Outline of long - ago terror

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2006)

I was astonished when I saw the first previews of Munich late last year. And I was amazed that Spielberg showed the guts to get his hands on quite a difficult plot while other directors unleash big monkeys on major cities.
However I was afraid that, despite the fact that Spielberg directed it, the movie might be a bit, too American, too Hollywoodish, too action-crammed to be informative.
But recalling Spielbergs work in Schindler's List and trying hard not to recall War of the Worlds, I found a way to the cinema. Well it does have one thing with unleashed monkeys in common: don't buy a big soda. The movie will last until the end of time.
Which is on the other hand not bad, because it passes time quite well, without being exactly entertaining. Which it of course, should not be. You cannot expect to see a work-over of a terrorist assault and walk out with a big smile on your face. It's not going to happen. So the movie does what I was hoping it would do. Display a story that makes you think, makes you wonder about terrorism, wonder about it in a serious, unarmed way.
Well sounds too good to be true if you are out to see a movie like Schindler's list, and I dare to also mention 8 mm here. And yes it is. Spielberg got the script of a children's play book, or mickey mouse, or I do not know what. Except for the perfect display of the location (even the street names are right), there is no truth in it. Surely the overall ending is still true, but the way things happen is just imagined.
That does not make it a bad movie though, as the bottom line is still kept.