Technically good but.......

Rating: Null/10 (4 September 2002)

Having read very little about the Kennedy assasination before watching JFK, this film achieved its goal in getting me interested in the subject. Oliver Stone's blending of archival footage within the movie really gives the film an authentic semi-documentary style that makes his depiction of events very persuasive. Luckily for me I spent the next several weeks reading up on the assasination as otherwise I would have believed the paranoid rantings of Oliver Stone where in fact the truth. His portrayal of Jim Garrison (who actually accused Robert Kennedy of being an accessory after the fact of his own brother's murder) is wrong on so many levels and makes Oliver Stone look foolish in documenting his illogical theories.
Some people say that Oliver Stone was courageous in making this movie, I believe he took the easy way out. Since the majority of people a) believe there was a conspiracy or b) want to believe there was a conspiracy, pandering to these beliefs with a fictional account of a conspiracy of the grandest of scales is not the hallmark of a brave man. Making a big-budget movie that portrayed Oswald as a lone gunman would have been truly courageous.