While the secret Israeli squad track down the terrorists that massacred the athletes in Munich, they begin to understand revenge is not what they thought it would be. Killing someone, even if they clearly deserve it will leave an imprint on you you may never be able to get rid of.
It was pretty slow, didn't really watch the first hour or so, I just spent that time talking. Then at the last hour I actually watch the movie, and it was some bit okey. It wasn't Bana's best performance, nor Craig's, though they were okey. I didn't even notice Rush until the very very end.
From the director of Schindler's List becomes the true story of what happened after munich olympic games massacre in this Steven Spielberg film Munich. 'Munich' recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who leads it. this film is based on the book called Vengance about 5 men chosen to eliminate 11 Palestinians from Black September taking them down one by one. the film stars Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush and there performances were great. this film did have some strong graphic violence in it and it was a bit bloody. Munich won 5 oscars including best picture and director.
Steven Spielberg's Munich is a great story based on the 1972 olympic massacre. the story: " Munich"' recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre -- and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who leads it. Daniel Craig's performance was great as well as the other people who starred in this film. quite a few gory scenes in this film. a great film of 2005. this film derserved to win it's 5 oscars including best picture and director.
Steven Spielberg Munich recounts the dramatic story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate 11 Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre. this film is from the director of Schindler's List and great performances by Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and also Geoffrey Rush. Munich is based on the book vengeance. one of the greatest film of 2005. no wonder it won 5 academy awards including best picture and best director.
superb dive into the psyche of a terror and counter terrorist mind!!! its was similar to what Indians go through each and every time some terrorist attacks their home country! but yes, we don't beleve in counter attacks!!
One step away from being his Schindler's List sequel. The cast is great and Spielberg has inspired direction. The only problem is the ending which falls flat. Makes you scratch your head.
I have a feeling this movie will horrify me, if only because so many Americans thought it was anti-Israeli, which is clearly a knee-jerk, hysterical, typical American reaction to anything even vaguely critical of anything having to do with Israel
i really liked it. it strayed clear of that whole preachy aspect of the incidents entailed, and instead chose a narrrative path, one filled to the brim with the utmost of precision and (gasp) craftsmanship from senor speilberg. quite tense. quite lovely. if only his other films could be half as good.
Wow, this and Brokeback Mountain losing the Oscar to Crash shows what a joke the Academy Awards are. This film reminded me of Speilberg's Goodfella's, hitting a lot of notes from the classic Scorsese film. Easily Speilberg's best dramatic film.
one of spielbergs darker pictures about a team of israeli's sent to take out the palestinians who planned the hostage taking at the 1972 olympics which resulted in the death of the athletes. there has always been a shady past between israel and palestine, both sides commiting atrocities and here one story is told soundly. this film shows signs of spielberg maturing as a director when it comes to subject matter. however this is not a classic. it's very slow paced and despite the really good calibre of actors (including daniel craig in an early role) they don't have much to do and are not used to their full potential. i think the best acting came from Ciarán Hinds who played carl. also seen him in another powerful performance as president nemerov in the sum of all fears
Great Spielberg modern masterpiece. Although the film focuses specifically on the acts of the Mossad agents hired to track down and exterminate the Palestinian terrorist group (Black September) responsible for the kidnapping of eleven Israeli athletes during the 1972 Olympoc Games held in Munich, the execution and pace of the film works pretty fine. The direction is as good as we have always seen from this great director and the performances are very decent.
Nothing Steven Spielberg has made quite prepares you for Munich. Not the assault on Omaha Beach or the target practice of Ralph Fiennes' Nazi commandant Goeth. Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List are the obvious comparisons within his previous 23 features, but neither is as bold or shocking. War of the Worlds - with its trite allusions to terrorism - was merely a feint. This is the sucker punch - the bravest film of his career.
At the 1972 Olympics, the world's grandest statement of peace, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and killed. The world watches, live, in rapt attention, rooting for either death or salvation with a fervour beyond that which any event could muster. Once the deaths are confirmed, Israel moves quickly, assembling a team of assassins led by Avner (Eric Bana), a former bodyguard of the Prime Minister. Their task is to as publicly as possible eliminate eleven Palestinians who helped organize the massacre, so that the world may know that the killing of Jews will no longer be tolerated, that Israel's vengeance will be swift and severe. The inexperienced team is well-funded, but they do not officially exist. As they work through the list, they become better assassins, but in many ways they also become worse patriots, beginning to question their country's motives and developing the paranoia of the hunters becoming the hunted.
It is this evolution of the assassins that serves as the film's true narrative core. Bana and his team begin as idealists, men who have signed up for this mission because they could not imagine living with themselves had they not. They are willing to throw themselves headlong into certain death, if need be, out of a pure sense of loyalty and duty. By design, none of them are trained for this sort of thing. Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz), the bomb maker whose bombs tend to malfunction, is a simple toy maker who has some training in dismantling bombs, but none in building them. They start to get better at it, though, and with that experience comes the knowledge that not everything is as it seems.
They begin to recognize hidden agendas and affiliations the way a spy would, which leads them to begin asking questions. But beyond that, the team (Avner especially) begins to be both tormented by the repercussions of what they're doing and as members of the team start dying, a growing paranoia that they may be next. Even a man throwing a cigarette out the window of a moving car is enough to alert Avner's sense of panic. Bana's performance here is better than anything he's done since Chopper. He is given the herculean task of being the film's conscience and acquits himself brilliantly.
