Easily one of the best movies of 2005

Rating: 9/10 (23 January 2019)

29 December 2005. This taut dramatic thriller personalizes and humanizes man's efforts to seek revenge and the difficult turmoil over the violence that overcomes us when it comes to religion and terrorism. Munich brings its audience into the personal lives of assassins who have been selected to seek revenge for the Munich Olympic murders of Israeli athletes. This mission is stark, violent, and tragic as well as human and personal as Spielberg offers a human face to all the characters both Israeli and Arab. This a powerful movie that offers its viewers a harsh, tragic look at a husband and a young fighter for his country who undergoes a personal struggle for meaning and devotion to his country and his family while trying to negotiate the often murky and dark world of intelligence and betrayal. This is a wonderful, compelling movie, one of the best of the year. Nine out of Ten Stars.