A Dangerous Film, to be Viewed with Caution

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2006)

Oliver Stone is a brilliant film maker. There's no doubt about that. But if you'll notice, this movie is not a documentary. It's a dramatic story, and it's a lot farther from the truth than you'd think. I'm not talking about the theory being wrong, because it's never been disproven; I mean that some of the "facts" that it presents are simply false. I'll give some examples: 1. Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't a very good shot.
This is just wrong. Oswald was a sniper in the Marines, and I saw a documentary where someone read off of his training log. Shooting at a target of similar size to Kennedy's body and at twice the distance, he hit 48/50. On another day, he hit 49/50 under the same circumstances.
2. Garrison's moving speech.
This never happened. In real life, Garrison had absolutely no evidence against Shaw and therefore had no case.
3. A large amount of the "actual" footage of the assassination.
Stone, being a brilliant film maker, combined reenactments with real footage to create his own images.
Now I'm not saying this was a bad movie; it was excellent, but this movie is the last place you should look in deciding who you think shot the president.