The Speilberg has no clothes

Rating: 3/10 (14 April 2020)

A take on the Emperor has no clothes. This is a sad, propaganda, contrite and over wrought film. The problem: Spielberg. Maybe I am the only one, but I find Spielberg to be just terrible at films. His ego is out of control. His actual sensitivity to real and actual people is none. This is such an important story, and by all means it should have been made. Perhaps it is time to remake it, with a different group. We are supposed to believe that regular people from off the street organized, stalked and killed the terrorists who planned the killings and kidnappings of Israeli athletes in Munich. There is an underlying falseness to this work, as there is to almost everything Spielberg touches. Spielberg is famous for making stories like this that set us all up for the accusation that we must be anti-jewish if we do not like his work. That is such nonsense. Spielberg, simply, is just a terrible teller of stories. He is a poser with money, and somehow, because of his "influence" he makes works of absolute mediocrity that get awards, that get parised but are almost all absolutely forgettable. This track them down and blow them up movie is tired, boring and not really believable. Like many people, I thought the events depicted in this film were horrific and yes, Israel should have done all it could do to bring the perps to justice. But a self-serving, over wrought film like this is not justice for anyone. It is sadly a product by the most over-rated film maker of my lifetime. Yes, you should probably watch this film for its historic significance but not for any truth it could have told, because it does not tell any truths, it only tells us about Spielberg and his massive ego.