Munich (4 of 5): Munich was directed by Steven Spielberg and quietly released last year to surprisingly little recognition or fanfare. Based on actual events, Munich is about Israel’s response to the tragic events of the Palestinian/Israeli hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. This movie follows five Israeli Mossad agents in their assignment to hunt down and assassinate the Palestinian men responsible for the tragedy. I really liked this movie. It has a lot of great moments of suspense and intrigue and balances character development with action sequences quite well. I would not classify this movie as being political, but it does touch on the political intricacies of the Israel/Palestine region and raises some excellent questions regarding the appropriateness of response methods to terrorist threats – topics still applicable today, 34 years later. Eric Bana is excellent in this film and proves he can play a major lead role as Avner, leader of the Mossad agents. Bana plays the interesting dichotomy of his character as both family-man and assassin quite well, particularly towards the end of the film when the personal effects of Avner’s actions are revealed. It is unfortunate that this movie did not get more Oscar recognition because it is an excellent film. Check it out.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Movie Review - Munich
Munich (4 of 5): Munich was directed by Steven Spielberg and quietly released last year to surprisingly little recognition or fanfare. Based on actual events, Munich is about Israel’s response to the tragic events of the Palestinian/Israeli hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. This movie follows five Israeli Mossad agents in their assignment to hunt down and assassinate the Palestinian men responsible for the tragedy. I really liked this movie. It has a lot of great moments of suspense and intrigue and balances character development with action sequences quite well. I would not classify this movie as being political, but it does touch on the political intricacies of the Israel/Palestine region and raises some excellent questions regarding the appropriateness of response methods to terrorist threats – topics still applicable today, 34 years later. Eric Bana is excellent in this film and proves he can play a major lead role as Avner, leader of the Mossad agents. Bana plays the interesting dichotomy of his character as both family-man and assassin quite well, particularly towards the end of the film when the personal effects of Avner’s actions are revealed. It is unfortunate that this movie did not get more Oscar recognition because it is an excellent film. Check it out.
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Great. I know it to be a depressing movie and I think that's why I haven't seen it. Now, I'll have to go see it.
:)
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