pretty hopeless of a movie from Spielberg

Rating: 7/10 (12 May 2006)

Munich, or Black September has always remained a sensitive issue with all Jews. This effort by Steven Spielberg as we all know is a effort by him to redeem the events that happened some 34 years ago. The movie starts off as we know, Eric Bana son of a super secret agent is hired as a group leader to assassinate eleven people who were *supposedly* behind the Munich massacre. The group starts off, travels all over Europe eliminating targets, until they find out that they themselves have become the targets and their cover has been compromised. Then they start to fight for their own existence as their own people starts getting knocked off.
The brilliance of Spielberg is evident when he finishes off the movie in an abstract fashion. From start till the end we have seen Eric Bana bear a deep hatred for the Arabs and a national pride. Somewhat through the movie he meets up with an Arab extremist and he realizes that they are on the same boat. Both are killers just fighting on the opposite side. In the end, thats what happens. He learns that of the 11 targets he was to finish, only 1 was the mastermind, the rest else were either suspects with no real proof, or sum one who had been involved against some anti Jewish movement in the past. He realizes the nature of the world has made him to be a terrorist just like the Arabs from Black September, no different. He realizes the pain of the Jewsh athletes when they die, knowing that they cant do anything to save themselves and it was their own country that let them down rather than the Arabs assassinating them. An individual brilliance of Eric Bana, with some witty direction by Spielberg is all that you can expect from Munich. It's a thriller, but Spielberg has made better movies I can assure you.
A 7/10 !!