Violent yet powerful story of the men who tracked and assassinated those perpetrating the 1972 kidnap and murder of Israele athletes at the Munich Olympics

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2005)

Riveting and powerful, with strong performance; Eric Bana especially good. Best movie this year. Touching love story as subplot. Much violence, lots of spurting blood; beautifully filmed with good shots of Paris but many dark rainy nights on the streets -- a little too James Bond some times. Ciaran Hinds also very good but fake international German Hebrew accents at times detracted from the generally good dialog. Fabulous score by John Williams; great work by Spielberg with the overall theme that violence just begets more violence. Super character development of Avner, the lead played by Bana. At the end, the viewer is inside his poor paranoid head. Don't miss this one.