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Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Munich" (2005)Based on the book "Vengeance" by writer/historian George Jonas (1935-2016), published in 1984 on subjectively-as-professionally-researched circumstances of 20th Olympic Summer Games Assassinations of Israeli sports men in the year 1972 in Munich (Bavaria, Germany), comes this cold-blooded thriller unusual as uncompressed directed by Steven Spielberg, who realizes an utmost-structured screenplay by playwright Tony Kushner and dramatically-polished by screenwriter Eric Roth in order to miss-out in full circle motion picture satisfactions in favor of strangleholding audiences.The Universal Pictures / DreamWorks Pictures LLC film distributes in late release after months of production in holiday season 2005/2006, when cinematic landscape took turns to a majority of daring films in terms of the human condition ranging from homosexuality in "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee to late recognitions on authority misconducts in "Crash" directed by Paul Haggis, when "Munich" had to had been dealing with killings, loss and consequences on the human condition, when nevertheless the picture also-received nominations for Best Picture and Best Director among five nominated categories in total at the 78th Academy Award Ceremony in March 2006 in Los Angeles, California; where fulminate sound design by industrial legend Ben Burtt got overstepped in favors of an highly-accomplished, yet tiring 160-Minute-editorial due to following up to 10 assassinations with bullets, handmade-bombs and no-close-range knife combat-given,by Spielberg's homestead-editor of trust Michael Kahn, who interweaves three flashbacks on the thematic 1972 Olympia assassinations, when leading actor Eric Bana as the character Avner, gets put on a train of restraint emotions by his director, where only a seven and a half minute center scene at running time 1h 17mins 30sec accompanying supporting cast Mathieu Almaric and Michael Lonsdale as spy game enterprising couple of father and son share the some light of a better world in a throughout pessimistic, ultra-darkly-received action thriller.The left-alone sentiments by leading character's Brooklyn-bound wife Daphna, portrayed by naturalistic as seemingly-sympathetic actress Ayelet Zurer, can hardly save this one-way-street motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg, when production company DreamWorks Pictures LLC puts its last effort in coming to terms with Hollywood Major Universal Studios after neglecting unless fortunate studio beginnings with "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" in 1997; concluding in the "Munich" film's memorable cross-cutting, climactic montage of 3 minutes, portraying never seen before visual relations between the sexual act of male on female in relations to acts of violence.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

bleak This movie doesn't bother with the actually documented history of the BACK STORY involving the PLO, Black September, the Palestinians, the Jordanians, the Zionist Israeli government and it's zombie "settlers" or what this movie is based on, namely: "Operation Wrath of God." For that reason, it's mostly what I would call propaganda and indoctrination. Hey, big surprise.*******-> "SPOILERS" (I guess if history is to be called that) BELOW: <-*******The hidden truth that is hardly ever told...If there's a shred of truth in Munich (and the reason I give it some stars), it takes place at 45:10 into the movie when Mahmoud Hamshari and his French wife launch into Israel (pun not intended) AND EVERY WORD OF THEIR DIALOGUE IS THE TRUTH. But because Hamshari is targeted as a terrorist and partly responsible for the Munich tragedy (without a trial and no evidence other than Mossad "intelligence"), EVERY WORD OF THEIR DIALOGUE IS TAKEN AS THE RANTINGS OF TERRORISTS and therefore FALSE by the ignorant masses. It's an old trick that holly wood has been playing for decades; slip in SOME of the truth among the preponderance of lies (omittance) and no one will believe the truth.And there are also shreds of truth at 1:30:00 but much less so because the Arab's prophecy about the short life of Israel is only a dream, unfortunately. The USA (and allies AE) are for Israel. It's all about AIPAC and the Israeli lobby of liars.I don't condone what the PLO did in the 1972 Munich Olympics. That was a mistake. The world didn't know what motivated them (and US news made sure we wouldn't). The PLO were naive to think that it would change anything. Indeed, it only made things worse for Palestinians. But what makes these Mossad agents any better than PLO terrorists or CIA killers or ISIL mercenaries or psychopath cops? Nothing. Not a damn thing. They are the same! They plant bombs. They are sneaky, deceptive and bungling idiots to boot. They kill women and children right through all of Operation Wrath with no discrimination DESPITE what this movie propagandizes as compassion on their part interspersed throughout.Although I lived through Black September and watched the Munich tragedy unfold on TV (along with the lies. TV always has been lies.), I had no idea of what was behind it all. Then the Internet became usable by the average person. Before that, info was censured to all except scholarly types in libraries and we don't know what we don't know.I don't condone what the PLO did in the 1972 Munich Olympics but what I do know is this: Terrorism is and has been the essence of Israel since 1948 and before (see the Nakba or Al Nakbha (Day of Catasrophe) when over the course of a year, 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes, their homes destroyed or taken, murdered, women raped all at the hands of armed Israeli thug gangs), and they are guilty of war crimes against humanity for their apartheid treatment and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in what is RIGHTFULLY the indigenous Palestinian land. The Palestinians are willing to cohabit their land with Israeli's but that's not enough for the Zionist Jews of Israel and it's mind-controlled citizens, is it.This movie is blank on Black September.

Python Hyena Munich (2005): Dir: Steven Spielberg / Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Geoffrey Rush, Marie-Josee Croze, Ciaran Hinds: Place and time regards the aftermath of the 1972 murders of 11 Israeli athletes and the squad sent to terminate those responsible. Director Steven Spielberg succeeds in realism with a powerful setup then it becomes repetitious as the team tracks and kills its targets with various bomb devices. One flaw is its inability to involve viewers. That is not usually the case with a director such as Spielberg but this is not a high point in his career. Basically, this is no Schindler's List. Eric Bana leads the mission but the role is one note until the second half of the film where he examines the vengeance and the paranoia overlooking his life. In supporting roles are Geoffrey Rush and Daniel Craig as well as Marie-Josee Croze who are at the mercy of characters that never seem to come to life. Their roles are more observed than developed and that is a major drawback. This is unfortunate considering the talent in front and behind the camera involved and how flat the material becomes. Strong theme regarding revenge and whether it is warranted. Spielberg doesn't applaud revenge so much as address its madness and whether or not it actually resolves. The film is technically well made showcasing European photography but for Spielberg it is secondary to his masterpieces. Score: 5 / 10

roystephen-81252 Steven Spielberg knows how to make a movie. He has such a knowledge and understanding of the medium that is truly unparallelled. He was probably born to do it, and he proves it every time, even when he (sort of) fails. Munich is not his best work, not even close (I would say it's on par with Lincoln, maybe with Amistad, but far below Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan among his more political movies), but the opening sequence in itself is a testimony to his formidable talents.That sequence, the recreation of the terrorist attack and massacre at the 1972 Summer Olypics, is no less shocking and effective than the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan. The way it was shot and edited reminded me of Paul Greengrass's in-your-face documentary style (United 93, Captain Phillips) that makes you feel you are really there in the middle of events. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie does not really live up to the beginning, though it raises important moral questions and never feels oversimplifying. It just cannot sustain the level of suspense and since its core message (nothing is ultimately black-and-white and revenge may not bring peace and resolution) is not really new, the movie becomes somewhat boring as it drags on a bit too long.Eric Bana, however, is great, as always. He is an exceptional actor who makes any movie worth a watch.