Munich

Rating: 3/10 (24 December 2005)

Munich was excruciatingly long and BORING! Why was Kushner asked to to screenplay: "....Kushner, who laughably stated in the Time magazine piece that he "never likes to draw lessons for people," calls the establishment of the State of Israel "for the Jewish people a historical, moral, political calamity  I wish the modern Israel hadn't been born." He slanders the Israeli Defense Forces, snootily declaring, "I deplore the brutal and illegal tactics of the Israeli Defense Forces in the occupied territories  Jews, of all people, with our history of suffering, should refuse to treat our fellow human beings like that." Allowing Kushner to write what will probably be seen as the definitive movie on the slaughter of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics is somewhat like allowing Ramsey Clark to write the definitive account of United States foreign policy in the Middle East...."