Oliver Stone's best glimpse into the heart of darkness

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2013)

This film was a great example of what or how the government can use lethal force to kill with extreme prejudice. John F. Kennedy, the greatest president who sought to pull out troops from Vietnam had been gunned down in Texas on Nov 22, 1963. Mainly because of the war mongering generals being upset that their own interests within Vietnam was to establish grounds to test many kinds of new military devices in war. But to do that, they needed a ruse in which to launch their plot, hence the Gulf of Tonken incident. For which even to this day, most military personnel that were at ton-ken, said nothing happened. Not one fire shot, or any weapons discharged to start the war. Now since Kennedy was adamant about pulling out his men, the join chiefs who were involved went to extremes in keeping the gulf open to opportunities. So, in assassinating the president, and having Johnson sworn in soon after the Vietnam war began in full force. Yet behind the lines at home, Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) found enough evidence to bring a certain man to justice by investigating the backgrounds of key individuals in order to show the people a conspiracy of killing the president. Now with his team are Bill Brousard (Micheal Rooker) who at the time was a kind of liaison to the district attorney's office by day, and an FBI agent by night. Through him, his defences had been brought to light because of Garrison's accusations against some key players. However, because of Jim's intellect and instinct found out that Bill was not all that he seemed to be and tried to either kill Garrison, or slow him down long enough to allow the FBI to work up some new evidence in favour of Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones). Now with all of this working against Garrison and his team, Jim, must present evidence to the court of why or how Shaw was involved in killing Kennedy. But to throw a bone in further and to mix up the truth, another of Shaw's men David Ferrie (Joe Pesci) had been cast in as a kind of psychopath, a kind of Castro extremist who was a wing nut by all standards. I thought through the court room scene was the best I have ever witnessed. Oliver stone brought us something for which all people can actually scrutinize and say, Why would someone kill a good man? Why go to the trouble of murdering a president just because the US wanted peace? It was the people this film was directed to, not the government, not the joint chiefs, nor the patsy's. It was the people alone. A great example of casting if I ever saw one, Walter Mathau, Jack Lemmon, John Candy, Donald Sutherland who played a remarkable role as the colonel who retired his position because of high ranking mistakes from the Washington government to protect the president. His key role was astounding in his explanations to why he was transferred to the south pole, or how he figured out in such little time of what was going on in the capital. Ingredients such as this gave this movie an aspiring awe of scope, detail, marvellous acting, and impact scenes for which will give me either simple dreams, or utter nightmares. Our governments cannot be trusted any longer, the machine is too equipped for the people to stop on their own let alone storming the castle. But as history provides us many facts, that a country was built by the people, not the politicians. If there will be a time for the house of cards to tumble, it is going to be sooner than we anticipate. And when it happens, a new era will begin in the human race. To what, we don't know. Excellent film, recommended to all over the age of fourteen.