Touching Wires.

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2005)

A Mossad agent (Eric Bana) and his team of assassins (Daniel Craig, Ciaran Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz and Hanns Zischler) are hired by Golda Meir (Lynn Cohen) and the Israeli government to seek out and kill 11 Palestinian terrorist syndicates who directly and sometimes indirectly had a hand in the tragic killings of Israel's Olympic Team in the summer of 1972. "Munich" is an unyielding political thriller that becomes more psychological as it advances. Bana and his partners have bouts of conscience, total fits of despair and constant motivational dilemmas. Shady characters galore (Michael Lonsdale and Mathieu Amalric) and Bana's female connections back home (wife Ayelet Zorer and mother Gila Almagor) add to the film's depth and wide-reaching personal network. Geoffrey Rush nearly steals the show in limited screen time as the Israeli liaison and seductress Marie-Josee Croze tantalizes and torments. Steven Spielberg does his best work since "Saving Private Ryan" and does arguably his most complex work since "Schindler's List". While not his best film by a mile, it is still probably his most interesting and intriguing. Though a bit long and at times difficult to follow, "Munich" definitely takes a place with the better films of 2005. 4.5 out of 5 stars.