Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.... (Full plot summary below)
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Declassified files related to President Kennedy's assassination in a far larger context, aiming to shine more light on what really happened in 1963.
Leave your thoughts about JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzThe sometimes mesmerizing, sometimes frustrating film proves that Stone, ever the professional provocateur, still has what it takes to rile an audience. Or at least make your head spin round so many times that you’ll be backward thankful for the migraine. |
| The TelegraphTim RobeyStone packs a ton of information in, then lurches to a halt; while he milks Kennedy’s mistrust of the three-letter agencies, his grasp of “what really happened” is still fundamentally guesswork. Still, he does persuade us of smoking guns out there that weren’t Oswald’s, or anywhere near the book depository. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass is an exhaustive and sometimes exhausting documentary, a film that can sometimes feel like it’s so packed with information and detail that Stone has lost the path through this dense forest of conspiracy theories. At its best, it reminds one how tightly Stone can assemble a film like this one as he makes a convincing case that some things about the assassination of JFK don’t add up. |
| EmpireIan NathanJustice hasn't been done. The heavens haven't fallen. But skilfully prodding and probing at the edges of America’s greatest crime scene, Oliver Stone reinforces the argument that this was far from an open-and-shut case. |
| The PlaylistMark AschWithout the captivating veneer of fiction, Stone’s “JFK Revisted: Through The Looking Glass” comes off as a much more rhetorically dishonest work. And without the brio of Stone’s highbrow-Sam Fuller imperial-phase filmmaking chops, it’s merely a wan appendix. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawDid the whole nation and its governing class go into denial after the Kennedy assassination as a way of managing their shock and grief? Perhaps. But this documentary, for all its factual material, is frustrating. |
| The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeNobody can doubt the filmmakers’ diligence. The interviewees seem like serious-minded people. But, as has been the case for close to 60 years, we are left with a jumble of loosely connected discrepancies that will do little to persuade those who expect everyday existence to be just that chaotic. |
| User ReviewheloheAlthough rather a short documentary compared to the previous film, it is nicely done and reviews the newly released documents. The problem remains that 60 years after the assasination, no matter how convincing the new evidence is, very little will come out of this in in terms of resolving the murder, finding and punishing the responsible parties or abolishing respectively fixing the structures that enabled this to happen in the first place. |
| User ReviewarostislavnaFiction paid by CIA's control of Hollywood. Some things are correct, but this case is incredibly evil surrounded in shadow from the deep state. Stone goes off on a tangent about the multiple shooters, and how Oswald was innocent. This isFiction paid by CIA's control of Hollywood. Some things are correct, but this case is incredibly evil surrounded in shadow from the deep state. Stone goes off on a tangent about the multiple shooters, and how Oswald was innocent. This is true, but he overlooks key evidence. Regardless of everything... the deep state, the mafia, CIA, FBI... were all involved in the conspiracy. |
| User ReviewUncleWillardThis is a great follow-up to both JFK and Oliver Stone's Secret History series, which was also fascinating. Not that anyone needed much of a nudge to believe there was hinky **** goin down in the city on the JFK assassination, but this adds a lot of fuel to a long-smoldering fire. The Magic Bullet fiasco, JFK's body, and missing witness testimonies are all added bonuses to something a lot of folks have already arrived at; it was a "coup d'etat." JFK threatened the military industrial complex and the war in Vietnam. He had to go. |
