Movies

Updated: 12/10/2006

Ratings 1: avoid -----> 5: Excellent.

Munich (2005): Rating: 5.

The trailer for this movie raised expectations high. Thankfully they were met. Highly stylish, great cast all wrapped up in a very mature and difficult to sell screenplay - the story shows sympathy for both sides, but never saying either is right. Rather it spells out all the levels of wrong. The human obsession for revenge and land. Killing when one of your own is killed, rather than mourning yet another death.

A very accomplished movie in all respects. The actual Munich event is shown beautifully, at various flash backs during the story. The deaths in the movie also stand out, brutal, realistic and senseless. Particularly the killing of the female assassin, in one instant you find yourself wishing her dead for what she did. In a split second you feel sorry and sick to have ever felt such as she slowly dies as a result of her wounds, desperately grabbing onto something (her cat) she loves before her life drains. The basic message is revenge doesn't work, instead we all lose more of ourselves, works well: But I'm not too sure of what was attempting to be achieved by the flash back during Bana's love making to his wife.

Another striking thing about this movie is that: as in real life, it doesn't have an ending (unusual to say the least for a Spielberg movie: where a good feel ending is always expected). Instead you are left with a final frame visual of an event that would later shock the world, but still afresh in all our memories:9/11..