Executive Action
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Features
• Color
• HiFi Sound
• NTSC
In Theaters : 07 November, 1973
Video Release : 28 March, 1995 |
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Executive Action Customer Reviews
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How it could have happened... but probably didn't
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Released in the wake of the Watergate break-ins, 1973's Executive Action is one of the better Kennedy conspiracy movies, not because it makes an especially convincing case for its tale of Kennedy being killed by a group of shadowy neo-cons within the system but because rather than uncover the plot through either a fearless investigator or the patsy being set up to take the fall it takes the surprisingly novel approach of seeing it entirely through the eyes of the conspirators as they put their plan together. All the favorites are there - the second and third gunman, the grassy knoll, the Cuban connection, the second Lee Harvey Oswald - although the film's much vaunted research does suffer a rather bad knock when Will Geer's suggestion that they try to discredit Kennedy based on his personal history' is knocked back by Burt Lancaster's company man telling him that there's no dirt to discredit him with!
In many ways David Miller's film is a prototype drama-doc with name actors like Lancaster and Robert Ryan and familiar faces like Ed Lauter and Dick Miller and without the ludicrously epileptic shakeycam that's made the genre look increasingly unrealistic in recent years (real documentary footage rarely shakes THAT much). Instead, it's a solidly crafted and surprisingly involving movie that manages to build up a surprising amount of tension in its last half hour, fitting in rather neatly with Lancaster's other political thrillers like Seven Days in May and Twilight's Last Gleaming. It's not without its flaws - the new footage isn't always seamlessly integrated into newsreel footage of the actual events and the limitations of casting look-alikes are very apparent in Oscar Orcini's terrible performance as Jack Ruby - but it's unexpectedly satisfying.
Warners' DVD has a good widescreen transfer with a promo featurette and trailer for the film as well as trailers for Seven Days in May, The Gypsy Moths and Local Hero.
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