An important motion picture for those who demand the truth.

Rating: Null/10 (19 October 2003)

One of my favorite real mystery thrillers about who actually shot President John F. Kennedy. Oliver Stone directed this wonderfully crafted and creative look about the long list of suspects involved on that day back in November of 1963. Kevin Costner plays real life district attorney Jim Garrison who heads his own investigation into finding what the reason was for murdering the great President and who really did it, was it really Lee Harvey Oswald?, or was it the mafia, CIA, Russians, Cubans or our own US Government? We might never know, but as American people, we demand the truth. Gary Oldman plays Lee Harvey Oswald excellently, it's almost as if the real Oswald was 'resurrected' sort of speak, I was amazed on how much similarity there was between Oldman and Oswald. Tommy Lee Jones (who recieved a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination) plays the New Orleans openly gay albino Clay Shaw who is also accused of ploting to kill Kennedy while Joe Pesci turns in a fine role as the crazy David Ferrie who also seems to be involved. The film includes an all-star cast including Sissy Spacek, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Rooker, Wayne Knight, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jay O. Sanders and Vincent D'Onofrio as well as surprising and effective five to ten minute cameos by Kevin Bacon, John Candy, Edward Asner, Sally Kirkland, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Donald Sutherland and Brian Doyle Murray who also turns in an excellent role as night club owner Jack Ruby, the notorious man who eventually murdered Oswald. Although I wasn't alive when Kennedy was shot, I enjoyed the film because it gives people who weren't around hope and dignity to find the truth. As a result of this film, Congress passed documents that such case files as the assasination of JFK could be avialible to the American public in the year 2029. Every time I watch this film, I can see the heartbreak and tragedy of the American people who watched a great leader like JFK being shot, but maybe one day, the real truth will be out and I think that is something that JFK would want the American people to know.