From a technical perspective this is one of the best movies of all time. The editing, the cinematography, the sound design, the score. All top notch.

Costner looking straight at the audience and saying “It’s up to you.” Gives me goosebumps every time.

Finally somebody brave enough to ask the question, where exactly was Tommy Lee Jones on November 22, 1963? What are you hiding??!!

Regardless of how people might feel about the "conspiracy" of the JFK assassination...this movie in itself is a cinematic MASTERPIECE!

One of THE most stacked casts in a movie. It's a really interesting movie. The recreation of moments/events is incredible.

This movie is one of the reasons that 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon works so well.

The Donald Sutherland character X. Is based on Luietenan Colonel Fletcher Proudy. He was communicating with Jim Garrison through the mail. I highly recommend Jim Garrison's book On the Trail of the Assassins

The actor playing Jack Ruby was Brian Doyle Murray, brother of Bill Murray. One of the people on Garrison's staff was played by Wayne Knight, who played Newman on Seinfeld. Not long after this movie came out, Seinfeld did an amusing parody of the "back and to the left" speech.

I was a teenager in the 60's , drafted in '68... the events of that decade was so overwhelming. Thanks for reacting to JFK. Finally, can you imagine if there was social media in the 60's LOL

This channel is by far one of the best reaction channels out there we get a full screen to watch the content plus great commentary, and only very few breaks, which are only five seconds the best best.

I was in my 3rd grade classroom when the principal announced on the loudspeaker that the president had been shot in Dallas, i was 150 miles south of theere. If i'm still here in 2038 i'll be too old to remember who JFK is. That was the day this country started on it's downhill slide into what it's become today. Another aspect of this story that's relatively unknown is the journalist Dorothy Kilgalen. She was very famous at the time & the only person that was allowed to interview Jack Ruby, during or right after his trial. Shortly after she died nysteriously & the article she wrote disappeared.

I'd almost forgotten how GOOD Jack Lemmon was... one of the all time great actors x

"JFK" is my 7th favorite film of all time. My favorite editing ever in a film. Brilliant.

when you said, "we know Tommy Lee Jones didn't kill JFK", I was like, boy, you haven't seen the movie yet LOL

Donald Sutherland absolutely owned the one scene he was in. In 15 minutes all eyes were on him & he made sure he made every single second count. A masterclass in acting right there & always gives me goosebumps whenever I see it.

Great job reacting and editing a dialog-heavy film. This may be the greatest cast in any one film. For me, the fact that you included John Candy's scenes is a win.

I always felt the main point of the film isn’t that everyone and their brother was involved, but simply that there were about 100 different ways it could have happened which made more sense than the official story.

one of the ideas that chilled me to the bone-and that I have never forgotten from this film, is when one of the senators during the mr. x section said to someone-and I am paraphrasing but he said-"you don't understand-i know I won't see any of this work that I am doing in my lifetime. this work here is laying the groundwork for the future. this is the change we are trying to put forward. we are in the long game here. and we will win." that blew my mind. I was only about 20, but I honestly hadn't considered such an idea. I didn't even consider a "long game" to make change. I didn't realize how patient people could be to ultimately create this world that they think they want. what really frightens me is that I think we in now in the next phase. all this work that began over 60 years ago, the results are starting to happen now. right now. and omg. what do we do? where do we go? wow. it is very scary.

The dude you said was an alien, was Jim Garrison, the real person played by Mr. Costner in the film.

IMHO this is the best photographed film in history. The editing is dazzling as well. The loss on November 22, 1963 was incalculable. This has not been the same country since.

The 'Alien' judge is the real life character that Kevin Costner plays

Wonderful choice. One of the great films of the 1990s🎭📺🩸

One of my favorite parts of this movie is during the Sutherland scene and flash backs we see General Y on the phone "We're going." "When?" "In the fall. Probably in the South. We need you to come up with a plan." "I can do that." So dark and scary but I love it.

I've seen those morgue photos and yes it looks like they used the actual morgue photos in the film. Also that Zapruder film footage is brutal - I can still remember the first time I saw that.

Arguably the best edited film of all time. The Departed is up there too.

I’m so glad you guys watched this! You’re only the second reaction channel to watch JFK. Regardless of whether or not one believes in any of the conspiracies I think everyone can agree that this was a superbly acted, directed and especially edited film. ETA: I also really enjoyed your discussion after the film 👏

I was in elementary school when the news broke and first knew something was going on when I saw my older sister who was also in the same school crying outside where I was. I was in the living room with our b&w tv on, when I witnessed Oswald being shot on live TV.

