Felt like a Fortnight

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2001)

See "The Missles of October". The older movie, with William Devane, is pretty crude and the acting is variable (veterans like Ralph Bellamy, Howard da Silva and John Dehner are excellent; whereas Martin Sheen,
playing Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General who authorized wiretaps on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gives a performance good mainly for laughs).
Though not so egregiously antihistorical as Oliver Stone's fictions (JFK, Nixon), "Thirteen Days" is nevertheless misleading. The bad guys seem to be members of the U.S. military complex, defending American freedom, rather than members of the "evil empire" who were setting up missiles deliberately and stealthily to threaten democracy.
Since the Soviet Union is dead and its revealed documents have shown
that everything we feared from them in the Cold War was true, isn't it ok to let them be the threats to democracy and civilization that they were, rather than U.S. "hawks"?