Pure Propaganda...Bad Direction

Rating: 2/10 (2 September 2015)

There are two major aspects of this movie that I reviled: 1.) It is pure propaganda, just for the sake of creating "good guys and bad guys". I am surprised that Hollywood, in the year 2000, produced such a re-visitation of a 1950's way of thinking. The movie did not, for one second, admit that the U.S. had medium range nuclear missiles in W. Germany, aimed at Russia and had a similar strike time reaction-window as that which had the U.S. government tearing their hair out and running around like sissies. How do we think the Russians must have felt?! Now, today, the U.S. missiles are in Poland... 500 miles closer to Russia!! This movie is so one-sided that I would have thought it was manufactured by the Department of Defense or the U.S. Marines. It is abyssymal and inexcuseable. The second facet of Thirteen Days that I found unacceptable (and made it unwatchable, for me)was Kevin Costner's crazy, warped, overdone accent. Now, I was born and raised in Boston. I spent the first 50 years of my life there, beginning in 1957. I have never hear anyone speak like Costner did in this picture. It is as though he was trying to do "President Kennedy times two". If I were the person playing JFK in the picture, I would have turned to Kostner at one point and said, "Why are you talking like that? Are you trying to mock me?" Evidentally, Kostner figured he was the star of the movie and did everything he could to attract attention to himself. honestly, his "accent" is the biggest direction gaffe I have ever seen in a movie. It was just insane.