Right message with a somewhat bumpy plot.

Rating: 8/10 (9 January 2006)

Munich isn't the kind of movie that you walk away from feeling jolly and light-hearted. It is in many ways sickening, but I'm sure that Spielberg wanted it to have such an effect on its audience.
Munich's plot revolves around the assassinations carried out by Mossad agents against terrorists suspected of planning the 1972 Olympic kidnappings and murders of Israeli athletes. It is graphic and disturbing, but it effectively decries the violence perpetrated by both sides in the conflict.
I felt that Munich didn't do a good enough job developing characters and their relationships, but other than that, Munich was a very good movie. It's central theme was home. All any Israeli or Palestinian wants is a place to call home to share with his/her family. It also effectively showed that violence only begets more violence and that the only solution that will work in the conflict is one that does not involve revenge killings.