Yojimbo's Movie Review of Munich

Rating of
2.5/4

Munich

"Munich" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 07/07/12

I'm sure Steven Spielberg has been told how "brave" he was for tackling such sensitive subject matter (no doubt while he sat in his multi-million dollar high security mansion) but for me, not brave enough. His obvious unwillingness to takes sides or express any opinion at all on the events portrayed here is the film's Achilles heel. Without a moral compass, and only superficially realized characters and motives (especially considering the lack of context on the world's political stage) what is left is just a series of documentary style vignettes in which 5 characters we don't know assassinate a series of targets we don't know for reasons we don't know. Eric Bana's passage from young idealist to hollow-eyed paranoic seemes to happen overnight and so is unconvincing for the same reason. It's a beautifully made film for sure, but it's also unaffecting and emotionally uninvolving. Which is strange, because that's what Spielberg is usually so good at.

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memento_mori - wrote on 08/19/13 at 06:25 PM CT

Munich Review comment

I think Spielberg did the right thing not taking sides during his storytelling. He wisely chose just to document the events, and I think he put them to screen splendidly. Well, opinions vary.

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