Great fiction, if it wasn't true!

Rating: 8/10 (28 January 2001)

It was a remarkable movie which would have been a great fiction (ala "Failsafe") if it hadn't largely been true!
High points of the movie:
1) CASTING: Though they showed the names and positions of the major players, I didn't need that to identify JFK, RFK, and Robert McNamara. The guys they chose for these roles looked eerily like the real thing! I was a little fuzzy on some of the others, as I was only 7 when these events actually happened.
2) REALISM: The movie didn't try to turn JFK and his team into demi-gods who single handedly stopped the Soviets, nor did they make Khruschev and the Politburo into some Empire-like meanies.
Problem:
ACCENTS: People have criticized Kevin Costner for his alleged Boston accent (admittedly fair to poor), but I had a lot more problem with Greenwood as JFK. Anyone who has ever heard his speeches during this time knows he always pronounced Castro's island as "Cuber." Yet, it was always "Cuba" in the movie.
All in all, a good movie that makes you think what might have been...