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  Review by Nakul ★★★½ 2

  Roger Donaldson's THIRTEEN DAYS is a pretty solid thriller about the Cuban Missile Crisis at the height of the Cold War between US and the Soviet Union, seen from the perspective of the Kennedy administration. It plunges the viewer straight into the action and ramping up the tension perfectly as the story progresses. Tho, it's little flat cinematically, feels like a big budget episode of The West Wing.

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  Review by chloe ★ 4

  ive never seen so many balding white men in one movie

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  Review by Explorer Of Movies ★★★★★ 14

  Theme - Cold War - Movies I Have Seen Ranked

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  Thanks a lot to DisposableMiffy for this great recommendation. I had no idea such a movie existed before he mentioned it. This was a perfect recommendation to me.

  * I really enjoyed it. I love reading about the mechanics of US politics and government. So this was fascinating to me. I really had a lot of fun

  * I don't know how to review such a movie though. I read the Roger Ebert review of this movie for some advice and some historical lessons, 😂 because I don't know a lot about the Cuban Missile crisis than basic widely known facts. He points out some historical inaccuracies.…

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  Review by A. J. Black ★★★½ 1

  It's quite a sobering thought to ponder that had the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 gone a different way, many of us may not even have been born. Thirteen Days succeeds for the most part in conveying, as the tagline says, just how unbelievably close we came to a Third World War and, let's be honest, nuclear Armageddon. Roger Donaldson's film takes what could have been an extremely dry approach in the form of a docu-drama and manages to spin out of it a sprawling but surprisingly tense narrative, despite being largely made up of men talking in rooms; it doesn't feel particularly cinematic in many places but it's attention to detail and visibly exhaustive research, coupled with a number…

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  Review by Daniel Kibbe ★★½ 3

  Watched this in history class last year.

  Watched this in history class this year.

  I guess history really does repeat itself.

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★

  “I’m your political advisor.
  I’m giving you a political analysis here…this…this is a setup.”

  A thick & meaty dialogue heavy political drama that feels a bit more like a play than real life. I found Costner’s over the top accent ultra-annoying, but one of my favorite character actors, Dylan Baker, does a great job as McNamara.

  “So what are we going to do now?”
  “I’m going to go on TV”

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  Review by kingfrais ★★★★ 2

  Fesselnder und wirkungsvoller Politthriller von Roger Donaldson, der dem Zuschauer detailliert aufzeigt, wie knapp die Welt aufgrund der Spannungen zwischen den USA und der Sowjetunion während der Kubakrise dem Dritten Weltkrieg entgangen ist. Man ist förmlich dabei, wenn die entscheidenden politischen Träger der USA - unter anderem die Kennedy - Brüder, der von Kevin Costner klasse verkörperte Kenneth O', Donnell und Verteidigungsminister Robert McNamara - immer wieder zu wirklich überlebenswichtigen Entscheidungen gezwungen sind. Man ist fast fassungslos, was da damals passiert ist. Die Macher sind dabei nicht zu parteiisch, sondern versuchen auch die Sicht der sowjetischen Machthaber nachzuvollziehen. Bin beeindruckt von Thirteen Days!

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  Review by Daniel Kibbe ★★½ 16

  I've had to watch this in every high school governement class I've taken.
  The system really is broken.

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  Review by Jason Concepcion ★★½

  a high fantasy tale about competent politicians. total mythology but actually very soothing.

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  Review by sal ★★

  watched in class and had the best 15 minute nap of my life. owe it all to u, fake jfk.

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  Review by SCHIZO BAILEY, FBI (enclave arc) 🦅 ★★★

  It's imperative that every viewing of this film be in black and white, with the brightness and contrast dimmed.

  Sucking the colours out gives the film a very Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove level tension at points in another film regarding humanity's experience with nuclear weapons, following the days of the Kennedy administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

  I do not envy the immense task Jack and Bobby Kennedy endured in politics. Not in the slightest.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½

  61/100

  [originally written on my blog]

  Previously addressed in this format upon release [I'll add that earlier review to this site eventually], though I mostly just bitch about Costner's accent. Which bothers me less now than do the film's strenuous efforts to "humanize" the crisis, with relative small fry O'Donnell staring wistfully at the-son-who-might-be-nuked-tomorrow at a little league game and so forth. Still largely succeeds at making diplomacy exciting, if sometimes in the manner of an underdog sports movie: Adlai Stevenson is like the rookie 2nd-string quarterback who springs to life just as asst. coach Bobby K.'s about to sideline him. (Steven Culp's performance as the latter remains one of the best out-of-nowhere-and-right-back-again turns in recent memory.) This would never be a theatrical feature today, would it? It'd be developed for TV from the jump. Too talky, too subdued, too old. World saved not by derring-do but by back-channel agreement to mutually cave.