Thirteen Days

USA 2001, 140 minutes
Dir. Roger Donaldson
Rating: [M]
Genres: Suspense/Crime

Topics: Atomic!, Period 1960s, Politics.

Feat. Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Dylan Baker

Aroview: The thirteen tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis – the 1962 showdown between Kennedy and Krushchev – are invested with heroic intensity by Kiwi dir. Donaldson, who manages to craft both a polished thriller and a thought-provoking historical analysis.

Kevin Costner is in understated top-form as special advisor to the President, with impressive support from the whole ensemble.

DVD includes historical commentaries by John F Kennedy and Sergei Krushchev.

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2 stars (Good Try) Another Costner film which is shot in real time. As a dramatisation its okay but a documentary treatment would have been preferable. ~Tubbs