Thirteen Days

a heck of a movie.... ... Full Review

Best of all, though, is that amid the swish cars, gun fights, double dealing, fisticuffs and digging, the film makes good on its promise by delivering a great old-fashioned pay-off where the real villains of the piece get what's coming to them. Directed with a palpable sense of period atmosphere by expat Australian director Roger Donaldson ( Thirteen Days, The Bounty, World's Fastest Indian - and one of the few directors left who knows how to shoot widescreen properly), the film sports an accelerating pace ... Full Review

You cannot watch this sophisticated, understated film... Most important, it has an impeccable sense of period and... ... Full Review

Though Mr. Greenwood makes you feel each decision he must make, the real success of his performance lies in the fact that you are not always on his side. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy (Stephen Culp) rounds the triumvirate of power well, and Mr. Culp brings just enough of the younger Kennedy's renown "ruthlessness" to the role. ... Full Review

The broad outlines here are truthful (some of the dialogue, in fact, is taken straight from the history books), and the public library is stocked with memoirs and histories that can fill in many blanks. Unfortunately, when you have a big star playing a lowly gatekeeper to the president, it's easy for the movie to inflate the character's role. ... Full Review

Thirteen Days" will not be thought of as a great film, but it is an important film. Audio: Due to the massive amount of material encoded on the DVD, the "Thirteen Days" disc has only one primary audio track to accompany the feature, a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. ... Full Review

With the release of Thirteen Days , we have a competent drama told with Hollywood sensitivities that will create a slightly more accurate mythology of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the masses. Fortunately, Costner seemed to mostly forget about forcing this awful accent a few minutes into the film. ... Full Review

Every ship, plane, truck and craft that moves in the film is absolutely authentic to the time period," said New Line spokesman Steve Elzer. While Thirteen Days took great pains to paint a genuine picture of the 1962 showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union that nearly led to nuclear war, print ads circulated in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times weren't nearly as faithful. ... Full Review

From the strains of horns on the score that evoke air-raid sirens to the shifting from color to black-and-white following the film's swinging moods of optimism and pessimism, Thirteen Days is never less than unsettling. Best of all, you can see deleted scenes from the point in the film at which they were cut -- I love this! ... Full Review

An excellent companion to another (even better) Kevin Costner vehicle, Oliver Stone's , is not an actor's showcase like is, but rather lets its story do the telling, taking us behind the scenes as decisions with cascading consequences are made. While it can't make Costner's accent sound any better, it does offer a wealth of features, all part of New Line's new label. ... Full Review