Review of Jackie (2016) by Kjhkjhk — 13 Dec 2016

Natalie Portman gives a promising performance as Jackie.The film itself is built solely on Jackie's psychological journey during the event of Johns death. The movie does not explore the perspectives of other characters.

Its a movie on Jackie's personal struggle. Its about how a part of Jackie died when he died. The film feels slow and stagnant because it dwells a little too much on that. The film never steps back into the shoes of an observer and so we never see what the people at that time saw.

We only see her pain we don't see the effect of her behavior on the country and how it made her an icon. And after a while it gets a bit boring. It does not focus on any background events even for a minute.