Movie Review

Rating: Null/10 (22 October 2004)

The movie "Thirteen Days", starring Bruce Greenwood as President John F. Kennedy and his personal adviser Kevin Costner, attempts to recreate the experience of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The movie shows what occurred during this terrible time from the White House point of view. The movie shows many details that occurred in real life including the photographs taken by a spy plane discovering the construction of missiles in Cuba. The US had a huge problem with this because they would not tolerate the existence of missiles in a country so near that the missiles would take a matter of minutes to reach the US if launched. THe conflict went on for thirteen days, hence the name of the movie due to the stubbornness of both countries and their refusal to back down. THe movie shows how close we came to having a possible nuclear war.