Highly recommended viewing

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2006)

The film goes some way in exposing the killers of Kennedy, and their motives. As a dramatisation of history it is very successful, but it is eclipsed by the documentary JFK:The Bush Connection, which adopts a no-holds barred approach in naming the main perpetrators of the murder. The acting performances in JFK are superb, the late John Candy displaying his best ever film character performance. The cinematography is excellent, and the film editing, incorporating documentary film which segues seamlessly with Oliver Stone's shots, is absolutely brilliant. The use of music and sound effects heightens the drama at the appropriate moments and is used very selectively to attain Stone's desired result. The abridgement of such a wealth of post-Kennedy information in regard to Kennedy's murder is a task in which Stone was quite successful, but like Mark Lane, author of Plausible Denial, I felt Stone did not go far enough in pointing the finger of accusation at Howard Hunt who was shown to be one of the organisers of the assassination team in an American court of law. It is a film that will upset many in high places as it gets too near to the truth for their liking.