masterpiece? puhlease!

Rating: 2/10 (22 January 2006)

What a stinker. After reading about Spielberg's displeasure with regards to his studios apparent favoritism of Brokeback Mountain over Munich I felt compelled to give it a go and what a mistake. Anyone looking to catch up on their sleep will be pleasantly surprised. This thing sucked. Political ideologies aside, it was just plain boring. The fact that Israel sanctioned the assassination of the Munich terrorists would itself seem to foster an interesting enough screenplay but Spielberg manages to take any excitement and/or intrigue and bog it down with tiresome dialogue, bad accents and contrived characters. I found myself looking at my watch repeatedly wishing this steamer would end. Spielberg, check your ego at the door next time and leave the directing to someone with a pulse.