Slow, but beautiful

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2006)

I have never really been a fan of agent movies, you know, the kind of movies where an agent clad in a trench coat forms a team and tries to fulfill some goal, which he of course always does. I see for example Michael Caine i big glasses.
Munich is fresh and interesting because the Cause is not the main theme in the movie. Instead it has its focus on the change in the character Avner, who is introduced as a devoted patriot. He is however forced to question his task, as it becomes increasingly difficult to see what good it does to murder leaders who are quickly replaced by others.
Spielberg also gives us a revival of American 70-s movies, with the slow but tense storytelling. Yes, there is the classical conflict and the deepening of the same, but the audience is given time to reflect during the watching. The movie is not about absolute good fighting and winning over absolute evil, as in the fairy tales or many of the 80-s and 90-s movies, but is instead told in a beautiful and interesting multi coloured scale.