Saw this movie as a young teen when it first came out (in the UK) I didn't know anything about the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and very little about Vietnam. So I read everything I could get my hands on and I'm still lost in the rabbit hole 30 years later!

Saw this is the theater with my dad when I was 13. I did not know you could make movies like this. It was the first movie that really affected me.

Thank you for reacting to this film. It is one of the most influential films in my life. When this movie came out in 1991 I was 11 years old. I will never forget my mom renting the double VHS from the video store and watching it with her all the way through absolutely enraptured by the filmmaking and story telling. We got to the end of the 3-hour film and I asked her if we could rewind the tapes and watch it again. We did. We spent 6 1/2 hours that night digesting this story. I have never trusted the government since. Soon afterwards I found a Paperback copy of Jim Garrison's book, On The Trail Of The Assassins in a thrift store and I read it over and over again. Then I gradually started reading other books on the assassination. Fast forward 30 years and I have an entire library dedicated to The JFK thing. It never gets old. It only gets deeper and deeper. Welcome to my world TBR. Lol😂

I was in grade school the day Kennedy was shot. My teacher was weeping. I remember crying walking home after early dismissal. I watched Oswald get shot by Ruby on live tv. It was horrifying and the beginning of my radicalization during the sixties. Years later i fell down the rabbit hole of JFK conspiracy theories. There’s a reason the CIA and FBI refuse to release thousands of pages about JFK’s assassination in the National Archives. Why? Appreciate your screening and, as always, your critiques and intelligent discussions afterwards.

A great companion piece to this film is 1973's Executive Action.

I was a little girl when this happened and I remember seeing it, seeing him get shot and grabbing his neck and I remember seeing Jackie climbing on the back of the car , everyone thought she was trying to get away but it turned out she was trying to grab a part of his head that had been shot off. And I remember the reporter Walter Cronkite telling us the terrible news , I remember how he was so choked up he even took his glasses off. I heard Jackie kept her bloody suit on and when someone tried to see if she wanted to change her clothes she said no because she wanted people to see what they did to her husband!! Little funny thing , I was so young that when they put his body on the plane I thought they were flying him to heaven.. ( saw it all on tv) I also remember a lot of people were crying!!

If you've ever played six degrees of Kevin Bacon, this movie is the lynchpin.

One of my favorite films of all time, the Mr X scene is absolutely captivating. Masterpiece 👌

Funny how he confused Tommy Lee Jones for Oswald yet just so happens in the movie is Tommy’s character that gets charged with the conspiracy lol.

Sam was glued to the screen the whole time :) I really appreciate your reaction, thank you both!

If you want to further see what a great job Oldman did, you should watch him side by side with the real clips of the real Oswald. It's a remarkable performance.

For something about the life, rather than the death, of President Kennedy, I highly recommend Thirteen Days, an unusually accurate movie account of the Cuban missile crisis. There you will see a "military-industrial complex" eager to go ahead with nuclear war. They were missing the glory of World War II and disappointed by Korea and the Bay of Pigs invasion, and for them the A-bomb was simply a bigger bomb. The nervousness of the time also gave us a novel and subsequent movie, Seven Days in May, starring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster, about a possible military coup of the United States. Another great movie, suffering the bad luck of being a serious dramatic portrayal of almost the same plot as Dr. Strangelove and overshadowed by it, is Fail-Safe, starring Henry Fonda as the President. These are three great movies which give you some sense of what the mood and the mindset was like in the early Sixties. Grim stuff, but fascinating. As for JFK? It sent me down that rabbit hole for years, but now I think of it as a movie, not about the assassination, but all the doubt and skepticism which arose after the assassination. Thank you so much.

Everyone is posting about the movie itself, but I wanted to say this was a very good reaction, despite the limitations in the format that you guys talked about. Especially in the discussion afterwards, you hit on a lot of the key points. We all have biases, whether we realize it or not. This is a very in depth topic, it's easy to get lost in it.. and it's easy to ask.. should one care? There can be downsides to caring too much about this stuff. There can also be downsides to not knowing about it at all. You guys already hit on all of these points, swinging back and forth between the positives and negatives of watching a movie like this. One point.. Jim Garrison got nowhere at the end of the movie, but he did inspire Oliver Stone to make this movie.. and here we are watching it and talking about it.. as I said, I thought it was a very good reaction given the limitations.

