A film not worth buying - but watch if free or if obsessed with her - we learn little of them in this

Rating: 3/10 (8 June 2017)

I'm English and so came to this with a limited history for a person my age(born after in mid 60s).
This film can only be described as turgid. It's hard to get through. Never makes you bored but, at the same time, I can't remember a minute where I was enthusiastically watching.
It left me thinking the Kennedy family were so much more than the front they showed - but in a bad way. Jackie was materialistic, and more interested in how she and her husband would be viewed than anything else - sometimes even to the point of exploiting or ignoring her children as she thought fitted the mood.
In clips thought the portrayal looked as if it Oscar flavour but it was the same acting for 90 minutes. And the casting irritated me - Jackie Kennedy was NOT a skinny stick-lady. She was thin. She was a normally shaped woman as was the norm in the 60s. Not skinny or boney. There are plenty of non-skinny women that could have pulled this off. Casting was off.
On the plus side the directing was good considering the lack of real content. 'Jackie' does seem to be different with her kids. But pre-assassination she sometimes seems to be as distant as if he was dead already. Maybe that was planned.
Disappointing film. Alround, to be honest... No special cinematography when it could have made it better. Blame the director I suppose but I'd ask why the producers bothered making this screenplay.