The Cuban Missile Crisis:A Time of Great Danger

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2004)

I have had the opportunity to read many of the comments expressed as to the merits of the film,The Thirteen Days and I wondered how many whose comments appear here were in this world when the Soviet Union attempted to install medium and long range missiles in Cuba? This film was one of the few movies that I actually went to see,when it was initially released and to this day it remains one of the few movies I will watch on Digital Versatile Disk more than once.When I exited the theater upon seeing this film I was asked by a women as to the film and I mentioned that it brought back a time when even my parents were still in this world. It was not so easy to understand that my mother and father loved this nation and its president and we as a people were made very much aware of the impending crisis that that attempt caused to occur.It also prompted me to tell this women I also remembered the assassination because then too a dramatic event had occurred that caused all to take notice and to pause as we were to lose a president.I was a young boy at the time and both events provided for an indelible impression.As to this very capable movie,it provides a very real appearance of we are there.I believe it is a worthy movie going experience and I recommend it.It is a very well done film,gripping tension,ever ending, unfolding drama.It was a moral buoy to hear the voice of John F. Kennedy in the later part of the film as a great president talked again.I rated this film a 10 as in excellent.