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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0025192921124
Format: AC-3, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Running Time: 164 minutes
Sales Rank: 51680
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: January 06, 2006
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
At its core, Munich is a straightforward thriller. Based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas, it’s built on a relatively stock movie premise, the revenge plot: innocent people are killed, the bad guys got away with it, and someone has to make them pay. But director Steven Spielberg uses that as a starting point to delve into complex ethical questions about the cyclic nature of revenge and the moral price of violence. The movie starts with a rush. The opening portrays the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes by PLO terrorists at the 1972 Olympics with scenes as heart-stopping and terrifying as the best of any horror movie. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner (Eric Bana) to lead a team of paid-off-the-book agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one (in reality, there were several teams). It’s physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team’s handler, Ephraim (Geoffrey Rush), over information Avner doesn’t want to provide only make things harder. Soon the work starts to take its toll on Avner, and the deeper moral questions of right and wrong come into play, especially as it becomes clear that Avner is being hunted in return, and that his family’s safety may be in jeopardy.
By all rights, Munich should be an unqualified success--it has gripping subject matter relevant to current events; it was co-written by one of America’s greatest living playwrights (Tony Kushner, Angels in America) and an accomplished screenwriter (Eric Roth); it stars an appealing and likeable actor in Eric Bana; and it was helmed by Steven Spielberg, of all people. While it certainly is a great movie, it falls just short of the immense heights such talent should propel it to. This is due more to some questionable plot devices than anything else (such as the contrived use of a family of French informants to locate the terrorists). But while certain aspects ring hollow, the movie as a whole is a profound accomplishment, despite being only 'inspired by true events,' and not factually based on them. From the ferocious beginning to the unforgettable closing shot, Munich works on a visceral level while making a poignant plea for peace, and issuing an unmistakable warning about the destructive cycle of terror and revenge. As one of the characters intones, 'There is no peace at the end of this.' --Daniel Vancini
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Bloody Aftermath
"Israeli terrorist are called `commandos', Arab commandos are called `terrorist'."
--George Carlin
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness ... Read More
Rating:  - More horrible direction from Spielberg and a pathetic pseudo-psychological script
Good grief, what a load. Get this: after Palestinian terrorists murdered a large group of Israeli athletes at the Olympics (this actually happened) the Israeli version of the CIA, the Mossad (according to Spielberg's pathetic mental gyrations) selected a small group of untrained assassins to locate and kill the terrorists, wherever they were. And oh! the anguish these assassins suffered! Vey is mier! Poor tortured souls they were! Murder most foul! Revenge--is this Jewish? Mammanyu! The only person ... Read More
Rating: - not good
not interisting for me it give you view one side to bleam the other side
Rating: - Important issues raised
People have done a good job of explaining plot points. I will just say that this is a thoughtful movie that doesn't give any easy answers. Can we really divide the world between good and evil? And if there is a good side, do acts of revenge keep the 'good' from going evil? Slight criticisms. The movie is long and many scenes seem drawn out. The dialog is not outstanding and the plot and acting drive the movie along. The end scene which is controversial, no spoilers, was not to my liking. It ... Read More
Rating:  - A bit of a plodder
The subject is so heavy and Speilberg does nothing to make it lighter. Did this really happen this way? Evidently, reality was pretty close, though we don't know for sure because the Israeli hit squad has never been acknowledged, has it? A docudrama about an episode that's still hard to believe happened so many years ago.
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