Truly Dreadful Film

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent, a Must See

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I have always heard that France is more liberal since 80s and that before, censorship was the way of life. If it's true , then why France avoids since to produce movies that makes people think and why the old cinema is more challenging ? This movie is the perfect proof : done in 1979, it's an extraordinary fiction about the JFK assassination and like Stone's movie, the big names are here : Verneuil as director and Montand as attorney ! Maybe this is the trail of my hobby for this case because this movie totally gripped me when i discovered it as a kid ! This fictive case is as opaque as the real one and reaches the same conclusion with involving the firms. Visually, the movie is astonishing because like the french comedy « Who killed Pamela Rose », the location are french but looks like America ! In addition, you will find a true classic moment of filmmaking with the scientific experiment about authority ! In conclusion, this movie, helping to understand the modern « democracy », is a sane therapy for every citizen: so try to forget the E … for entertainment that we are fed up daily !

I saw this movie the first time about 20 vears ago, when I was a teenager. Quite shocking then, it now reveals some lacks, though it´s still one of my favourites. I saw it last week, after I recorded it (German version) from TV. The plot is very close to the JFK murder facts, and the authors didn´t want to hide that. Look for the names, "Daslow" becomes "Oswald" when You rearrange the characters. :-) The too long chapter concerning the psychological experiment (based on the Milgram experiments at the university of Yale) is a little bit out of place.But for the rest ... but see Yourself, You won´t regret it!Gerhard

this movie I saw some 10 years ago (maybe more), I took it in a rental and never found it to buy even in French sites. The end is very surprising and intelligent. I would like very much to watch it again because I think it's as surpring as the Sixth Sense althogh a completely different kind of movie.

Finally a thriller which omits the car chases, explosions and other eye catching effects. The movie combines a simple plot (assasination of a french president) with an excellent background. It takes a look behind mans behavior with authorities, and explains why we would obey almost every order (even murder) which would be given to us.Furthermore it shows us how secret services can manipulate the run of history and how hardly they can be controlled. The best thing on this movie is, that there is no classic "Hollywood end" which can easily be predicted.