Bad.

Rating: 2/10 (14 March 2017)

This movie was pretty awful. It painted Jackie as a complete doofus. The continually subtle condescending attitude of the journalist Billy Crudup did everything to keep that a constant theme of this movie. You can see a smug smile in his eyes with almost every question he asks her... as if he's talking to one of the dumbest people on the planet, not the wife of a fallen beloved-by-the-entire-nation, renowned president. Nothing in this movie empowers this poor woman, even her repeated salty remarks to the journalist aren't given respect by him. She is portrayed as vain, boring, predictable. I was expecting a movie that bears her name to show her full complexities, instead it simplifies her. There really isn't a plot, it's extremely straight linear, no falls, no lifts. This whole movie is basically closeups of sad face and crying. Nothing happens that we aren't already aware of, it deals with drawn-out moments before the assassination, the assassination, and the burial. Also, the soundtrack is a minor form of torture. Portman's accent is like a train wreck you can't look away from. Boring. I'm trying to watch a second time to make sure I don't fully dislike it but it's not working.