Transparent propaganda

Rating: 4/10 (17 February 2020)

Despite an all-star cast with some very good performances, this film is hobbled by endless monologuing, the story getting dragged down by having every conspiracy theory connected to the Kennedy assassination jammed into it, a clear bias and willingness to bend the truth or make up details entirely, a score that transparently tries to manipulate the viewer's emotions, and a courtroom trial that is nothing more than director Oliver Stone trying to indict the United States government rather than a prosecutor trying to lay out a case against the defendant. Despite never had any particular opinion in any direction about the Kennedy assassination, I came out of this fairly well convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and only cranks would think otherwise, precisely the opposite of what was intended.