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This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Blistering performances.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This movie is nearly 3 1/2 hours long but to me it felt like 2 hours. It's my 2nd favorite Kevin Costner movie after Field of Dreams. The movie gained controversy for who the movie pointed fingers at for the assassination of JFK. But it's a movie, for Pete's sake! Besides, it's decided that we will never know who did it.(Is that really a spoiler?) Like Beauty and the Beast, this is a 1991 nomination that earned Best Picture more than The Silence of the Lambs. Roger Ebert called it the best movie of the year and it was Gene Siskel's 7th. There is also numerous celebrities including Kevin Bacon, Joe Pesci(with blonde hair),Sissy Spacek, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones,Donald Sutherland, etc. Most of these are cameos. There is a lot to enjoy here, so go and do so!

I truly admire Oliver Stone gifted filmmaking, his service to our country, and insight into many issues. However, i believe he has simply lost his freaking mind with this movie. None of the portrayals represent the whole truth, because we do not know the truth. That is fine, whatever Oliver. But pandering to the lowest common denominator, i.e.,conspiracy theorists (I use that term loosely) that believe LBJ, the CIA, Castro and little green men from Mars were all behind the assassination. Costner's portrayal of Garrison 's emotion run the usual gamut from A to B. Would it kill the guy to maybe not look like he is always constipated? However, i took delight in the film's portrayal of that insane, evil, closet case J. Edgar Hoover. He looked positively ravishing in this film! So beautiful! Hoover, you entered the wrong profession - you could give RuPaul a run for his money!! sly old dog Hoover

I've avoided watching this film intentionally ever since it came out because I didn't want to be inundated with another whole set of conspiracy theories involving the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I've generally accepted the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, but if the story here of District Attorney Jim Garrison's obsession with the facts is even remotely accurate, then there's probably some room for doubt. I'm not saying I'm convinced, but what I am saying is that director Oliver Stone pieced together an intriguing and compelling film here, even if one were to hold fast to any prior opinions. What struck me as interesting was when Garrison (Kevin Costner) stated to his legal team that even if his prosecution of Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) failed, his long term goal was to give the American people ample opportunity to weigh all the conflicting evidence and eventually force the government to reveal the classified information on the assassination. Of course, with the film made in 1991, it's already coming upon the twenty five to thirty year time span referenced by Garrison and we're no closer to finding the truth. I kind of doubt that we ever will know what really happened on that tragic day in Dallas.For true devotees studying the Kennedy assassination, an excellent companion piece for this movie would be the 1998 documentary, "Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film". It won't put to rest any of the vast conspiracy theories, nor does it try to. What it does is present an intriguing story of how the Zapruder film came about, and how it captured a defining moment in the history of America, tragic as it was. Not for the queasy or ill at ease, it's a serious piece of film making that will affect you almost as much as the actual event did for those who were alive during the era to witness the tragedy as it unfolded on television.

one of films changing, at the first sigh, everything. reminding the role of cinema as detective about obscure files. becoming, again, provocative, direct, fresh and tool for remind the force of question. Oliver Stone is a master of challenges. this film is a real good demonstration. because JFK represents, first, the pretext for explore the profound political America. without the desire to give verdicts. or answers. only as a chain of questions for remind a form of civic duty who seems part of a reduced group.nothing to demonstrate. only fine manner for not ignore.