Did I miss something?

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2006)

I am surpsied that so many people loved this movie, I for one could not stand most of it. How did you not find this a complete affront to the situation between Israel and Palestine?? Are you not offended that there is a lot of money being made from this? Isn't anyone else bothered by the Hollywood-esq "action-assassin-character" formula used to portray the Isralies? Each one has "their own specialty and they are back with a vengeance to give those other murderers what they asked for..(insert rest of cheesy trailer voice-over line here." These are real people being killed off, and I felt that there was no insight aside from obvious things like the WTC in the background at the end. The only thing Steven Spielberg made clear is that this violence will continue forever.
I thought it was offensive to make an action movie out of this subject matter, SS is making $$ off of these people's tragedies!! How can you say this movie is a masterpiece???? It's garbage, and I am sorry that I gave my 10 dollars towards this. Next time I will research a bit more before going to see a movie because my fiancé wanted to.
And the scene at the end when he is screaming while having sex his wife and flashing back to people being massacred, GIVE ME A BREAK. That was the stupidist thing I have ever seen.
This whole movie is all about real people dying, and both parties are at fault. Both parties are murdering in each other; I already knew that about the situation in the Middle East. How about some insight into why the hostage crises took place and what went on before it? Also, all of you saying this has "great action" should really think twice about what exactly you are watching. If they made an "action" movie about Sept 11th you all would be throwing bottles at the screen.