Munich (2005)

Release date: 2006-01-06
Country: France|Canada|USA
Language: English|German|French|Hebrew|Arabic|Italian|Greek|Russian|Dutch
Director: Steven Spielberg
Production Co: DreamWorks, Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Biography, History
Rating: 7.5/10
Length: 2h 44min

Storyline

After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?

Plot Keywords

jew, israel, based on true story, based on book, beirut lebanon, vengeance, reference to adolf hitler, arab, palestinian, shot in the back, femme fatale, female frontal nudity, terrorism, mossad, breasts, shot in the face, shot in the head, shot to death, female assassin, hotel

Short Review

Eric Bana gives a performance that deserves something more serious than an Oscar. It's a sublimely convincing portrayal of a man who is travelling far from who he is in order to defend who he is.