Great movie and Great performance by Natalie Portman

Rating: 7/10 (25 February 2017)

At first I though I was going to hate it. From the moment the movie started I got this idea that I would have to love the Kennedys in order to like the movie, and I don't like the Kennedys, don't hate them, don't really have an real opinion on them, but this movie was going to give me that opinion from Jackie's point of view of being high class and very Self absorbed.
My feeling on this has not change but I feel the movie is more about the great transformation Natalie Portman made for her performance as Jackie O. It was really good and almost up there with Daniel Day Lewis' Run as Abraham Lincoln in the movie Lincoln and Meryl Streep in her run as Margaret Thatcher in the Iron Lady.
Unlike the Iron Lady, Portman has to give her performance in a film that was actually pretty good. It's amazing what we can do with technology these days as the filmmakers used it wisely to put us in the early 60s during the Kennedy assassination.
What I also liked about the movie was how the music set the tone of the stage the performers were playing in. Peter Sarsgaard also did a great job playing Robert Kennedy.
So while I was not oozing over the topic or anything, Natalie Portman gave a fine performance as Jackie in a film that looks beautiful.
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