Based on real events, this film takes place in Dallas, Texas
on the day of the JFK assassination, as well as, the days following. The film
follows the events of those few days from the perspective of a couple different
people that were affected, including Robert Oswald the brother of Lee Harvey
Oswald.
Early on we meet Abraham Zapruder (played by Paul Giamatti) who
was filming the President’s motorcade when the assassination happened. As you’d
probably expect, much of the film deals with the secret service and FBI. Ron Livingston I thought was particularly good
as FBI agent James P. Hosty. On the other hand, you have Billy Bob Thornton
playing a secret service agent and his performance is pretty forgettable.
In addition to Giamatti, Livingston, and Thornton the film
also stars Zac Efron, who plays a doctor at the Parkland Hospital where the
recently shot President Kennedy is taken and later pronounced dead. Nothing
against Zac Efron, but I just don’t buy him as a medical professional. He seems
a little out of place in the film.
Overall, the film is a mixed bag. There are a couple of good
performances, and though the film is about a memorable event in American
history there really isn’t anything in the film that you haven’t seen before.
It’s a pretty cut and dry retelling of events.
Not an awful movie, but nothing special either.
I give this one a 2.5 out of 5.
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