Outstanding thriller. Plenty authentic

Rating: 9/10 (5 March 2007)

Not looking at this as history but as a film, I find it an outstanding production. Even though it was obviously meant as a Kevin Costner vehicle, I found the performances of Bruce Greenwood (John Kennedy) and Steven Culp (Robert Kennedy) to be magnificent and perhaps the best renditions of these two people in any film. The resemblances were uncanny and they allowed the humanness of these two men come through. This made this film for me, as much as anything. The other performances were also well done. I have read some negative critiques of the actors by some people and they seem to forget that the people shown here were involved in a terribly tense and trying situation.
I remember these days well, because I was in Berlin at the time when the wall went up and was with my father, a soldier, when all of these events were happening. I remember that October with a terrifying clarity even now. And the scenes of what happened to solve the crisis as shown in this film is very close to me.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to know about the days when the world almost ended.