Excellent movie, with one annoyingly recurring technical flaw.

Rating: 8/10 (6 February 2001)

I found this to be an excellent film. Costner's accent was not a problem for me. For the record, I was six years old when the events of this film occurred, and I do recall taking part in air-raid drills at school. I thought at the time that it was just part of going to school. Anyway, I liked the focus on Costner's character, rather than on the Kennedys, because they've been overdone in other films and television programs. I liked that the focus was on the crisis, and not on JFK's private life. My one problem with the film was the number of times that the boom mike was in the shot. It had to be at least a half-dozen times, and it got to be distracting. Other members of the audience also made comments about it. It even happened once during a close shot between Costner and Lucinda Jenney, who played his wife (later in the movie, when he comes home late at night). I've never seen sloppier operation of a boom.