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March 2001 |
| Thirteen
Days |
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Dir: Roger
Donaldson
Cast: Kevin
Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Stephen Culp, Dylan Baker.
Length: 145
minutes
Release: 16th March 2001
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| Thirteen
days - a good move for Costner |
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A
political thriller which, after a series of flops, lifts
Kevin Costner's career back into the realms of respectability.
This one is a retelling of the Cuban Missile Crisis from
within the walls of the White House. |
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It's
the series of overstated flops, such as The Postman, which make
the decision to return to something just a little more hard-edged
and low-key such a good move for Costner.
For two weeks during 1962, the world stood on the brink of war
during the Cuban missile crisis, as the American President John
F Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
attempted to stand their ground without bringing about a nuclear
war with the Soviet Union.
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| Decision
time - Costner looks serious |
Costner is
Kenny O'Donnell, JFK's closest adviser, who finds himself caught
in the middle.
Now you could argue that the crisis was blown even more out
of proportion than Kevin Costner's failures, but this movie
tries to tell you otherwise.
It shows the White House turn into a hotbed of political manoeuvrings
that are vital to the aversion of the Third World War.
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decisions - still serious! |
Now we're
not suggesting for one minute that the producers haven't indulged
in a little imaginative licence from time to time, but "Thirteen
Days" remains an enthralling and educating film.
Do listen out for Costner's well-overdone Boston drawl - but
listen quick, as, curiously, it seems to vanish after about
15 minutes.
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Kennedy
waves - Costner looks serious!
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This movie
combines healthy doses of information and drama, as well as
first-class performances from Messrs. Greenwood and Culp. They
play the Kennedys, in a unique and distinctive fashion - not
the predictable characters you might expect, but well-thought
out and believable substitutes.
This is an intelligent film which gives you a real feel for
those things you might like to know about in the corridors of
power - and some you might not.
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| That's
our view - Do you agree? Send us your review: |
| The
"13 Days" movie was excellent! All my family went to see it.
Personally, i have seen it more than once. I liked Bruce Greenwood
and Kevin Costner in this film. It has saspens all the time.
And, i am sure it will be the movie of the year.
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| Dimitris
Spiropoulos Athens, Greece |
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think that Thirteen Days is the best movie of the year... I
particulary loved Bruce Greenwood as JFK.. I think he did a
superb job, and was very upset that he was not nominated for
an academy. HIs was the best portrayal of JFK I had ever seen.
I was mesmerized...A definite must see for all... |
| Leila
Lee, Puyallup, Washington, USA |
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thought the movie was as accurate as a "Hollywood" version can
be. Because of the taping system JFK had installed in the White
House at the time, most of the dialogue is exactly what was
said and heard. Regardless of what one might feel about the
Kennedy brothers, even Nikita, they saved the world from something
that would have forever changed the course of human history.
Jack was 18 hours away from giving in to the "hawks", had we
invaded, our troops would have been wiped out by the conventional
nuclear weapons already in place on the island of Cuba, thus
forcing us to go to Defcon 1. Berlin would have been invaded,
and we all know what the end would have been. Possibly hundreds
of millions dead, mass destuction. I was 11 years old at the
time, growing up in Hollywood, Florida. I remember the troop
movements in the streets and the many encampments all through
out South Florida. Thank God cooler, wiser heads prevailed!
This movie is a must see for anyone i! nt! erested in history! |
| Chuck
Garbett, Roswell, Ga. USA |
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