Overview
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
I saw this movie in the theater with a friend from high school. I remember the two of us walking about of the theater looking for the government bad guy that was surely hiding underneath my car. Neither one of us could believe how our government could do this to us. Over the next couple of years I read just about every book on the assassination. It is amazing how there seem to be a hundred times more that support a conspiracy theory than what actually happened. Fast forward (gulp) eighteen years. It has long been proven that JFK had in fact acted alone. While I openly distrust the government I pride myself in the ability to call a spade a spade. But for this whole time I had still enjoyed this movie for the way it presented this (fake) drama. No more. Want to see the truth? Here it is. And now I’m disgusted. Disgusted that I enjoyed this movie for so long and disgusted that Oliver Stone could take completely liberties with the facts. It is one thing to believe that there was a conspiracy and show why you think that the government was involved. It is another thing to make up events, characters and situations that can be proven to be BS.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews JFK
Movie title: JFK
Movie description: New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
Date published: 2009-03-01
Director(s): Oliver Stone
Actor(s): Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker, Jack Lemmon, Laurie Metcalf, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, John Candy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Jay O. Sanders, Walter Matthau, Sally Kirkland, Donald Sutherland, Ed Asner, Brian Doyle-Murray, Ray LePere, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tom Howard, Lolita Davidovich, Jim Garrison, Wayne Knight, Gary Grubbs, Beata Pozniak, Tony Plana, John William Galt, Ron Jackson, Sean Stone, John S. Davies, Tomás Milián, Raul Aranas, Gail Cronauer, Gary Carter, James N. Harrell, Ellen McElduff, Jo Anderson, Marco Perella, Edwin Neal, Darryl Cox, T.J. Kennedy, J.J. Johnston, R. Bruce Elliott, William Larsen, Wayne Tippit, Dale Dye, Jerry Douglas, Ryan MacDonald, Duane Grey, George R. Robertson, Baxter Harris, John Seitz, Alex Rodine, Sam Stoneburner, Bob Gunton, John P. Finnegan, Walter Breaux, Melodee Bowman, Peter Maloney, Richard Rutowski, Bill Bolender, Price Carson, Gil Glasgow, Bob Orwig, Hugh Feagin, George Kelly, Victor Kempster, John Larroquette, Maria Mason, Ron Rifkin, Frank Whaley, Kevin Beard, Jeffrey Bornstein, Marie Del Marco, Alan Donnes, Orlando Gallegos, Robert J. Groden, Chuck Kelley, Codie Scott, Martin Sheen, Jacquelyn Twodat Jackson, John F. Kennedy
Genre: Drama, Thriller, History
My Review
I saw this movie in the theater with a friend from high school. I remember the two of us walking about of the theater looking for the government bad guy that was surely hiding underneath my car. Neither one of us could believe how our government could do this to us. Over the next couple of years I read just about every book on the assassination. It is amazing how there seem to be a hundred times more that support a conspiracy theory than what actually happened. Fast forward (gulp) eighteen years. It has long been proven that JFK had in fact acted alone. While I openly distrust the government I pride myself in the ability to call a spade a spade. But for this whole time I had still enjoyed this movie for the way it presented this (fake) drama. No more. Want to see the truth? Here it is. And now I’m disgusted. Disgusted that I enjoyed this movie for so long and disgusted that Oliver Stone could take completely liberties with the facts. It is one thing to believe that there was a conspiracy and show why you think that the government was involved. It is another thing to make up events, characters and situations that can be proven to be BS.
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