Bore, bored, boring

Rating: 2/10 (24 April 2013)

Spielberg has lost his touch for making thrillers. I found this film so boring. This could have been such a good film. Instead, it plods on at a snail's pace. A lot of the dialogue, particularly at the beginning is foreign and some of it isn't even subtitled. When Spielberg started his movie career, he was touted as the modern day Hitchcock and I would go along with that. His early films such as Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan etc were all entertaining films which held your attention to the end. Of late, he has concentrated on 'pet' projects personal to himself and a select few which have been mediocre at best at the box office. This particular film is based on real events and follows the 'work' of the Israeli Secret Service tracking down and eliminating the Arab terrorists they believe had a hand in the killing of Israeli Olympic athletes. But even this takes such a long time, you give up caring. As I said, it had the potential of being a first class film. Instead, Spielberg has made a mess.