A shocking but entertaining event

Rating: 8/10 (27 February 2006)

Munich is one of those movies which are quite hard to incorporate to any single movie genre. It includes at least action, drama, romance, thriller, adventure and maybe even a bit of comedy. It's like a mix of all those film categories in good ratio. Although, maybe the most surprising thing about the movie is that it is not so ordinary Spielberg film: it doesn't include such a happy ending (like for example Jurassic Park did), but in other hand it's more romantic, emotional and humorist compared to Saving Private Ryan. Concluded: Munich is a mix of thriller, action and drama movie and it contains a lot of violence and blood, but not as much as war movies as you can imagine.
The plot of the film is pretty intelligent: there are many twists and huge surprises and it's entertaining from the beginning to the end titles, during the whole time (almost three hours).
The camera angles works very well. The audience sees just as much as it should see. Not too much, not too less. The emotions are revealed clearly (thanks also to all the actors), but the acting isn't overacted, thought.
The music is once again composed by John Williams. Thanks to him, the music (once again) fits to the movie like nose to face and makes the film even more enjoyable. It would have been a huge mistake to put some metal trash music into this kind of marvelous art, I suppose. But I know that Spielberg wouldn't do anything stupid like that.
One of the most interesting things about the movie is that Spielberg reveals no doubt his critical political attitude in this movie (concerning about the real events in Munich in 1972). I don't want to spoil this subject anymore... In fact Spielberg tells one point of view about the happenings of the Munich bloodbath.
One of the most bothering issues in the whole movie (especially during the first minutes) was that Germans doesn't speak Germany but English. I understand that this an American film, but in my opinion it had been much better if all the Germany people had spoken Germany, not English. But that's not a big deal.
I don't have anything else to complain about this movie. All I can say is that Munich is a realistic movie about the real events of Munich bloodbath in 1972 Olympics, and it's made with a style. Once you've seen it movie, you're not going to forget it right away, and that's why Munich is really worth of seeing. So, what are you waiting for? Go and see it yourself.