Stephen Spielberg‘s Munich is a personal story that is deeply moving and emotionally challenging to the viewer. Hard questions are asked about the nature of revenge, assassination, and the right of a people to protect themselves through any means necessary. Not since Schindler’s List has Spielberg taken on such a momentous undertaking that produced such extraordinary results. This is his best film in over a decade and, it can be argued, the best film of his entire career. In Munich Spielberg becomes the storyteller of a very personal story of pain, loss, vengeance, betrayal, murder, and death. Munich is tremendous filmmaking and one of the best movies of the year.
The film begins with the abduction and murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Munich tells the story of the fallout of this tragedy as Avner (Eric Bana), a Mossad officer and son of a hero, is chosen by the Israeli Prime Minister (Lynn Cohen) to lead a team and hunt down and kill all 11 of the terrorists responsible. Avner accept the assignment and leaves his pregnant wife; he travels to Europe with his team to track down and assassinate the members of Black September.
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Steven Spielberg‘s semi-autobiographical Hollywood version of his childhood ends on a high note with one of the best scenes of the year (which I certainly won’t spoil for you here). The journey to that moment takes a little longer than it should and feels a bit like a greatest hits album rather than one coherent narrative, jumping around to important moments in the life of Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle & Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord) which would mold him into the man and filmmaker he would become.
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