Another Spielberg Wonder

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2005)

Out of the gate, political questions aside, this picture is directed brilliantly and, to my continuing amazement regarding Spielberg, with new methods of displaying action and pictorial picture telling. Years ago, it took a while for me to be impressed with Spielberg. In recent years, he seems as though he can do little wrong. His maturity as a story teller and his development of endless methods of telling his stories visually makes each of his movies a fresh experience.
MUNICH is a sobering picture about a weighty topic and manages, with few exceptions (and those exceptions could easily be cut), to deal with moral and ethical questions with an artful minimum of intellectuality. The implications of being involved in a political war are always brought to a personal level, where they should be. And doing it this way, without any solid answers, leaves the situation in the middle east, as far as the story goes, an open question. Spielberg doesn't attempt to put any exclamation point on the moral justification of what we see in this movie.