A terrifying thriller presenting an extremely complex and highly speculative account of the Dallas assassination in 1963. Director Oliver Stone accuses the CIA, the FBI and Lyndon B.Johnson of killing John F.Kennedy and then masterminding an incredible cover-up of monstrous proportions. While this theory is quite unbelievable, the film convincingly proves that there was indeed a conspiracy, that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the sole assassin and that the CIA, the FBI and the Warren Comission did a disgracefully incompetent job of investigating the matter. Oliver Stone completely discredits the official "single-assassin" theory by pointing out the incredibly high mortality rate among various witnesses, the connections between people implicated in the drama and, above all, to the impossible trajectory of the notorious "magic bullet" (brilliantly exposed in the film's climactic courtroom scene). The film also presents a possible (though highly unlikely) explanation of the motives for the assassination - JFK's alleged attempt to get out of Vietnam. A more likely explanation - revenge for abandoning anti-Castro guerrillas at the Bay of Pigs - isn't mentioned. On the cinematic level, the film is absolutely stunning, brilliantly mixing black & white, color and documentary footages. The direction is flamboyant and charged with nerve-wrecking tension. Dynamic and electrifying.
