Promoters for New Line Cinema's Thirteen Days touted it as being a "political thriller."

This is your classic case of false advertising. After seeing the film I was definitely not thrilled.

Thirteen Days tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of presidential advisor, Kenny O'Donnell. Kevin Costner plays O'Donnell in what I would classify as a fair performance.

In his second scene in the film, Costner miraculously obtains a poor mix of Irish and Massachusetts accents, and continues to have them for the rest of the film, although at varying degrees.

Bruce Greenwood plays President John F. Kennedy and Steven Culp plays his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy. None of the actors, including Stephanie Romanov, who was cast as Jackie Kennedy, looked exactly like their characters, but they did resemble them.

Even though his hair was bit flatter and he had an accent as well, the mere sight of Greenwood caused me to flash back to his role as the conniving husband causing Ashley Judd much stress in Double Jeopardy.

According to Premiere magazine, the movie is based on interviews with the late O'Donnell about the crisis.

During Kennedy's term in office, O'Donnell was one of two people that had direct access to the Oval Office. O'Donnell is meant to be the hero who knows all the right answers. He even knows them before the indecisive president and anyone else, for that matter.

Around the two-hour mark of the two-hour and 20-minute movie, I noticed those around me were checking their watches.

Needless to say, as the audience's interest waned, the film would have been more effective had it only included about 10 of the 13 days.

This film is a drama and the subject matter demands that it be. It has about five witty lines, maybe a few more for history buffs, which I am not.

It has a small romantic plot line between O'Donnell and his wife, who along with Jackie Kennedy, is portrayed as a complete waif without a brain. This romantic subplot provides the best line of the whole movie, which can be heard each Saturday morning throughout the bars and fraternity houses of State College, "It's 2:30 in the morning — are you hitting on me?"

Although Thirteen Days was not a totally horrendous film, it was full of heavy, thick dialog, most of which was about politics.

This is not a bad thing, it just wasn't for me.

I realize that the time surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis was difficult, stressful and depressing.

However, these are human emotions that the movie failed to capture.

Thirteen Days is definitely not the movie to see to whisk away those finals week blues.