A movie so bad it's almost (but not quite) worth watching

The biopic Jackie is so bad on so many levels that it's almost worth watching just to see how a movie can so completely misfire - almost, that is, except that one of the ways in which it's bad is that it's boring: has no idea how to stage a scene (time after time the hapless Natalie Portman badly miscast as "Jackie" Kennedy stares into space as if she's in some long-lost 60s European experimental drama or stands so close to another character - such as her father confessor - that it looks as if they're about to embrace), no idea how to build dramatic tension (obviously the assassination is the key moment, but with the film wandering about through various flashbacks and limply hanging on to its tired framing narrative, a reporter comes to Hyannisport to interview the widowed Jackie, that the narrative never has clear direction or purpose), and only a loose grasp on the politics of the transition for JFK to LBJ (much better dramatized in the many Johnson and Kennedy bios or in the recent All the Way.) The drama such as it is involves the back and forth about the funeral arrangements: open casket or not, procession in DC or not, Jackie and others on foot or in cars, etc. - when the procession finally takes place the film doesn't come close to capturing that actual sorrow and horror of that day - as all who were alive then will remember. Among the many flaws, let's put the relentless and monotonous score at the top - pounding through every scene, every moment, even the funeral march, when the sound of muffled drums from the actual event would have said it all - I can still remember that drumbeat +50 years later. May I also note that, if you're going to build your entire film within a frame story of a reporter interviewing the main character - a pretty shopworn device but let that go - you might at least have a sense of how this kind of interview would actually take place: there would certainly be aides around, and most likely a photographer, and the reporter would almost definitely record the interview - and did this take place in one sitting? Over several days? And what do we gain from this interview - it should be something we now know but never appeared in the story, for example: at least some new insight into this much publicized world-famous figure. But no, there's nothing we know at the end that most viewers wouldn't know at the outset. I could go on, but enough flogging. This one's DOA.