Lots of Talk, But Intense

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2019)

I've never really known a lot about the Cold War, besides it being mentioned, and when I did learn about it in my history class, it wasn't taught in very much detail. Watching this movie helped me to understand what was happening during it a little bit more. This movie is mainly focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, so just a part of the Cold War, but it still helped me understand it better and be able to visualize what was going on. This was a great movie. It was well acted, and I liked the scenes with President Kennedy and Kenny O'Donnell. It was interesting to see how they interacted and to see what they were like under such great pressure.
Again, the movie is about the Cuban Missile Crisis. It follows the president of the United States and members of Congress and shows what they went through to solve the missile crisis.
Like I said, I did not know much about the Cold War and I did not know anything about the Cuban Missile Crisis before I watched this movie. Even while I was watching the movie, I didn't quite understand everything that was going on, but I still really enjoyed it. I just really like history even when it's confusing. This movie was a lot of talk and not a lot of action, but it had the action feel to it because of the intense situation that everyone in the movie was working to try and resolve.
This movie was directed by Roger Donaldson. I haven't seen any of his other movies. The main actors in this movie are Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, and Steven Culp. I'm not familiar with Greenwood and Culp, but I have seen other movies with Kevin Costner in them. I think he is fun to watch in movies and is a good actor. My favorite scene in this movie was when the airplanes were flown over Cuba and they took pictures of the missiles. It was a really quick scene, but it was intense and interesting to watch.
I feel like a lot of people don't like movies that are mostly talk and they probably find them boring, but I like movies like that that are history related. They really interest me, even when I don't understand them, which is probably weird, but I do. I really liked this movie. It was interesting to me to see how everyone in congress working on the Cuban Missile Crisis interacted and the different opinions on how things should be done. I would watch this movie outside of school and I would recommend it to people who are interested in that kind of history and like boring movies like me.