This movie is in one word "Poor"

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2006)

I went to see this movie after watching the trailer and hearing about it a few weeks before its release. This was my kind of movie and i went to it with good hopes and an open mind. I am not the kind of person who gets political or hates Israel or the Arabs, i watch movies as movies. I must say that this movie could have been a lot better if many things were fixed. It felt all wrong to me. First of all this hit squad was sloppy and simply incompetent. Everything is sloppy and it makes this movie very unrealistic and it is difficult to buy the story from beginning to end. Avner is a poor leader, his source of intel is questionable, he is not a professional Mossad agent, the whole movie feels like he doesn't know what he is doing. He is supposed to be a highly trained agent, efficient and and a pro at what he does, his crew is underequipped and the bombmaker turns out to botch several jobs. This top secret hit squad is supposed to be so clandestine that not even Mossad can contact him, but since many of the missions are disasters, eventually Avner himself gets tracked down. The dialogue is confusing, and frankly there is too much of it. I feel the people who made this movie tried to do too much with it and ultimately made it confusing, unclear, and long and boring. What needs to be changed is this... Less talk, more killing, a more realistic hit squad, and some clarity on this source guy. Mossad should have been giving intel to Avner. There is so many things that feel wrong that it took away a lot from this movie. This movie was about revenge, ones conflict with himself about killing people who he doesn't even know did anything wrong, a government who sent a hit squad to kill arabs to scare the arab world, and make us think about whether all this killing will eventually end and there will be peace.