America On The Brink!

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2001)

Even Kevin Costner affecting the worst New England accent in movie history can't ruin this stunningly written, acted and directed docudrama about the Cuban Missle Crisis in October 1962 when the world for the first time literally stood on the brink of nuclear destruction.
One wonders what might have happened if a different kind of man were President at the time....a weaker man who might have led the military run roughshod over him or a "cowboy hawk" who believed risking nuclear annihilation a test of macho herosim.
JFK (superbly played by Bruce Greenwood) emerges in the film as an intelligent thougtful man faced with an awesome responsibility.
Though Coster is top billed, it's Greenwood's sensitive, self effacing performance that is the real center of the film.
"Thirteen Days" takes some harrowing real life events and turns them into a riveting political thriller.
Oliver Stone would do well to take a cue from "Thirteen Days."