The first 20 minutes of Parkland, available now on home video, are startlingly good. The pace is fast, the footage is expertly mixed with old news reels and the characters settle into their days as if it’s going to be like any other. It’s not. However, once those 20 minutes are over, Parkland doesn’t have anywhere to go and knows it.
It’s got nothing very new or refreshing to add to the endless array of JFK assassination-inspired stories. The only part of the film that really stands out after that first third is the story of Robert Oswald (portrayed by the very engaging James Bale Dadge). If only the whole movie had been about him.
Parkland follows a whole lot of people as they deal with the aftermath of the president’s assassination in Dallas. There’s a fantastic ensemble here (probably due to the fact that respected actors Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton are producers) and all do great things with their roles whether they be minor or major. The ones that really stick out are the doctor trying to save a dying president’s life (Zac Efron), a man with the only footage of one of America’s greatest tragedies (Paul Giamatti), a Secret Service man that’s never lost somebody on the job (Bill Bob Thornton) and the previously mentioned Robert Oswald who deals with the biggest challenge of them all: living in a world where his own brother killed the president.
If Parkland had chosen just one of these characters to focus on, the film might have found some clarity. Instead, most of these actors and their character arcs are limited to very short amounts of screen time. Everybody does great work, but there’s barely enough time to get to know these people, let alone follow them
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