Protraph Lack of good storyline.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

ben-62040 Overrated movie: Jackie (on Amazon Prime). Comparing Portman's tour of the White House to the real thing on YouTube, she's a truly incredible mimic - but not sure her acting skills are really demonstrated here.I get that the semi-random flicking back and forth between present and past is a deliberate attempt to convey her mental state, but it still feels random.Disappointing that we learn so little of the woman beyond her entirely understandable state in the immediate aftermath of the assassination. The blood-stained dress was really thrown in your face in scene after scene (we got it the first time, thanks). And the (fictitious) interview gimmick felt crude - telling when it could have been showing.Finally, the photography was bland and uninteresting even when showing what should have been grand or moving scenes. It's not a terrible movie, but it was a tremendous waste given what it could have been.

macpet49-1 This must be the umpteenth version of Jacks by now? I think they were full of bravado agreeing to do this yet again. For those of us who are old enough to have lived through it, nothing new here. I have to say that I have difficulty historically dealing with impersonators in general because I tend to become harsher than usual. I'm a stickler for small details. For instance, her hair is incorrect--Jackie had more of it and a lower hairline which gave her a distinctive look. Natalie's hair comes and goes throughout the film as though she either has extensions going on or a wig and then not a wig. Her hairline is so high that she almost looks like she's balding. Then there's the accent--at times it does evoke Jackie but mostly there's a distinctive annoying lisp that Jackie never had. Then there's the miscasting of almost everyone else in the film The only people who 'look' like they might be Kennedys are the actors for JFK and Teddy whom we barely see or hear. Bobby is played by one of those Swedish boys from that huge Scarsgaard family. He too has an unbearable lisp. Jackie was tall for a female of that time; Ms. Portman barely reaches anyone's shoulders. Jacks was famous for wearing low cut heels. Natalie is on stilts and even then she can't outgrow Tucky or Rose Kennedy (who was a shrimp). The clothing looks bought from a Catholic charities shop downtown--work,cheap and completely wrong. The children are pathetically incorrect, no comment (Some producers' kids no doubt?)! A fine Brit actor plays the priest but hardly has a line worth mentioning. Portman gives good grief but adds a snippy , cranky sarcastic edge to everything she says (very unlike ladies who were taught manners from Miss Porters). A 'rush to production' is obvious . It does perhaps show Jackie's complete experience of the time but hardly and unfairly all sides of the woman. Watch documentaries and skip this one.

lanckenj This movie is disappointing in the storyline and acting. The portrayal of Jackie is manic, self consumed and well a little unhinged. I found delivery of her a little monosysIlabic from Natalie Portman. I had to stop watching as it was annoying me. If this is a trueportrayal of the first lady married to JFK I have ended up no admirer of her.

DonAlberto A man like John F. Kennedy has been object of a lot of criticism and debate over the years. And rightly so. A key figure in the political world of his time as the President of the United States, Kennedy's presidency is often regarded as a turning point in the twentieth century.He rule the country when the civil rights movement was boiling and amid great tensions with the Soviet Union in the international sphere. Yet,this isn't a picture about him but about his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy.The movie starts off by showing us the harrowing moments after her husband's assassination in Dallas, in 1963. His wife is beside him in the car. When two gunshots were fired she was the one who had to hold his head while watching his husband dye, his life taken away in such a sudden and brutal way. Such a shocking scene is use carefully in the film. We get to see even splatters of Blood in Jackie's face and suit, but we never see her go out of her mind. What makes up the core of the movie is the interview she has with a journalist some days after the event. Still in shock, shivering, fragile but at the same time in control of herself. Only a great woman would have been able to pull herself together so quickly after what happened. Natalie Portman does a wonderful job in creating a character with so many angles to it. One moment she's arguing with her husband's family over where her husband should be buried or over whether or not the children should attend the parade as part of the burial; the next she's all curled up in bed and bursts into tears. She is the beginning and the end in the movie, the rest of the characters are drawn to her, pulled towards her in one way or another.I don't believe this is a masterpiece as I don't see its greatness beyond Portman's performance. You won't regret watching it, though. That's for sure.