The movie is scarily relevant to today

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2006)

This is the best movie I have seen all year. Good acting, directing, fast-moving storyline, large moral questions, it's all there. I started watching it at midnight but it kept me up for it's 3 hour length and then some.
The violence is realistic and horrific, especially in the scene at the dutch woman's house. You really don't expect it from a Spielberg movie, especially after his chain of ho-hum movies such as the Terminal and Catch Me If You Can. This movie is gripping and emotional from start to finish. I believe that the movie gives fair treatment to both sides of the Israeli, Palestinian issue and explores why it's such a difficult conflict with no easy answers. Largely the movie is just another spin on why vengeance is never good, but this is the human drama that will keep playing itself out because it is in our nature.
Finally, the tones of terrorism throughout the movie make it eerily relevant to today. The events took place not very long ago, and we still live in a world with terrorists and if we terrorize the terrorists in revenge then what makes us any different. In the final scene, the twin towers were digitally added to the center of the shot. The message couldn't be any clearer.