Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Roger Donaldson
Donaldson has packaged a politically thrilling piece of American history and delivered it as it was: a time of intense drama, deep-running tensions, internal conflict, and even a bit about the grotesqueness of human nature.
A time of incredible uncertainty amid a fullscale arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, President John F. Kennedy is thrown into a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. As the CIA discovers the Soviets are building a massive military base with offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, JFK needs to make a decision whether to strike these targets and possibly provoke a declaration of war, or if he can go the route of peace through negotiation.
Bigger than the historical facts of the Cuban Missile Crisis, however, was the little-told story of the internal conflict in JFK's mind between following the recommendations of the majority of his staff and the CIA for going the route of offensive action, and his own conscience revealing to him the common sense simple truth: an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Fantastic acting, superb cinematography, and above-average directing earns this film my nod of approval.
A- for acting.
A- for directing.
A for plot.
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