Slow, boring and a story not worthy of a film

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2019)

I had mixed thoughts about watching this film fearing that there would not be a story to be told, and my concerns were well founded. Yes it was an event that shocked the world, I can't imagine what it must have been like for Jackie Kennedy to experience the death of her husband in that way, so close up and brutally (although she is far from unique in having such an experience), but the film neither captured the horror of if, didn't explore the grief in a way that involved me as the viewer, and in the end had very little to say. Not a disaster but equally not worthy of the high scores that some reviews have given in. The performances were adequate without being outstanding, and perhaps a different style of directing might have made it more watchable and engaging, but in the end I was just bored by it all.