butchers' hands, and gentle souls.

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2006)

Munich sounds like a catchy name, doesn't it? And the topic of this movie is, to say the least, a hot one. When you enter a movie with such a hot topic like Munich, a topic on which you've already formed a somewhat strong opinion, you hunger to criticize the flick. That was the case with me. But after seeing this movie, my head was full of unanswered question on which I had to find new answers.
Obviously this movie is after Schindler's List Spielberg's second movie that touches the subject of Jews. But in this movie he takes no sides. He sympathizes with both the Jews and the Palestinians. Maybe "sympathize" is too strong a word. I'd rather say he let's us see both sides of the coin. The movie has no real good or bad guy. I would define the main character of the movie as an antihero who slowly gets into trouble with his moral guidelines.
Spielberg chose to give this movie a dark tone and an unsettling (brilliant) score that puts us viewers in a constantly alarmed mood. Each time the assassins take down one of their targets the heartbeat like score forces us to ask: Are they doing the right thing? And the general style of the movie seemed to me similar to the, in my opinion great style of The French Connection.
Like all the Spielberg movies, this movie is relies more on it's story than on the performances of the cast. But nevertheless the cast delivers a solid performance. Eric Bana doesn't fail to carry the movie with some strong assistance from actors like Geoffrey Rush. He was very believable as the lone Israeli assassin who at first gets hunted by moral questions and finally becomes the prey himself.