Munich

Munich: Another Steven Spielberg masterpiece. The story starts out with the 1972 Olympics that were held in Munich Germany. 11 Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed by Palestinian terrorists. Israel then wanted to have their revenge and take out all the men responsible for the Munich horror. We follow along a hit squad as they make their way all over Europe hunting down their targets. Eric Bana plays Avner – who heads up the group, he is the key to the film getting its message across…..he does an excellent job. Things do not go perfect for the Israeli group, taking out their targets is much harder than expected. The message of the film is how getting revenge only leads to more revenge form the other side……when will it all end? - We are still waiting for it. The beauty is seeing Avner realize that no good is being done on either side. Spielberg then uses the last shot of the film to drive the message home -done to perfection. Only thing keeping this from a perfect score was I felt it ran a little too long.

* * * and ½

With a run time of 174 minutes
This film is rated R