Munich (2005)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 200
Fresh: 156 | Rotten: 44
Steven Spielberg's examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the aftermath of the Munich assassinations is politically even-handed and cinematically visceral.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 16
Steven Spielberg's examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the aftermath of the Munich assassinations is politically even-handed and cinematically visceral.
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Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful drama about the human costs of international terrorism. The 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, were supposed to be a peaceful gathering of outstanding athletes from around the world, but on September 5, the
Cast
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Eric Bana
Avner -
Daniel Craig
Steve -
Ciarán Hinds
Carl -
Mathieu Kassovitz
Robert -
Hanns Zischler
Hans -
Ayelet Zurer
Daphna -
Geoffrey Rush
Ephraim -
Michel Lonsdale
Papa -
Mathieu Amalric
Louis -
Lynn Cohen
Golda Meir -
Marie-Josée Croze
Jeanette -
Makram Khoury
Wael Zwaiter -
Yigal Naor
Mahmoud Hamshari -
Omar Metwally
Ali -
Moritz Bleibtreu
Andreas -
Mostafa Djadjam
Hussein Abad Al-Chir -
Gila Almagor
Avner's Mother -
Moshe Ivgy
Mike Harari -
Yvan Attal
Tony (Andreas' Friend) -
Hiam Abbass
Marie Claude Hamshari -
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Sylvie -
Meret Becker
Yvonne -
Brian Goodman
Belligerent American -
Hicham Nazzal
Guard -
Guy Zo-Aretz
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All Critics (213) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (162) | Rotten (44) | DVD (34)
It's a smart, mesmerizing and often angry film, from a truly confident filmmaker, but it remains, maddeningly, just beyond our grasp.
Top CriticEverything that keeps it from being lovable could be looked upon as a virtue, and everything about it is intentional.
Munich ricochets all over the place, but it hits its target dead-on.
Like the superior Syriana, this isn't a Middle Eastern tale that offers much hope. It's just bloodstained history. And if we don't remember that history, Spielberg says, we learn nothing.
The ultimate problem with Munich is that it's looking for a clear-cut answer that doesn't exist. And while it frames its final act as an argument, it's an argument it's having with itself.
It's a brutal, merciless, somber picture, utterly devoid of the heart-tugging sentimentality that always creeps into even his best films. It is also, unfortunately, timid when it should be bold and clunky when it should be eloquent.
This punishing, borderline amoral picture is Spielberg at his most bleak, and most challenging. It refuses to pick sides and resonates in unsettling ways.
Munich is an important story to be sure but an important movie isn't the same as a great one. It's told in such a muddled way the message is easily lost, except for the moments when it is hammered home at the cost of story-telling believability.
Spielberg described Munich as his 'prayer for peace,' yet his movie strangely lacks the eloquence and yearning of a prayer.
Laceratingly charged, thunderstriken virtually, by Spielberg's deeply felt moral analysis
An utter masterpiece.
There's about an hour's worth of greatness in Munich.
Complex and powerful movie is for adults only.
A longing for home is the central core to Spielberg's powerful dissertation.
Munich is one of those rare films that transcends art and taps directly into the consciousness of a hate-battered world.
... a worthy release that should definitely be part of everyone's collection.
Munich also succeeds where some of Spielberg's other films have not in its lack of his usual sentimentality.
Ever so subtly, Spielberg masterfully conveys the toll which the inordinate tension of their job and the mechanics of their methods take on his subjects' souls.
Muddled liberal Zionist politics. Even worse as a film.
Audience Reviews for Munich
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- Ephraim: Some kitchen donkey thinks that there were two athletes murdered at Munich. But that doesn't make any sense.
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- Avner: Listen Schultz, you clown, there were eleven Israeli athletes murdered at Munich. That's two hands plus one finger.
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- Steve: I am the Jewish James Bond.
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- Ephraim: We kill for our future. We kill for peace.
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- Avner: It will be beautiful.
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- Avner: There is no peace at the end of this.
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