Excellent but underrated film

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The most significant fact is that this film does not show anyone actually shooting. It only shows impacts of bullets after they are fired. So you only get half the story of the Kennedy assassination, if that much.In fact, there are no films or photographs of anyone in the act of firing a gun in Dealy Plaza that day.The Zapruder film also does not show any alleged shooters fleeing the area.Actually the Zapruder film completely misses one man getting shot there, a bystander named Tague. Neither shooter nor shot impact are shown on Zapruder film for Tague, who represents 1/3 of the total number of persons shot in Dealy Plaza.It also does not show an impact on a cement curb, which was chipped by a bullet according to police.The only gun shown is a large gun being lifted off the floor of the Secret Service car by an agent, who never used it. I think you get to see a brief glimpse of this one unused weapon, but that's all you get gun-wise.Immediately after the shooting, the police raced to the alleged room where the shooter was and found: nobody.

A piece of history that prooves that most film of historic events is quite often recorded by the general public.Also, that previous comment is a prime example of a conspiracy nut (one who blindly believes in the conpsiracy, instead of forming it for themselves) as they seem to ignore the fact that there were many people filming on that in different locations, which perfectly match the spreader film. (also, many of the so called mistakes can be atributed to the fact that it is an old camera that used photographic film that was on a spring based mechanism, which could easily have a speed that is not constant)

This is a strange piece of film to "rate." It's only 26 seconds of some of the most historic (and gruesome) film ever captured -- by chance as much as anything. One wonders what the results would be these days when every third person on the parade route would be wielding a cam-corder.

...and it has yet to receive 5 votes. Granted it's only 26 seconds long, a little more than half the length of Bambi Meets Godzilla, and that darned road sign gets in the way of the camera at such a crucial time.It's amazing that Zapruder kept shooting as the real shooting started. We might otherwise have been left with images of running feet and chaos. The film, dissected later in Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film (1998), clearly shows that the president and John Connolly were hit at different times and from different directions than was concluded by the Warren Commission.Or that was one magic loogie.