It seems amazing to me that my "Underrated Movie No. 1..." post was all the way back in October! How time flies. Makes it all the more important for me to keep writing in my weblog before everything we do in life becomes a blurred memory.
I watched Thirteen Days on Tuesday. What a great movie. For those who have not seen it, I highly recommend it. It stars Kevin Costner, but don't let that put you off, he is actually very good in it. In fact his performance is the pillar around which this strong movie is built. It tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the point of view of the Kennedy brothers and JFK's chief advisor, Ken O'Donnell (played by Costner). As I understand it, the movie is largely historically accurate, and it shows how close the world came to nuclear war. It's hard to categorise the movie; it is part political thriller, part historic recreation, even part documentary. However, regardless of your taste in movies, given the real-life story and superb film-making it is hard to see how anyone could dislike this film.
1 comment:
I'll have to agree with you, one of the better Costner movies out there. If you can assume it's historically accurate, so much the better.
Greg
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