when will it end?

Rating: 1/10 (8 January 2006)

The real question posed by this movie is not when will the middle east violence end(hint: it has something to do with oil), but when will this bad movie end? At 3 hours, the film would have worked better if they dropped the flashback scenes to Munich, dropped the preachy confrontations and re-cast more unknown actors than Eric(Blackhawk Down Hulk) Bana and Geoffrey (better as a prissy pirate) Rush. Spielburg really treats the audience like idiots by dressing the terrorists in the flashback scenes with obvious tacky 70's visual costume cues (terrorist #1 in white ladies hat, terrorist #2 in cowboy hat) that I kept thinking about the excellent Spike Jonez/Beastie Boys music video 'Sabotage' with it's costumed parody. And here's the real clincher towards the end that made me sigh - when the Hulk is making crazy assassin love to his wife, his climaxing scene is inter-cut with flashbacks to the assassination of the hostages and Beastie Boys crew in Munich. I also was having painful flashbacks during this time of the cash I paid to support this crap from a director who needs to try a little more nuance and innovation.