Apologist garbage

Rating: 3/10 (13 January 2006)

MUNICH is Steven Spielberg's film about the alleged squad of deep cover Mossad agents sent out by Golda Meir and Israel to assassinate 11 people believed to be behind the Black September Hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Either all the reviewers who saw this movie saw a different cut of it than I did, or they are simply drawing conclusions that are neither argued by the film nor realized by the main character.
This is one of the most boring and disappointing movies of Spielberg's that I have seen in recent years. And that is after THE TERMINAL and WAR OF THE WORLDS.
However, because of the wretchedness of the script and general waste of the actors (who all attempt to elevate the awful material) it is apparent that this is one of Director of Photography Janusz Kaminski's finest works.
The use of "70s" styles in zoom, color palette, movement are combined skillfully with more modern techniques. However, all this is in service of an apologist diatribe about why Israel should behave like animals because they're "enemy" is willing to sink lower. However, the film instead ended up being proof positive regarding the "righteousness" of the Israeli revenge.
Not a good movie. Not worth seeing. Shameful, really.