Superb!

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2002)

I looked at this film, expecting it be good and was quite surprised to find it is EXCELLENT. A superb and compelling piece of work! It is historically accurate. It does not sentimentalize the Kennedies or even over dramatize a very dramatic and dangerous moment of history. The actors and the props both look right whether it's a Dean Rusk ringer or a 1960 style desk telephone set. And the story captures the very real tension that gripped the world that autumn. At the same time it does not portray JFK as the saviour of humanity as have so many other accounts. This is a big movie, big in scope, in production and in length --- two and a half hours --- but it never lags! Wonder if they'll do as well in forty years when they shoot a movie about Guilliani and the WTC...