There was no plot

Rating: 1/10 (13 April 2008)

I am entitled to submit fresh new comments about Stone's JFK. This film had managed to collect two Oscar awards due to the fact that it is well made and the reconstructed 1960s scenes are very good featuring Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, the DA in "search for a truth" in the wake of the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Since Garrison arrived at the scene, these terrible events at Dallas had since then been a subject for conspiracy theories and it intensified when this film came out 28 years later. In spite of all those endless conspiracy theories about the assassination, it seems obvious there was no conspiracy. Now what about the film itself? Being directed by Oliver Stone, many of Oliver Stone's films focusing real life events have since then become subjects for love/hate theories and JFK is a classic example due to the fact that it is notorious for lots of inaccuracies as shown on such website; The Assassination Goes To Hollywood. The film is also misleading for the showing of Garrison as a hero "searching for the truth" but by the look of the real Garrison, he was actually some sort of oddball probably seeking publicity. Even the weaknesses of Stone's JFK can be traced to its filming stages when the press began to get their claws out claiming Garrisons's investigations to be a fraud and saying that Garrison was a bizarre DA from New Orleans whom said that the assassination was carried out as part of the CIA cover-up, he even managed to put a hapless man on trial. Not surprisingly, Garrison having no case lost in court. At nearly 3.5 hours in length, the film is too long and had initially became a turn-off by some family members due to considerable use of bad language. It seems to be without doubt that with a twisted mind, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and had once attempted to assassinate General Edwin Walker. Oswald took employment at Deeley Plaza and some close-up cine clips on the youtube website of the shooting showed that it can only come from that direction and not from Grassy Knoll as the film seems to claim. Oswald gained shooting skills while serving as a marine that took him to the early days of the Cold War regime in the Soviet Union and was the only known person to have bolted from Deeley Plaza shortly after the shooting and had been initially been charged with the murder of JD Tippit and then Kennedy. Police Officer Jim Leavelle whom escorted Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was in turn shot by Jack Ruby pointed out that these shootings happened in bizarre circumstances (I would say) and added that there was no conspiracy. Leavelle also went onto say that much of these dismissed conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination were mostly by those whom weren't even born at that time. Oliver Stone's JFK may have been well made as already stated and well-received by film critics along with the conspiracy geeks while disappointed historians dismiss it for being deliberately misleading. While sounding believing true, the endless conspiracy theories (or a plot) are just based on pure speculation. As already stated, these events of 1963 just happened in bizarre circumstances. Now will we leave Kennedy rest in peace.