To say Munich is an important film is to state the obvious, as parallels to the War on Terror exist in its very DNA. Spielberg frames his tale as a vintage '70s thriller, and, with the help of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, crafts a taut, engrossing thriller. It is flawed where it needs to be flawed, seamless where it needs to be seamless, and save for the somewhat unfortunate sex scene at the end, there may not be a wasted shot in the entire film. By any standard, this is a very good film, and by some standards it is a great one.
It would be easy for Spielberg, the world's most famous Jewish filmmaker, to approach a film about the 1972 Olympics from an entirely pro-Israel standpoint, to treat the group as an extension of God's righteous wrath, both terrible and just. But he doesn't. At multiple turns he questions Israel's motives, their evidence, even their fundamental choice of revenge. He allows the targets every opportunity to establish their humanity, and it is the humanity that plants the seeds of doubt in Avner's mind. It isn't hard to look at a photo of someone who's been called a terrorist and shoot them from a distance, like in a video game, but watch that same man kindly lecture outside a bookstore or make small talk with him on a hotel balcony and he becomes a real person, not just a target. Even the most heartless killer may hesitate before killing someone with whom he's shared a moment, no matter how small. As things progress and he gets sucked deeper into this world, Avner begins to realize that while his allegiance still lies with his home, that home is no longer a plot of land in the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea that's been designated as Israel, but with his family, where he can live in peace with his wife and child.
There's an old saying that "an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind", for it creates an entire cycle of violence that has no logical end. Did the Israeli government really think killing eleven of the terrorists would be it, that Palestine would say fair is fair and ask for a truce? Perhaps. But in that assumption they failed to see that the Munich Massacre was no doubt a response to something else, like the way Israel has treated the Palestinians in the years since being awarded their own country. To them, Munich evens the score for a previous transgression, so any response from Israel is a fresh assault on their people. Is that the healthiest world-view for Palestine to adopt? Perhaps not. But what's so refreshing about Munich is that Spielberg doesn't spend time taking sides with a country. Instead, he takes the side of peace, because when peace wins, everyone wins, and men like Avner can sleep at night.
For me, It's not a masterpiece, not a crap, not just an ordinary movie..Spielberg made this movie, and this movie has influence,and some sort of powers..Provided with good cast, which they show that they deserved their cast. Let's start with Eric Bana, he did good in this movie, show a really good emotional act, he could show progression from an amateur killer to pro..Daniel Craig? I think his act was better than "James Bond", show more "strength" in his performance..I'm quite understand why this movie nominated in best pict,screenplay,editing and director.The picture was 2 thumb up,screenplay? Wow.Editing? This movie has less unimportant event, and you don't have to ask why if you saw Spielberg's name on a movie. But beside that, I can't understand why this movie's score nominated. I barely heard any score played when I saw the movie..After all, you need to concentrate a little bit coz this movie is a little bit hard, and this movie is a good one. Last thing, you shouldn't miss this movie..
amazing film! this left me feeling so strange as to how it worked out, i did not know how to feel!
it made me angry and sad but happy at the same time. exstreamly moving film!
as someone said, in not taking sides, spielberg takes both sides. a general cry against violence under whatever name - terrorism, patriotism or counter-terrorism.
Ben Stone (Seth Rogen): "You know what movie I just saw again the other day, which is bleeping, like, mind-blowing and I haven't seen it since it came out is Munich."
Ben: "That movie was Eric Bana kicking fucking ass! Through every movie with Jews, we're the ones getting killed. Munich flips it on its ear. We're capping motherfuckers."
Jonah: "Not only killing but bleeping, like, taking names."
An excerpt from the film "Knocked Up" pretty much sums it up for me. Munich fucking rules. That's that. No questions asked.
When a group of Palestinians killed a bunch of Israelis in the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Israeli version of CIA - Mossad assigns the son of a war hero, Avner and four more people to hunt down and assassinate 11 people who had a hand in the Munich massacre. Avner is portrayed by Eric Bana. He played the role perfectly. He is the ultimate choice for the role of Avner. His emotions are so surreal it scares you.
The script is fantastic. I sometimes have problems with lengthy movies because sometimes its just two and a half hour of chock-full dialogues and the boredom sets in. But in Munich, I wanted more. The dialogues are there and at the same time the action is also present. Every hit they take is breath taking, like literally it will take your breath away. Its like going for a dip in an ocean and there's a shark behind you and you're scared as hell, that's the feeling that I felt every time they kill someone. Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Daniel Craig, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer and Geoffrey Rush co-stars and every each one of them were A-okay for me.
Director Steven Spielberg made an absolute masterpiece. Every little thing is perfect, the acting, the music, cinematography, editing every little bit is well planned and well executed.
This film is not black propaganda. Its an epic tale of vengeance, loyalty, betrayal and paranoia. Munich is a 5 and highly recommended.
Most ruthless movie made by Spielberg. Gripping story ignited by horrific events of summer 1972. Patriotism, vengeance, big politics - all of these lead to uncompromising solutions, but also to doubt, remorse and consciousness of a hopeless, lost cause.
a really good film that keeps you entertained and in suspense, te tension is superb and some of the scenes are ubelievablly gripping, but the film is also extremely long and sometimes a little bit too intense on small details but overal a very thought provoking and intriguing flick
A hard hitting film from Spielberg which is highly serious as oppose to his previous entry. It is brilliant in its look at the fuzzy line, but gets a bit carried away near the end.
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