Spielberg's plea for change

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2006)

All hail to Steven Spielberg for a change in direction, for not picking the usual Hollywooders and for taking a more political approach as opposed to the usual nostalgic and/or entertaining approach, here he takes no sides in the Israel conflict, but instead shows us the wrongdoings of both. That said, it is not brilliantly clever as some point it to be. Its good, but important things is left unsaid.
'Munich's merits as a movie however is a bit lacking. For realism, it's good and gory, too gory for my tastes. And for a three hours long movie it's quite tedious in a few places.
Salut to a big player that throw in a burning torch (at least for the average Spielberg-crowd) into the masses in difficult times. It's almost a hip thing these days.