Completely Scatterbrained

Rating: 3/10 (7 February 2017)

"Jackie" is one of, if not the most scatterbrained movie I have ever watched in my life. It is so incoherently put together and flawed in almost every department of its making that I'm convinced the person who made this might not have even a rudimentary understanding of filmmaking.
The movie focuses on Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) mere days after her husband's assassination as she explains what happened over the following days to a reporter (Billy Crudup).
Almost everything about this movie is off and fundamentally flawed. The cinematography is obviously trying to be stylistic, but it does not fit and makes some scenes look downright atrocious. The editing in this movie is awful. The sound editing does not blend well with the movie, and a number of scenes are edited to have jump cuts that negatively affect the scene. Natalie Portman's acting is better than it has been in other roles, but she is still not believable, and she can't pull off Jackie Kennedy's accent. The story is about an interesting and iconic individual, and is based completely around her planning her husband's funeral. The movie is told non chronologically, but the order of the scenes and how flashbacks are set up really don't have much correlation with one another and were just arbitrarily placed throughout the movie's story line.
The only good things I can really say about the movie is that the writing was decent, it included a few interesting details about Jackie Kennedy and the events following JFK's assassination, and there was great attention to the film's aesthetics.