Munich (2005)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 164m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
Following the slaughter of thirteen Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Israeli Prime Minister authorizes Mossad to send an agent into the field with a team to track down and liquidate eleven names associated with the Black September operation. Before completing his task he finds himself questioning the effectiveness of the policy and altered by the acts of terror he himself has now committed.
Review:
Long, elaborately detailed and absorbing reconstruction of the shape a now widely acknowledged covert reprisal operation might have taken. Spielberg's ambivalent moral stance is never in doubt; the violence is dispassionate and never does one feel the sense of catharsis many fictional revenge dramas engender, because there is no closure, just an unending sequence of jobs to be done and money to change hands. The production is flawless in its period detail and the acting absolutely first rate, with nice casting of the two French actors in their roles. Surely the most adult film the director has made to date, including Schindler's List.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 164m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
Following the slaughter of thirteen Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Israeli Prime Minister authorizes Mossad to send an agent into the field with a team to track down and liquidate eleven names associated with the Black September operation. Before completing his task he finds himself questioning the effectiveness of the policy and altered by the acts of terror he himself has now committed.
Review:
Long, elaborately detailed and absorbing reconstruction of the shape a now widely acknowledged covert reprisal operation might have taken. Spielberg's ambivalent moral stance is never in doubt; the violence is dispassionate and never does one feel the sense of catharsis many fictional revenge dramas engender, because there is no closure, just an unending sequence of jobs to be done and money to change hands. The production is flawless in its period detail and the acting absolutely first rate, with nice casting of the two French actors in their roles. Surely the most adult film the director has made to date, including Schindler's List.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 164m
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Geoffrey Rush, Michel Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
Following the slaughter of thirteen Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, the Israeli Prime Minister authorizes Mossad to send an agent into the field with a team to track down and liquidate eleven names associated with the Black September operation. Before completing his task he finds himself questioning the effectiveness of the policy and altered by the acts of terror he himself has now committed.
Review:
Long, elaborately detailed and absorbing reconstruction of the shape a now widely acknowledged covert reprisal operation might have taken. Spielberg's ambivalent moral stance is never in doubt; the violence is dispassionate and never does one feel the sense of catharsis many fictional revenge dramas engender, because there is no closure, just an unending sequence of jobs to be done and money to change hands. The production is flawless in its period detail and the acting absolutely first rate, with nice casting of the two French actors in their roles. Surely the most adult film the director has made to date, including Schindler's List.