Review of Death of a President (2006) by Matt G — 11 Mar 2010

A really powerful, layered mixture of JFK, The Parallax View, and a PBS Frontline documentary that portrays a quasi believable scenario if George W. Bush were assassinated and the investigation that would ensue.

People should not be so quick to judgment on this film just because it portrays the assassination of the president. I will say this, in my opinion, without question, how grossly overwrought, sensationalistic, absurd, and asinine the paranoid unintelligent, fear-based prop show, 24, is in comparison to this film.

Where Kiefer saves the day and has no moral or accountability for gross illegal and highly morally questionable acts, this shows a nuanced and brilliantly capable direction and realization by someone of immense talent that I believe even my give Paul Greengrass of Bloody Sunday, Bourne franchise, and United 93 some competition.

The film is not perfect and does hysterically and simplistically make most contemporary anti-war protesters to be mindless, extreme, and violent zealots, instead of what most of them are, intelligent, passionate, and in protest for good solid reason, but that's only a minor issue in the whole of the film.

At first, I was weary where the film was going, but eventually I noticed a craft and care to make the film as a solid, fair dramatic film worthy of praise, while still be imperfect.