This movie isn't supposed to have a deep message.

Rating: 7/10 (14 August 2006)

All Stone was paid to do was recount the story of these two guys, what happened to them, how that affected his family and what the over all reaction to the crisis was at the time of the crisis.
In this he did very well.
He certainly didn't JFK the story.
Good job, and if you didn't know it was Stone as the director, you wouldn't have known it. That's a sign of a good director letting the script tell the story.
And like it or not, Cage did an admirable job. He didn't do his often over acting thing.
Mark