Not bad

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2006)

Munich, the newest film by director Steven Spielberg is an okay film, not one of his best by any means but not one of his worst either. My real complaint was that it was VERY long (at 164 minutes - and it FEELS like 164+ minutes). Because of it's enormous length, the pacing for me was really really slow and made me look at my watch a number of times during the screening. And though Eric Bana and the supporting cast did a wonderful job in their roles, they are given an okay script (with a few touching moments I do admit) to work with - but also I felt very detached from the characters (I can't really explain why but whereas in other Spielberg's films I was able to feel the emotional pull of a certain character, this wasn't one of those films). Well, regardless, it is a Spielberg film and you should watch it if only for that reason - a 7 out of 10.