Too Long, Too Moralistic, Too Violent

Rating: 5/10 (10 July 2014)

Steven Spielberg is a great filmmaker, he knows how to strike all the right notes and how to make deep, decent, sentimental albeit deeply moving powerful roller-coaster of an epic movie. Here, he aimed well, but missed several times. The very topic of Munich terrorist attacks is a huge theme which can be made into a riveting steamroller of action and suspense. But then, almost 3 hours, slow move, too much moralistic stuff, totally unnecessary sex scenes, brutal violence and too much blood make this seemingly good film a wreck. Eric Bana and Daniel Craig are both good, but not so very well to persuade us. The whole film slides along very slowly and it adds to the creepy dark air. The movie started very well, but then it all gets very dull and slower, then simply unbearably slow and yet violent. Not the best in SS's canon, not the best surely