intense, and not so much

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2006)

I knew very little of what happened during the 72 Olympic terrorist attacks and what happened afterwords.
There were some great performances. Eric Bana gives a great performance.
Spielberg can inspire great performances as shown in 'Munich' and his other previous movies. There were a few great emotional scenes but there were also some scenes that were serious but made you laugh.
One example is Bana screwing his wife and he whips back his head with sweat as he thinks about what happened in Munich. The scene is Munich was effective, it was when he was screwing his wife and thinking about Munich that made me laugh. Spielberg should have tried to explain the events of Munich another way. Another scene when they kill the female assassin had half of the theater laughing which is not a good sign with this kind of a movie.
It was hard to follow some of the plot. More emphasis should have been explained with the governments hoped to achieve from this operation, but I can see why they did this because the main characters are unaware with their government's plans and we can relate to their frustrations of getting the job done.
There were scenes that were very intense. A lot of the scenes captured the human emotion of the killings and the purpose of it all. If Spielberg would have made a few changes with some of the scenes then this could have been a fantastic film.
The movie had a few strong messages which relate to our current international surroundings. This movie relates to the morals of how we should deal with terrorists and when is a job truly done, at least that is what I got out of the movie.