Political Intrigue of Nuclear Ptoportions

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2009)

It's amazing how suspenseful & thrilling this movie is when you not only know "how it ends) but studied it in school as history & may have even lived through it. It's the behind the scenes account, based (according to IMDb) largely on recordings Kennedy made of meetings during his Presidency...ironically a practice that would be the downfall of his arch-nemesis Nixon years later but I digress.
Incredible acting by all involved, though Costner is a bit stilted just reprising the same role as always only this time for a real person.
The casting is outstanding and the "Bobby Kennedy" role made the whole movie. My large Italian family was enthralled with the large Kennedy families My parents were too naiive to know they'd hate the Kennedy politics but we were big fans of he Kennedy's as people
As a study of psyches, as a study of history, as a sheer drama or suspense this movie is a success of nuclear proportions.