jfk (1991)

Rating: 10/10 (5 September 2011)

"The government is gonna jump all over your head, Jimbo, and go cock-a-doodle-doo."
This is the story of D.A. Jim Garrison, as he tries to unravel the mystery behind the Kennedy assassination. The movie has brilliant directing, a great script and excellent acting.
Director Oliver Stone directs this epic. The presentation takes more than three hours, and is a torrent of information, faces and places, mixing in together. The past, the present and even the future are there, in slow motion, in home video, in black and white, in color and in any other disposition.
The script is a collection of all and every single conspiracy theory ever proposed on the subject. There are countless people telling their story, and there are countless versions of the same truth - or lie. The viewer is walked through a whole exposition of different angles, different bits and pieces and different people. No one is left aside, be it an outstanding member of society or not.
The acting talent assembled for this movie is just incredible. Kevin Costner, Jay Sanders, Gary Oldman, Michael Rooker, Laurie Metcalf, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, and the list goes on and on. But above all - the biggest actor - is the TV.
JFK. Big. 20/10.