Oscar nomination for Munich - how could this happen!!!?

Rating: 4/10 (2 February 2006)

How could anyone so indulgently spend so much money to make such a tedious movie. I know I was not the only person in the theatre looking at my watch. Spielberg should be given a slap for every cliché.
One doesn't have to take sides to know murder is wrong whatever the circumstances, but Speilbergs attempt to humanize both Mossad and the terrorists is downright embarrassing. The slaughter at the Munich Olympics followed by the revenge killings was a rough, brutal moment in our history and I feel this movie totally missed the point. I expected a sharp, violent depiction but instead was presented with simplistic, sentimental soap.
Others I have spoken to had a similar response. One left the movie without empathy and no interest in what it had to say.