Excellent true-to-life portrayal!

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2006)

This movie was an edge-of-the-seat thriller from the opening scene to the final footage! Excellent portrayals of all the main characters including Bruce Greenwood as JFK, Steven Culp as RFK, and Kevin Costner as Kenny O'Donnell. The other supporting actors really played their parts well - I felt like I was right in the situation room at the White House! Proof of how good a movie this was is the fact that besides a couple of short action shots involving the planes and missiles, most of the movie was dialog. The portrayal of the actual events of the Cubam Missile Crisis was true to historical fact, and the main impetus of the movie was how the various characters interacted. Everyone should see this movie, especially those who were not around in 1962!