"an eye for an eye"

Rating: 9/10 (22 January 2006)

after reading previous comments, i am disgusted by the people who watched this movie and saw avner and the four others on their mission as "the good guys." i wasn't on anyone's side. what i gained from this movie is an understanding of how deeply rooted the hatred is between israelis and palestinians and how the fighting may never stop. i think this movie showed why the principle of "an eye for an eye" is so detrimental to everyone involved. avner and the others went after these terrorists, to find and kill them, but what happened next? all of the people they killed were replaced by even more radical leaders. 3 out of 5 on the team were hunted and killed, and avner was being hunted by the PLO when the movie ended. he was going crazy with fear. ultimately, his mission to kill these terrorists had done nothing but create more death and strife. if the movie had continued, probably all 5 on the team would have been killed, realistically. the movie also showed a personal side to each person the team killed--the man in the hotel who offered avner sleeping pills, the guy in Paris with the little daughter playing the piano, etc--no one in their right mind watching this movie should have been thinking "yeah! go kill them!" after meeting each of the terrorists avner and the team were after. i really don't think this movie was biased, or trying to make the viewer see one side as evil and the other as good. it was trying to represent the seriousness and the hopelessness of the situation in israel/palestine.