Wonderful Movie

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The score is AWFUL. Too loud, too jarring and inappropriate in most places. I learned nothing from this. Meh.

I was curious to see this film as I love history and do find the Kennedy story interesting. This film was in many respects interest - mostly because it surprised me and did not give me what I was expecting. The time-frame is very brief, just the week or so following the assassination. Jackie was portrayed as a rather vain, course, and defensive person who smokes and drinks a lot, all of which could be due to the recent circumstances in her life. Portman's performance was also interesting in that she didn't treat the role with awe and gave it to us straight, which I appreciate. I actually really enjoyed the score quite a bit, but didn't think it was a great match for this specific project. Like I said, it was interesting but as a whole a little disappointing. This is the part in a film review of this type where I would usually mention that only if you're a big Jackie fan should you take the time to see this film. However, I will change that to read that if you're a real Jackie fan you probably shouldn't see this film because it does not portray her in the elevated, glamorous light so many want to think of her in, and you will likely be disappointed. Please don't hold your imaginary, fantasy ideas of what you want this person to be against this film and it's participants.

It must take some doing the assassination of JFK and reduce to the level of boredom the viewer has to endure for one and a half hours. I really struggled to find a reason the film was made it just seemed to drift along and then end, my wife asked "Is that it?" sadly yes. I think Natalie Portman did an OK job with a awful script and the soundtrack was too loud and dreary. I am trying to understand what they wanted to convey, was it that Jackie was pretty much self absorbed? The whole thing just plods along a bit like the scene were she plods through the Arlington cemetery mud. They also missed the moving scene were the son salutes the coffin, this film unfortunately is not worth your wasted time watching it.

A man like John F. Kennedy has been object of a lot of criticism and debate over the years. And rightly so. A key figure in the political world of his time as the President of the United States, Kennedy's presidency is often regarded as a turning point in the twentieth century.He rule the country when the civil rights movement was boiling and amid great tensions with the Soviet Union in the international sphere. Yet,this isn't a picture about him but about his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy.The movie starts off by showing us the harrowing moments after her husband's assassination in Dallas, in 1963. His wife is beside him in the car. When two gunshots were fired she was the one who had to hold his head while watching his husband dye, his life taken away in such a sudden and brutal way. Such a shocking scene is use carefully in the film. We get to see even splatters of Blood in Jackie's face and suit, but we never see her go out of her mind. What makes up the core of the movie is the interview she has with a journalist some days after the event. Still in shock, shivering, fragile but at the same time in control of herself. Only a great woman would have been able to pull herself together so quickly after what happened. Natalie Portman does a wonderful job in creating a character with so many angles to it. One moment she's arguing with her husband's family over where her husband should be buried or over whether or not the children should attend the parade as part of the burial; the next she's all curled up in bed and bursts into tears. She is the beginning and the end in the movie, the rest of the characters are drawn to her, pulled towards her in one way or another.I don't believe this is a masterpiece as I don't see its greatness beyond Portman's performance. You won't regret watching it, though. That's for sure.