In some ways it worked, in many ways it was terrible

Rating: Null/10 (4 March 2006)

To begin I have to say I can see in some ways why other people may have liked this movie. The movie moves along well enough, and the general storyline is engaging.
That said I have strongly felt, since "A.I.," that Spielberg is a disturbed individual. "Munich" did not change my opinion. In two cases I found what I felt to be gratuitous sexualized violence (the killing of the Dutch woman and the final "love scene"). I suspect Spielberg was going for some grittiness in those scenes, but it felt hollow and unnecessary to me. Another word that comes to mind is "exploitative."
The lack of subtleness in the Golda Meir and the "you look like your mother" part, which I found to be mind-numbing, is essentially repeated again and again throughout the movie. Wait, what? We're (Americans) suppose to identify with Avner and see our own War on Terror in the same light? No way! Could the fact that all of the Israelis speak English and the final scene with the Twin Towers in the background made that point a little more obvious?
Yeah, OK, if the initial scene's dialog had been in Hebrew with English subtitles the movie would never have done well with American audiences, I can accept that part. But given the subject matter and the analogy Spielberg is making, it would've added a lot of subtlety and reduced the opportunity for criticizing the film for having a pro-Israel bias.