Munich
Following the Olympics games in Munich, where 11 Israeli players have been hijacked and murdered by terrorists, the thing that makes the Israeli rage and resentment upon finding out the suspects, so they ask a group of Mossed agents who follow the suspect leaders and murder them brutally.
24 September 1921, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 January 1971, Bayonne, France
30 November 1964, Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales, UK
6 July 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
26 October 1953, Israel
16 July 1970, Israel
7 March 1978, Lyon, France
26 October 1965, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
19 February 1979, Algiers, Algeria
March 22, 2016
It's an incoherent film, as if Spielberg desperately wanted to say something important and could only come to the conclusion that killing is bad and we're all human.
November 07, 2012
This punishing, borderline amoral picture is Spielberg at his most bleak, and most challenging. It refuses to pick sides and resonates in unsettling ways.
December 27, 2005
Munich ricochets all over the place, but it hits its target dead-on.
August 20, 2010
Spielberg described Munich as his 'prayer for peace,' yet his movie strangely lacks the eloquence and yearning of a prayer.
December 27, 2005
The ultimate problem with Munich is that it's looking for a clear-cut answer that doesn't exist. And while it frames its final act as an argument, it's an argument it's having with itself.
December 27, 2005
Everything that keeps it from being lovable could be looked upon as a virtue, and everything about it is intentional.
December 27, 2005
It's a brutal, merciless, somber picture, utterly devoid of the heart-tugging sentimentality that always creeps into even his best films. It is also, unfortunately, timid when it should be bold and clunky when it should be eloquent.
December 27, 2005
Like the superior Syriana, this isn't a Middle Eastern tale that offers much hope. It's just bloodstained history. And if we don't remember that history, Spielberg says, we learn nothing.
February 23, 2015
Munich is more measured and classy than Spielberg's action-adventures.
December 27, 2005
It's a smart, mesmerizing and often angry film, from a truly confident filmmaker, but it remains, maddeningly, just beyond our grasp.
April 08, 2011
Munich is an important story to be sure but an important movie isn't the same as a great one. It's told in such a muddled way the message is easily lost, except for the moments when it is hammered home at the cost of story-telling believability.