Honestly, I’ve been obsessed w/this movie (and all things JFK) since the theater. Y’all did a GREAT job - your reaction was flipping perfect. Don’t second guess. Well done. For real.

A great film, but it all needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Oliver Stone admitted he threw all the main theories into one story, and took major liberties with characters. Great movie though. Thanks for reacting! ✌️

This was a great reaction. Everything you worried about didn't ruin the experience. Don't be afraid to pause the movie to comment.

I'm so glad you two chose this movie! I remember just coming out of college and landing a job at Forbes Magazine when this movie came out. I mentioned seeing the movie to my boss (middle aged white guy) and he railed at how horrible it was for Oliver Stone to release such a film that had so many inaccuracies and lies - it hit an immediate nerve. And I think it hit a nerve because it's so good. Jim Garrison may have been crazy as a loon, but his search for truth - even if he never finds it - is the true power of the movie and Costner's Garrison reminds me so much of Jimmy Stewart's Mister Smith goes to Washington. He's the everyman that's as lost as we are, and he will sacrifice his own comfort to find that truth. I absolutely love this film and no other KZfaqr has reacted to this but you two. Thank you. And congrats on your baby ;)

I think it is cool that Oliver Stone had the real Jim Garrison make a cameo as Chief Justice Earl Warren in this movie.

I can't think of a bigger compliment that you could've given to this movie than your assertion that it should be required viewing for everybody. I wholeheartedly agree.

There’s a funny self-own in this film: the scene where they’re timing how fast three shots can be fired they actually fire the rifle _faster_ than the “impossible” speed they’re skeptical about, and certainly faster than the time Costner reads off of the stopwatch. Doesn’t prove anything either way of course since it’s a movie, just funny that they didn’t notice when editing. Typically films have things like a five second countdown that somehow takes half a minute of dramatic close-ups and music, but here they were too fast even for what the film’s based on let alone the dramatic reenactment

The last 30 minutes of Kevin Costners closing statements is the most thought provoking in cinema. How you see that and not feel changed?

Got the original Odd Couple in there too😜Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon

First, great job editing. It's such an underacknowledged aspect of reaction videos, but it's such an enormous undertaking, normally, never mind for a movie like this!! Secondly, I didn't once notice your reaction being anything below the great, enjoyable reaction quality that we regularly get from you guys. It's one of the things most of us love about your channel. Quality reactions (and discussions) that adjust to the individual movies - because you're actually absorbing, contemplating, and thinking about the movie. Lastly, I do hope you don't see big differences in numbers based on these concerns you have about some movie reactions. I just love your selections and have never been disappointed in your videos. So, I always hope to see such a variety of interesting, and different, films.. And I hope you're never penalized by that, via the algorithm or the view count (at least, not to an extreme that makes it not worth your time). Much love from me and the ElectricLady! 😄

My friends and I were extras in the Dealey Plaza scenes. Unfortunately those were actual autopsy photos.

Definitely follow this up w/ Oppenheimer (2023). Another political thriller w/ a massive cast, heavy dialogue, & masterful editing.

I was 12 when this happened. I heard with my own ears Oswald say "I didn't shoot anybody!" AND "I'm a Patsy!"and watched Jack Ruby shoot him on live TV! The great Conspiracy of the Assassination was to create a Maze of Conspiracies, impossible to untangle ....

TBR and Samantha, you guys did an excellent job in your reaction to this movie! What CAN you say, as a reactor, when your eyes or minds are being opened to previously unexplored possibilities? I always enjoy your reactions and in this case, particularly, your comments. Great Job!

I'm so glad that you two are watching this movie. Its one of my all time favorite movies.

I saw this movie, IN a theater, a couple weeks after it came out. As you two said, didn't feel at all like 3 hours...and we went to a 10 p.m. showing! lol Afterward, we were like, crap, it's 1 a.m.!

Keyser Soze did it.

One of the more underrated films of all time

Thanks for watching this one! Oliver Stone is one of my favorite directors of all time. Please watch Natural Born Killers starring Woody Harrelson and RDJ, based on a script from Quentin Tarantino.

I’m still stumped why this movie isn’t reacted to by more reaction channels. Kudos to both of you for reacting to this amazing film!!! I hope you start a trend with reactors!!

“That is one magic loogie” Jerry Seinfeld

Fun Fact : The Actor/Judge you said that looked like an "Alien" Was the real Jim Garrison :)

It's an incredible film. Saw it multiple times in theater. Saw it again for the re-release. Watch it pretty regularly. I'm glad you did this reaction. One of Oliver Stones' best films, even if It's not incredibly accurate. The Actors crushed it on every level. Thank you again for this reaction.

