Munich, where acting is at top form

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2006)

"Munich" starts off showing how the massacre of 1972 started, and then it takes the viewers for a ride as it shows the men that tracked the men involved with the attack, and what their job was during this horrible time. Steven Spielberg rebounds from that mess of an action/sci-fi movie known as "War of the Worlds." He casts rarely seen talent Eric Bana (last in Troy) and the new James Bond Daniel Craig (Layer Cake) as two of his five mercenaries hired to take out the terrorists. The movie is slow at times, but I think Spielberg did this to let the audience get engaged with the men involved and not with just what they are doing, because both aspects are important in this film. One thing that I enjoyed in the movie was the violence. I thought maybe that he would cut down the violence to get a PG13 rating, but he kept it realistic and gritty. Bana and Craig turn in two of the better performances that I've seen from them. Geoffry Rush also does a good job as their secret boss, whose really not their boss, if you catch my drift. Spielberg leads us on a violent mission through these gentleman's lives, but slows it down a little at the end, however, I enjoyed the movie very much, and look forward to seeing it again.