Too long.

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2014)

This is a well crafted film, but at 189 minutes, I think it could have used serious editing. I can handle 90 minutes to 2 hours if it is a really good film, but at 3 hours, I'm done before it is. There are plenty of conspiracy theories about JFK out there but I'm not really interested in them. This film informs, but it also expects too much from the viewer. I can remember reading about the now famous speech given by JFK in Germany where he accidentally called himself a cocktail-when what he really meant was to compliment Germany by saying today he was a German-by way of identifying himself as a citizen of Berlin. As a compliment to Berliner's. And to all German's. What he had technically had said was: 'I'm your not secret undercover German President of the USA.' That's a much more strange verbal concoction than accidentally called himself a "cocktail." Nobody ever talks about that. He could have just said 'I thank you all for being so welcoming to me on my trip to Germany.' I think it was a long succession of verbal gaffs like "the Berliner bit" that ultimately caused the assassination of JFK. In terms of conspiracy theories I don't know if saying a thing was probably caused by something actually qualifies as a conspiracy theory since I have no theory as to what that idea might entail. Specifically. The film JFK doesn't add to anything in terms of the story of what happened to JFK. We know he was shot & killed. We know they figured out who shot & killed him not long after he was shot & killed. We also know the guy that shot & killed him was himself shot & killed not long after he was taken in by the authorities. End of story. Knew all that stuff ages before the JFK movie came out. So did everybody else and his brother.