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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Steven Spielberg
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Actors:
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Ayelet Zurer,
Yvan Attal,
Gila Almagor,
Meret Becker,
Eric Bana,
Daniel Craig,
Ciarán Hinds,
Mathieu Kassovitz,
Hanns Zischler,
Geoffrey Rush,
Michael Lonsdale,
Mathieu Amalric,
Moritz Bleibtreu,
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi,
Marie-Josée Croze
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Duration:
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164 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)135
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Plot Summary:
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In the wake of 1972 Munich Olympic calamity, the Mossad retaliates by deploying a team of agents (led around Avner) in Europe to assassinate Palestinian terrorist leaders suspected of planning the attack, which Nautical port eleven Israeli athletes through.
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Disappointment
'Munich' wasn't a bad film, but all the build up for it left me wanting.
The film builds a plausible story around the basic facts that Israeli athletes killed in Munich and that known/suspected plotters of the attacks were hunted down. Spielberg, himself, says this is a story not a documentary - we don't actually know what happened.
The story, though, is repetitious and fails to build suspense. Spielberg knows how to tell a riveting story where the outcome is already known (e.g., Schindlers List), but he didn't do it here. This story became a monotony of assassinations with minor twists thrown in.
Spielberg does succeed in putting a human face on what is almost universally seen as mindless violence in the Middle East. Neither the Israelis nor the Pa...
Munich
Steven Spielberg directs this drama about the revenge taken by Israel after the murder of 11 of its athletes at the 1972 Olympics. Eric Bana and Daniel Craig star as the assassins
It is unlikely that the truth about the terrorist killing of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinians at the 1972 Olympics and the reprisals taken by Israeli secret agents will ever be known. Steven Spielberg's film is based on the book 'Vengeance' by George Jonas, which has been attacked as the work of a fantasist. Nevertheless, it is the main source for this reconstruction of a grim episode in the ongoing tragic history of relations between the Jewish state and its Muslim neighbour.
Munich is "Inspired by real events", and has some crossover with the investigations undertaken in t...
Munich
Mike ClarkRevenge isn't sweet, or even satisfying, to its perpetrators in Steven Spielberg's impressive, though spotty, Munich And that's a dramatic challenge for a long movie (2 ?? hours) that also leans toward the emotionally distant.
Fictionalized and based on the 1984 book Vengeance, it tells of a top-secret Israeli hit squad avenging the Palestinian killings of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games. As hot-button as this is, the movie has sparked a curious aesthetic controversy: several positive reviews but a couple of notable drubs, then the cover of Time followed by a Golden Globes best-drama snub.
Well, maybe it figures; Munich isn't quite like other Spielbergs. With its European tone and methodical assassinations, it reminds me of 1973's The Da...
Munich
This is a smart and again tense position....It's obviously powerful enough to make you wish he'd managing director in this conduct more instances
Munich
Included in Distraction Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- Steven Spielberg's brilliant state thriller is a function of spectacular and unsettling excitement
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