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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 17117
Released: November 11, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A PORTRAIT OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF JOHN F. KENNEDY'S DEATH.
Description of JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Director Oliver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the "director's cut" edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That fateful day in Dallas set in motion a sequence of events that would only intensify the mystery behind Kennedy's death, causing New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) to begin an investigation that would gradually become a personal obsession. Bravura filmmaking combined with controversial treatment of historical facts and audacious speculation, this breathtaking revision of history presents a mesmerizing parade of shady figures and conspiracy theories, unfolding like a classic mystery based on history's greatest unsolved crime. A technical triumph boasting Oscar-winning cinematography and editing, Stone's film is guaranteed to grab the viewer's attention with its daring take on the JFK controversy. The stellar supporting cast includes Tommy Lee Jones, Joe Pesci, Jack Lemmon, Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, and Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald. --Jeff Shannon
JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
JFK 
2009-12-26 - Was VERY saddened to the fact that this is a two disc special edition and the second disc was MISSING!!!
Pretentious embarrassment has not worn well over time 
2009-10-31 - When this came out it was a sensation. Upon reviewing it I see how bad it is, Costner is always horrible but here he outdoes himself, just awful. It is clear however that JFK was blown away from several different angles when you see the actual film of the assassination. Also the director is totally paranoid, and even Joe Pesci cant save this film. Verdict: avoid this film.
Good movie but bad history source. 
2009-10-24 - I like the movie and all, but what's up with Oliver Stone changing the facts? There was one person involved with the Kennedy assasination, not three. Lee Harvey Oswald was not homosexual, (though thats not that important, I just wanted to clarify that), and some of the conspiracy facts in the movie aren't true as well. If your looking for a movie to enjoy, then pick it up. If your looking for a history source on JFK, then it's not for you.
The Ultimate Myth & Urban Legend 
2009-10-17 - If there was ever a more disreputable character in modern American history than the late Jim Garrison, it doesn't come to mind. He ruined lives, committed criminal fraud and in the end the people of New Orleans threw him out of office. Yet this slick con-man is the Gary Cooper-like Everyman in Stone's "re-imagining" of history. Oh, it is well cast and a neat thriller. History it isn't. This shouldn't come as a surprise as Oliver Stone has never let the truth get in the way of his movies. Entertaining? Yes, actually it is. Just don't kid yourself that you are getting some insight into a conspiracy that has held together for over forty years. The Kennedy Assasination now enters the same realm as Area 51, Elvis sightings and alien abductions. Much talked about without a shred of actual evidence to back up any claim. Most political assasins tend to be screwed up losers who beileve they cam be big by killing some who actually is. Oswald killed JFK and that is the truth. Accept or it doesn't alter it. Like the Theory of Evolution does not change the fact that it is a fact -- never mind the pinheads who think the world is only 10,000 years old.
It's NOT about Garrison, Garrison IS the patsy in this film! 
2009-09-16 - Sometimes I cant believe the ignorance in the American public, if you think this movie was about the case Garrison brought to trail in JFK's murder, then your just as delusional as those who think LHO was the lone assasin! This movie was about "X, Mr.X"! Stone just needed a linear backdrop to put Mr. X's info into the public's eye's & ear's, why do you think he created a film where 90% can be debated by couch potatoes and politcal talking heads, But I always noticed consitantly this 1 thing, Noone ever has anything to say about the character Mr. X, why is that? is it because when viewing this part of the film ALMOST everything Mr. X states is backed by archival footage as he's speaking? or that its apart of the historical record? Mr. X IS the JFK movie! Just as Mr.Prouty IS Mr. X!
