can see the same thing done in reruns of "Unsolved Mysteries." The producers of both this movie and that TV show have the luxury of re-enacting the incidents in any manner they choose. Indeed, this is exactly what you experience when you watch this movie. You have the continuous feeling that you are part of a "big act" that is constructed to ensure that you believe the party line. The movie is really that unsubtle.
(And I have to say that some of the other reviewers appear to have a rather odd definition of "fact.")
Oliver Stone has done some outstanding work directing and writing. I hope that he will not be remembered for this voyage into what is basically yellow journalism.
* out of ****