Review of Munich (2005) by Kevin D — 18 Dec 2010

If you're going to see this movie, make sure you know about the Munich back story and the politics between the Palestinians and Israelis beforehand. I went into this movie knowing nothing about the aforementioned politics and I suffered the consequences. However, there are some good things about this film.

There is good film making on display and a lot of the assassination scenes are legitimately thrilling. I lost interest in this film when the assassination team invaded some other people, I don't know who the people were because it wasn't explained. After that moment, the film is basically a work of fiction and imagination and if you don't know your Palestinian politics you won't know what's going on either. Steven Spielberg and the screenwriter are at fault for this disappointing film because in my opinion, they did not do a good job at telling a story. The screenplay was poorly written as well. The dialogue was straight-forward and the actors did their best with the sloppy script.

The characters were poorly written also. I didn't care for them. Apparently they wanted us to care for Eric Bana because he is in every single scene in this movie, not counting the opening scene where the Munich tragedy begins. Do you know what that tells me? The film makers had no confidence in putting other characters on the screen because they had no faith in the other characters. Obviously they copped out and just had a boring and uninteresting protagonist in every scene. Film noirs and biopics are known for putting the protagonist in every scene, and this film is neither of those.

I could have given this movie 10%, but that would be unfair since there is good film making on hand and for a third of the movie I was entertained.