Payback Is Hell

Rating: 7/10 (9 January 2006)

I checked CONTAINS SPOILER because I want to come to it at the outset. There is no way I'll ever believe that any Israeli chosen, in collaboration with Mossad, to assassinate the Fedayeen who murdered the Israeli athletes at Munich could have shown any bit of remorse over those justifiable revenge killings. Yet, Spielberg would have us believe that Eric Bana, in the role of Avner, did and so much in fact, that Geoffrey Rush, playing a chief Mossad agent,refuses to break bread with the man out of contempt and disgust. I didn't remember that much about the Munich Massacre but after witnessing the event all over again,one is so livid, especially in light of 9/11,that anything goes regarding the permanent removal of the responsible Palestinian Fedayeen terrorists. Need I express my letdown by the conclusion of this film and if the government of Israel has a grievance against Spielberg, it is justified.