Munich was Spielberg at his medium to good-great

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2005)

"Munich" was a good movie. I liked it. It showed a lot of mindfulness. It was good and I liked it. It shows that violence solves very little, but that people still have a strong impulse toward "an eye for an eye," and that given particular circumstances, it's all very complicated and hard to figure out.
The movie itself was great, in that it left you with the feeling that "you were on your own," in regard to resolving the pain, conflict, and political problems inherent in the struggle against terrorism / resolution of the Mideast conflict.
As far as the Mideast conflict goes, the state of Israel has a right to exist and so does a Palestinian state have the right to exist.
The following is just an observation -- not a judgment call -- but I couldn't even picture Israelis trespassing onto an Olympic compound and murdering fellow human beings (( Maybe if they were very far right-wingers ?? )) Then again, they have a thriving country out there. If they were living the way some of the Palestinians have to live, maybe they'd find killing easy and not have to go through some of the soul-searching Avner has to go through.
But I digress from the movie. Anyway, I guess there are just three races of people -- kind and unassuming . . . hateful and murderous . . . and Spielberg imitators. If only we had his money . . . and Tom Cruise's . . . and Tom Jones'.