Excellent character study w/interesting if not altogether right.

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2008)

I will start by saying that I am not sure what exactly the truth is about the assassination of JFK. There are many theories and many conspiracy theories and tons of inaccuracies & probably some cover-ups as well. I will say that I am not a conspiracy nut like all of those that think we didn't land on the moon, (those that believe otherwise well I'm sorry you are just ignorant, try studying history please) that the Holocaust didn't happen, & that 9/11 was somehow caused by something other than terrorists. I do believe that just like this excellent film says there were perhaps other people and things that caused the killing of JFK. I consider myself a very well read historian (especially WWII) and of all of the big events that have happened in history, I am most unsure about the ACTUAL truth about JFK. Just as Oliver Stone says in this overlong film, he has some pretty ridiculous & extremely far-fetched ideas, but he also has some excellent points & just how bad the investigation was & how quickly just 1 man was blamed for the death of the president. It seems very unlikely that Lee Harvey Oswald was solely responsible. It probably isn't true that Cuba had so much involvement into what happened, but it is very interesting that Oswald himself was killed by Jack Ruby before he could speak everything that he might have known. If you are a conspiracy nut and believe everything is a conspiracy well I guess you have to have something to live for & I'm sure you will think that Stone has everything correct in this mostly fictional but very well written and thought out movie. So enjoy this for what it is, but please form your own opinion & actually study the facts. I have a feeling that what had happened had a lot to do w/ JFK's ideas & his dealings with the fiasco that was the bay of pigs & the whole situation with the U.S.S.R & the failed plot to kill Castro & overthrow communism everywhere we felt threatened.