Review of Munich (2005) by Gavin M — 24 Feb 2015

A very bold scale into Jewish revenge. "Munich" is without a doubt one of Spielberg's greatest features since "Saving Private Ryan" in my opinion. I loved every minute of this movie and even though I am not Jewish, but Irish by blood, I connected very heavily with this movie and it's theme. And that theme is vengeance. We have all been down that path of vengeance before one way or another, or at least I have. Going toe to toe with my brother all the time has definitely made me think of a lot of way to get back at him physically and mentally, and even though I may of done stuff out of anger against him and believe me I am learning very heavily today to not let my anger get the better of me, for that only brings me down to a further level; a level that no one should ever go down. It's okay to get pissed off here and there, hell I think sometimes depending on the circumstances it's okay to beat the shit out of someone who deserves it for being an asshole all the time. But with "Munich" the scale of revenge goes a whole lot deeper....it attacks the soul. You see it very heavily in this movie with the four actors in the movie who play the Israeli assassins out for blood against the Arab terrorist who killed the Israeli Olympics in Munich, Germany 1972. A nation that is so worshiped on peace and salvation seeking vengeance against another group who killed their own people and going out for blood is definitely worth seeing in my eyes. Especially if you have someone like Steven Spielberg directing it, who like I said before has made one of his best movies since "Saving Private Ryan," and it just reminded watching this movie why Spielberg will go down as the greatest director that has ever lived...right next to Martin Scorsese. When you say Steven Spielberg's name a whole bunch of movies hit your head automatically, "Jaws," "Close Encounter's of the Third Kind," "Indiana Jones," "Schindler's List," "Jurassic Park," "Amistad," "Saving Private Ryan," "Catch Me If You Can," "The Terminal," "Minority Report," "Lincoln," the list goes on and on, which just says one thing about the man....he's a fucking class A movie maker. Spielberg has without a doubt made the most popular movies ever known to man. I'm sure if look up in the "1,001Movies You Need to See Before You Die" book most of the movies that you should see are Spielberg's. And I'm not saying that the other director's movies out there are not worth remembering too, I mean for Pete sake you got Scorsese, Michael Mann, Terrence Malick, Brian DePalma, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, but when you say Spielberg you literally think of nothing, but great movies. And that is why it is a dead tie between him and Scorsese for me because they are both awesome at what they do and they are great friends in real life, always showing up at each others movie sets. I believe that is why I am drawn to the two of them and their movies so much. But getting back to "Munich" this is a movie will admit I could have easily have seen gone towards Scorsese at one point, but the fact that it went to Spielberg himself, makes this for me and I can't speak for him, a personal film just like "Schindler's List." Eric Bana who delivers without a doubt his best performance as Avner, a devoted husband with a baby on the way, who is recruited by the Israeli army after the attack on Munich and is asks to undertake a mission and he cannot talk about to anyone, not even his family...and it they remind him it's extremely dangerous. Once he accepts after some heavy thinking, he meets with his case officer played fabulously be Geoffrey Rush, who tells him once he takes the mission he signs a contract, it's a contract that shows he has no contract and that he no longer a citizen of Israel. He has no dental insurance, health insurance, nothing. He does not exist. This is incase he is captured, the Israeli government can deny his existence that way they can deny any involvement with the mission to track and kill 11 Palestinians who they believe had a hand in planning the Munich massacre. Geoffrey Rush goes into to great detail with it as Bana and him walk the boardwalk as Geoffrey Rush eats his box of sweets. He tells Bana you are going to kill them one by one, all 11 names and that he will be working with 4 others, men he does not know. This is where Daniel Craig(The driver), Ciran Hinds(Clean up), Matthieu Kassovitz(Bomb maker) and Hanns Zischler(The accountant) come in and they work together to take out the 11Palestinian names given to them by the Israeli.

Government. This is without a doubt a very bold and compelling and intense film to watch and what makes it really great is that one by one they each question what they are doing, "How do we know these are the correct names?" "Why are we trusting these sources given to us?" "Are we doing the right thing?" Their morals all come into question as their path of vengeance goes deep and deeper with every name they kill. And the score by John Williams is so intense to listen too that is without a doubt one of his best scores for Steven Spielberg's movies ever in my opinion. This is a movie to not be missed by all Spielberg fans and to especially see Daniel Craig joining the team just days after he was announce as the new James Bond while this movie was being filmed.

See it, watch it, and study it. It's a very important film and one that I.

Hope is around for ages.