Disappointment for a huge fan!

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

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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!

This movie is just A-Mazing! Maybe this is the best film editing ever! Can't wait to watch more Oliver Stone movies!(8.5/10)

Oliver Stone, the director of film JFK [1991] has done a great job. He has directed a movie, that truly deserves Oscar in direction too which stone didn't won. The Film won two Oscars in Academy Award (1992), one in editing (Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia) and one in best cinematography(Robert Richardson). This Is a mind blowing historic thriller film which you will want to watch it again and again after seen it in first time. Some scenes in this movies are so interesting and amazingly filmed that created goosebumps every time i watch it, specially the assassination scene [2:54:32 to 3:07:30] in 3h 21m Director's Cut. The main key points to watch JFK are:1. Cinematography: Robert Richardson is the cinematographer of JFK [1991]. The excellent art of photography and camera-work made this movie watchable again and again.2. Editing: The merging of various shots and soundtracks at the same time is the key point of this film that makes it more interesting after every scene.3. Soundtrack: The assassination scene demo at the beginning started with a goose bumping soundtrack that actually makes feel the conspiracy work. It is a great thing.4. Acting: Costner, Oldman, Pesci, Jones, bacon and Sutherland's's great acting lift up the movie to a great height.If you didn't watch it, PLEASE go... take a shower and watch it. I promise you will never be disappointed if you have interest in a thriller movie. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this movie. 10/10 (Please watch it in 201m Director's Cut on Blu Ray quality)

Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order, I come to his second movie of 1991,JFK. Plot In A Paragraph: Jim Garrison, a New Orleans District Attorney, discovers there's more to the JFK assassination than the official story.Does anyone still believe Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman?? Sorry too controversial?? I'll rephrase that...... Do you know anyone who believes Lee Harvey Oswald acted all by himself in killing Kennedy?? I certainly don't. Now on to the movie Itself. Watching this movie, It's impossible to believe the Warren report, because the physical evidence makes its key conclusion impossible: One man with one rifle could not have done it. If one man could not have, then there must have been at least two. Therefore, there was a conspiracy. But we just don't know who!! Maybe it was the CIA, maybe the FBI, it could have been Castro, or the anti-Castro Cubans, the Mafia or the Russians, or all of the above, were involved. We just don't know.What we do know, we know by heart. The grassy knoll, three shots in 2.6 seconds, Lee Harvey Oswald in Russia, the Zapruder film, Jack Ruby, the hobos in dress shoes, the parade route, the Bay of Pigs, the eyewitness testimony, the woman with the umbrella, the palm print, the wrong shadows on the photograph etc.JFK is a masterpiece. It's huge cast is perfect. Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Joe Pesci, Donald Sutherland, John Candy, Walther Matthau, Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spaseck. Special mention must go to Jay O.Sanders and Michael Rooker too, I always like seeing him and screen, and here is no exception. Of course Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for an Oscar for his work here. But truthfully most of the main and supporting cast could have been. None more so than KC, who gives a passionate performance. The writing, the directing, the acting, the editing, the music (by John Williams) the photography, are all brilliant. It's one of those movies where EVERYTHING is on point. I honestly expected the movie to sweep up at the Oscars, I was shocked Silence Of The Lambs won what it did, when it was up against this, and many others. I hadn't seen the movie when it won what it did, and was unimpressed when I did (but that's another story) JFK was nominated for 8 Oscars (winning 2) and I think it should have been more, with KC being robbed of a nomination himself. He was certainly more worthy of winning than Anthony Hopkins in his glorified cameo!! Hardly in the movie, but he won best actor. KC helms a 3 hour epic, and is ignored.I suspect the movie was too controversial to win, as was KC's character, too controversial for a nomination!! Stone received a lot of criticism at the time for having Garrison as the "hero" of the movie. If I was to make a boxset of KC movies, for future generations to get a grasp of KC as an actor, this movie would be in there, along with Dances With Wolves and Field Of Dreams. Despite being viciously attacked in the media, before it was even released. JFK ended the year, the 17th highest grossing movie of 1991 with a $70 million domestic gross. More than Thelma & Louise, the popular comedy Hot Shots, and action flicks Point Break and Last Boy Scout. Another classic, and 10/10 for this reviewer