JFK
(1991)
Oliver Stone's 3 hour epic combines actual footage
with recreations and also an decidedly cinematic movie.
The elements combine to form one of the most vividly
persuasive movies ever made. "JFK" is pure propaganda,
but it strives to and succeeds in inspiring the average
citizen into believing that action should be taken to
discover who killed Kennedy and, more importantly, why
they did so.
Kevin Costner, Laurie Metcalf, Joe Pesci, Brian Doyle-Murray,
Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Jack Lemmon, Ed Asner,
Walter Matthau, John Candy, and Gary Oldman (as Lee
Harvey Oswald) are all excellent. Only Sissy Spacek
seems uninterested in her part. But she is playing a
typical Spacek secondary character so nothing is really
lost.
Movies used to be made to sway popular opinion and
inspire action. Oliver Stone has given us the first
movie to do so in years.
Notes:
1991 Golden Globe for Oliver Stone, Best Director.
1991 Oscar for Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography.
A total of 8 Oscar nominations in 1991
Review written in 1991
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