Despite technical proficiency and a top-class performance from Natalie Portman, this bio-pic feels relatively aimless and meandering. 'Jackie (2017)' has little story to hold its run-time and is honestly quite a dull experience, one I bored by for a large portion of its run-time. There's merit to the picture but, at the end of the day, I wasn't entertained. 5/10

Most politicos in DC knew Jack Ruby was the wet worker for LBJ. Even Nixon was quoted as saying after hearing Ruby killed Oswald "Ruby? That's Johnson's guy in Dallas." This film hints that Jackie knew as well. When confronted by Lady Bird who coldly told her with a smile to put on a happy face when she got off the plane right after the assassination. Jackie replied that she wanted to show them her pain to let them know what "they" had done. LBJ then opened the borders, gave civil rights to drug dealers, split up families with welfare incentives and pushed every agenda the communists had. He was all in. This film was terrible in the beginning because they made her look too different from JK but then she grew on me. Portman's acting was excellent and she had the inflection and accent down very well. Kennedy was too conservative and a law and order guy, unlike the far left who wanted to incite race and class warfare at every level. LBJ was there guy all the way.

That was an hour and and forty minutes of my life I can't get back. So slow and boring, I had hoped it would have been about more than the week after the assassination.

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.