Thirteen Days
Genre: Suspense/Drama
Summary: The story of the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the the perspective of the Oval Office.
My Grade: %90
Pros:
- I love history
- This was a very crucial moment in our history that deserves some current exposure, and to forget it is to relive it, only with a different enemy
- The random role by Chip Esten (of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the Office)
Cons:
- Possibly the worst attempts by top actors at a New England accent
- Language
- Politics are unavoidable, and Hollywood could only take one side: Military action was portrayed as the evil, last option ("We can't do a sneak attack") while diplomacy and dialogue are the only moral option
- The heroically portrayed president who would retaliate if the plane got shot at (and did), didn't when another plane got shot down- this is more a comment on the President's foreign policy than the movie, but it ws overlooked by the movie.
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