The rating of 6.9 is about right.

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2017)

I was blown away by the extraordinary job Natalie Portman did. I put off seeing Jackie because i didn't think Natalie could 'do' Jackie Kennedy. Wow, she had the voice, cadence, movements, gestures, EVERYTHING, down perfectly. Of course , the whole show is a fantasy. Movies are fantasies put on the screen. This show isn't a documentary or even approaching such. John Kennedy was beautifully cast and wasn't heard of much as it should be since the flick is about Jackie. The whole smoking bit was overdone. Bobby Kennedy was poorly cast but he did a good job. A critic here said 'cold' as describing the show. That's good word to describe the whole fiasco. I don't know who the director is but i'm sure he's a 'kid'. Nobody, in the film is 'old enough' to capture the times or people of the times just like the Iraq War generation has no clue what the Vietnam War was like. The Vietnam era has passed and nobody who wasn't alive during that period can feel or understand what we had going then. Youth, and oldsters alike who are 'observing' the Iraq stuff and Afghan stuff are 'far removed' from 'getting involved. The cell phone, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, digital generation just can't 'feel' and 'think' with 'insight'. They can't even communicate on a 'real level'. I'm so glad i lived in the Bill Halley and the Comets, Chuck Berry times. Back then we 'tuned in and dropped out'. Nowadays, people have 'tuned out and dropped out' and don't even know they are 'out of it'. On one level 'Jackie' is a joke. There's little 'real' about it other than Portman's acting is 'real good'. I didn't even come close to shedding a tear and there was no humor in the flick. The show was a dry , stilted view of the whole time. The walk with the priest was ludicrous. The show honed in a time of Jackie's life we can't come close to acting out on screen. None of us knew what she was like nor will we. Michelle Williams portrayal of Marylin Monroe was awesome but not reality. I love shows about people who we cherished or hated but have always wondered if we don't do them a disservice by trying to 'capture them on screen' by creating this 'unreal' creature planting the idea in others mind that the person, in reality, was anything like their portrayal. Movies are fantasy , made up stories. There's , presently , a boom in Winston Churchill portrayals. I guess i sound sour and old but, wow, from this old duffer's point of view this is a narrow, restricted view of Jackie's life. I wanted the show to be about 'Jackie's life not this one tiny segment of her life where she wasn't herself but showing her when they first got together and her getting together with Onasis. I think Tycoon was a fun romp at what Jackie may have been like. She makes a comment about women and power and 'going to bed' with men which was cute. Gees, the acting by Portman was a great exercise , great self indulgence , a romp , an escape from reality. Only those who lived through those times can understand. Youth nowadays would rather play video games than do anything important such as getting off their bottoms and protesting risking getting hit in the head with a belly club. If during the Vietnam War, we had the same young generation we have now, we'd still be at War. 'Jackie' was fine acting but limited in scope.