Review

Rating: Null/10 (7 February 2006)

The film does well in providing entertainment, yet some of the historical aspects of the film may be questionable. Apart from the horrible attempts at the New England accents by Costner and the rest of the actors in the White House, the film does well in humanizing the President and his cabinet. Thirteen Days provides us with the fact that the President of the United States, despite his superiority, had fears and thoughts no different than our own during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The film is extremely detailed, showing the day to day conflicts between the so called Hawks and Doves. The Hawks being those who believed that war was the solution to the Cold War and the Doves being those who believed politics was the method to solve the ongoing pressure between the US and the Soviet Union. It is interesting to note the change of policy during the Cold War administrations and the current administrations, how we have changed from a retaliatory strike policy during the Kennedy administration to a first strike foreign policy in the current.