A shadowy cabal comprised of various members from all over the industrial, political, and intelligence sectors of the US come together to plot the assassination of JFK, in an attempt to block the Kennedy family empire from bringing about a prosperous age of civil rights and equality to the country, under the belief that it'll ruin the American Dream. We see them train riflemen, plot out the motorcade route, develop scapegoats, and just generally lie, cheat and deceive their way all to the bitter end when — spoiler alert! — they get away with it.

Good chunks of this is just a bunch of racist old guys talking in a room about how the president needs to die so that they can control and subsequently cull the population until it's just a white ethnostate — so your mileage may vary with Executive Action if you can't get on board with the fun conversations being had.

Unfortunately it leaves a bit of a dry taste in my mouth as it comes off as quite cold and clinical in its proceedings, very matter-of-fact in its approach — purposefully of course to show that to these shadowy figures it's just business, nothing more than just maintaining the status quo — but I found the way they went about it to be a little boring. Doesn't hold a candle to the madness that is Oliver Stone's JFK, but I don't think there's any film out there that does.

A shadowy cabal comprised of various members from all over the industrial, political, and intelligence sectors of the US come together to plot the assassination of JFK, in an attempt to block the Kennedy family empire from bringing about a prosperous age of civil rights and equality to the country, under the belief that it'll ruin the American Dream. We see them train riflemen, plot out the motorcade route, develop scapegoats, and just generally lie, cheat and deceive their way all to the bitter end when — spoiler alert! — they get away with it.

Good chunks of this is just a bunch of racist old guys talking in a room about how the president needs to die so that they can control and subsequently cull the population until it's just a white ethnostate — so your mileage may vary with Executive Action if you can't get on board with the fun conversations being had.

Unfortunately it leaves a bit of a dry taste in my mouth as it comes off as quite cold and clinical in its proceedings, very matter-of-fact in its approach — purposefully of course to show that to these shadowy figures it's just business, nothing more than just maintaining the status quo — but I found the way they went about it to be a little boring. Doesn't hold a candle to the madness that is Oliver Stone's JFK, but I don't think there's any film out there that does.

So bad I forgot everything I have ever learned about JFK.

So bad I forgot everything I have ever learned about JFK.

1973 | Burt Lancaster | Dick Miller

18 years before the masterpiece that Oliver Stone’s “JFK” is and almost 10 years to the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, “Executive Action”, a film about a conspiracy behind said assassination, was released in theaters. It was pulled from theaters after a short time and pretty much banned from television due to its subject matter.

Unlike most paranoia and political thrillers of the 70s as well as Oliver Stone’s take on the Kennedy assassination, this is not about the uncovering of a conspiracy, but about the process, planning and execution of it. We follow a group of old and white politicians and businessmen who are explicitly far-right extremists and racists in pursuit of some racist eugenics plan.

It’s such a political film that presents itself very cynically and matter-of-factly. While the film falls into some of the classic traps of JFK conspiracy theories like the photograph of Oswald with the rifle being fake when it’s proven that it’s real, it manages to present its conspiracy as believable and realistically plausible. And the actual assassination is shown more explicitly that I expected. It’s not a gore-fest, but you see Kennedy getting shot from multiple angles and through the scope of a rifle without the film cutting around the impact of the bullets.

“Executive Action” understandably gets lost in both the 70s conspiracy and paranoia film and, mostly thanks to “JFK”, in the Kennedy assassination genre, if you’d like to call it that. But the film deserves to be seen more as it’s a very well-made and interesting film with a fantastic pacing. I liked this one a whole lot.

1973 | Burt Lancaster | Dick Miller

18 years before the masterpiece that Oliver Stone’s “JFK” is and almost 10 years to the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, “Executive Action”, a film about a conspiracy behind said assassination, was released in theaters. It was pulled from theaters after a short time and pretty much banned from television due to its subject matter.

Unlike most paranoia and political thrillers of the 70s as well as Oliver Stone’s take on the Kennedy assassination, this is not about the uncovering of a conspiracy, but about the process, planning and execution of it. We follow a group of old and white politicians and businessmen who are explicitly far-right extremists and racists in pursuit of some racist eugenics plan.

It’s such a political film that presents itself very cynically and matter-of-factly. While the film falls into some of the classic traps of JFK conspiracy theories like the photograph of Oswald with the rifle being fake when it’s proven that it’s real, it manages to present its conspiracy as believable and realistically plausible. And the actual assassination is shown more explicitly that I expected. It’s not a gore-fest, but you see Kennedy getting shot from multiple angles and through the scope of a rifle without the film cutting around the impact of the bullets.

“Executive Action” understandably gets lost in both the 70s conspiracy and paranoia film and, mostly thanks to “JFK”, in the Kennedy assassination genre, if you’d like to call it that. But the film deserves to be seen more as it’s a very well-made and interesting film with a fantastic pacing. I liked this one a whole lot.

le casting est excellent et c'était méga intéressant

le casting est excellent et c'était méga intéressant