From a distance I can share a movie with friends, never thought I’d enjoy this style of entertainment, and here I am a fan since 1000’s and I truly truly enjoy your channel , and I appreciate your time no hard work…and thanks for opening up with us and taking a risk and a chance by sharing an open opinion and review … I think your analysis is so on point and I am amazed at how quick you’re on plot……and your love for cinema is so gratefully admired

More people need to react to this movie. Gary Oldman freaking delivers.

I'm assuming that you guys reacted to the theatrical version that's 3 hours and 8 minutes. There's a director's cut of this film that's about 17 minutes longer. Lots more info but just as mesmerizing.

This is one of my favourite films from one of my favourite directors. Loved the reaction guys ❤

As a movie fan, it’s an amazing ride. The editing is second to none! As a citizen, at this point having ping-ponged on what happened to JFK, I’ve given up. As a Southerner, I laugh my ass off at the horrible accents!😂 KOOOO day Tahhhhhhh!!😂😂😂😂

very clever movie. It weaved together multiple theories. Sometimes conflicting but very well done. Good reaction.

I’m so grateful you’re reacting to this classic. As I’m seeing this, I’m not sure if you’re watching the theatrical cut or the Director’s Cut. I hope that if you’re interested there are two specific documentaries that focus on the JFK assassination as well as Jim Garrison’s investigation. They are: - The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes (which has interviews with the real Jim Garrison.) and - Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (compares the real events with situations that the film dramatizes).

@11:47 remember the disposable coffee cups with pop-out handles lol

The actress who plays Kevin Costners wife is the Carrie from the movie "Carrie."

I once didnt buy into conspiracy theories. When you get enough information it quickly becomes apparent that some of them are valid.

Oh man, I died laughing at the Tommy Lee Jones moment... given he's in the movie lol

John Candy proved his legendary status and acting prowess in this short but memorable performance in JFK. He is recognizable in appearance but a chameleon in his role. Underrated has a dramatic actor, but he solidified his range in this masterpiece of a film. Thx for reviewing this movie!

Finally. I really only enjoy about four or five movie reactors and y’all are one of them and up to this point no one had reacted to this yet and it’s one of my favorites. Thank you! 🙏🏻

This is a movie where Kevin Costner plays a guy who becomes immersed in a mission, but no one believes in him, and it threatens his family life and his marriage. Unlike The Untouchables, a movie where Kevin Costner plays a guy who becomes immersed in a mission, but no one believes in him, and it threatens his family life and his marriage. Which is also unlike Field of Dreams, a movie where Kevin Costner plays a guy who becomes immersed in a mission, but no one believes in him, and it threatens his family life and his marriage.

The photographs are real. Also, they ran the Life magazine picture of Oswald holding the rifle through AI relatively recently and it concluded that the picture was real and not doctored.

Great reaction to this movie!! I was just a tad bit over 3-months old when this event happened. This probably the 1st time that I have seen this movie as well, even though it has been out for a good while and do remember the commotion this movie caused. Had the honor of visiting The School Book Depository in Dallas, TX, bunch of years ago. The building is a museum dedicated to President Kennedy and that horrible day in American history. Also, I walked and drove the route that the motorcade traveled just to get an idea what the persons in the vehicles may have seen. Also walked the grounds of the area and stood at all the "possible" locations that other "gunners" may have been at. Spent about 4-hours or so just exploring the area and trying to gain a better understanding of those events and get a better view/angle of everything. Definitely an experience. When you see Jackie Kennedy scampering to the back of the vehicle she and the President are in, lots of people think that she was trying to escape the vehicle when in fact she is grabbing for a large chunk of the Presidents skull. The TV show, "Quantum Leap" actually did an awesome 2-part episode of the assassination. A pretty good movie about President Kennedy's WWII service you may want to check out would be: PT-109 (1963) A few very long and very good 3-hour + movies to consider for the channel: Giant (1956) [starring James Dean] War and Peace (1956) [about the Napoleonic wars) Cleopatra (1963) [about Cleopatra w/Elizabeth Taylor] Doctor Zhivago (1965) [Napoleonic wars] The Blue Max (1966) [WW1aerial combat] Waterloo (1970) [Napoleonic wars] Gettysburg (1993) [American Civil War]

Have no idea if everything Oliver Stone is claiming is true or not, but his filming, editing and story are hypnotic. The end with Kevin Costner in the courtroom is mesmerizing. A fabulous movie. Also one of Donald Sutherland's greatest acting jobs.

