Fascinating thriller appeals to our conspiracy hunger...

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2001)

Stone's interpretation of the facts surrounding the JFK-case may not be 100% accurate...he surely delivers in creating an awe-inspiring thriller full of famous actors delivering some of the most wonderful performances of a group of star-actors in just one film...take The GodFather for example...
In this movie we get Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker, Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek all delivering a memorable performance....to my opinion though the best performance is given by Joe Pesci as the neurotic highly edgy, and bordering on the edge of the insane David Ferrie (with indeed incredible wig!)....this is Pesci acting as he never did before...especially the 'interrogation'-scene in the hotel room...
JFK is Oliver Stone's view of the facts surrounding the Assassination...I read one of the two books it was based on, the Jim Garrison book about the assassination and the film follows the book quite well...actually, the title of the movie should have been: 'Jim Garrison: how I think Kennedy was killed'...
The film talks about one of the biggest mysteries in American history and is therefore bound to be the subject of speculation...some say, Stone doesn't report the facts or better yet, his movie is almost complete fiction!
What people are forgetting is that this is not Stone's vision but Garrison's vision MADE INTO A MOVIE by Stone...and as Garrison was one of the people who did the most thorough investigation into this whole case I think that the representation of the facts herein are pretty close to the truth, or at least from Jim Garrison's and Oliver Stone's point of view!
Now let's see who's going to make the first movie portraying the "magic-bullet-theory"!