You want a movie about the media specifically. You guys really should watch Network and All The President's Men.

This movie while incredibly cast and acted, is just fiction. Stone himself admitted that he put all the theories and critics of the Warren Commission into the character of Jim Garrison. The Kevin Bacon character, Willie, was not a real person in real life, he was based on 3 different people. Great fun movie, but anyone who studies the actual case knows that it's a package of unfathomable lies. Glad you watched it!

what a cast though, even if they’re small parts. Great to see

Was scrolling through one my streaming apps about a week ago when I chanced upon this. I hadn't seen it in maybe 20 years and it was a choice between this and another film I hadn't seen. I forgot what the other movie was now but anyway I chose to re-watch JFK. Then after I saw you put up your Patton reaction, I thought TBR Schmitt should do JFK. Then lo and behold. Love the music score as well. So ominous and sinister.

The beauty and rewarding part of being a conspiracy 'theorist' is that you learn who the monsters in this world are and you learn to spot both evilness as well as those good people with strong moral compass & integrity ..; both involved in the battle between good & evil and how this battle for now, is still ruling our societies, while we are mostly occupied with the daily routines. I am not ashamed to want to know the truth. These type movies hopefully will put more people on that path looking for answers. Loved your reactions to this gem. Great movie, which depicts the many enigmatic layers to this whole event.

When this movie came out, I was just astounded and couldn't believe what I saw. As I've gotten older, I have realized this movie has every conspiracy theory piled on top of conspiracy theory and it's a big conspiracy casserole. There was a documentary in the late 90's that had a computer recreation of Dealy Plaza and the angle of the shots that line right up from the book depository and show the so-called magic bullet went in a straight line. It was Oswald and Oswald only.

A few years after this movie, ABC aired a mini-series called Wild Palms, which had Oliver Stone as the main executive producer. It had nothing to do with JFK, but it was set in "the future", and there's a random scene where Stone appears as himself on a talk show discussing how the U.S. government finally released files related to the JFK assassination, and was pleased that these files had that Stone had been right all along with his conspiracy theories (and the JFK movie).

You both did a fantastic job showing parts of the movie and your insightful commentary. JFK is one of my favorite movies and you are spot on.

I love this movie for two reasons: 1) Just a exceptionally entertaining movie 2) It taught me the valuable lesson that just because a movie is based on true events doesn't mean that the movie is depicting them accurately. When I first saw this movie, I bought into it completely. Eventually, I learned that about 95% of it was complete fiction.

I saw this movie as a kid and bought the conspiracy theory entirely. But the experience also gave birth to a lifelong obsession with the assassination and it made me look up additional information in the ensuing years. I've since come around to the idea that Oswald probably was the lone gunman after all and that the Garrison trial was clearly a sham. But this is still a great film, a masterful political melodrama that keeps you riveted for three hours.

EXCELLENT reaction, as ever, from you both. 👍 No apologies required on the [lack of] commentary - the movie is SO dialogue-heavy and dense in threads……your silence spoke volumes. BRAVO. 👏👏👏👏👏

Just a remarkable cast. A wonderful movie, not at all meant to be taken completely literally, but it certainly begs a few questions. Excellent choice. I hope it was worth the long edit!

In reality, Garrison was seen as a crackpot, but because Oliver Stone is a hardcore conspiracy theorist, he was turned into a hero.

This movie speaks the truth

Well done for managing to squeeze this into an hour. There's an extended edition of this movie as well! Most people think they've seen the footage, but it wasn't until this movie came out that people saw the whole footage.

Regardless of one may "think" happened, this is a well done movie all around. Cast, cameos and music all are great.

Gotta love an Oliver Stone flick. The movie make's you think twice about what you thought you knew. It's a very well made movie. And remember guys, conspiracies happen everyday in all corners of the world. All it take's is more than 1 person to conspire.

Masterfully made movie but I do highly recommend watching Lemmino’s or Sean Munger’s JFK videos here on KZfaq as an anti-dote to the, well, bunk that this film heaps on the viewer

Cool reaction as always Schmitt & Samantha, you both take care and have a good night

Oliver Stone is by far one of the most underappreciated directors.To male a movie that is so heavily dialogue driven, so captivating and interesting for 3 hours is amazing. A masterpiece.