Embodying the true story of the bloodshed events of December, when after the Olympic Games, in which the Israeli players participate, and they have been hijacked and murdered by terrorists, the thing that leads the Israeli government orders a group of Mossed agents to follow the suspects and murder them.
It's an incoherent film, as if Spielberg desperately wanted to say something important and could only come to the conclusion that killing is bad and we're all human.
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.
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.
Empire Magazine Australasia
November 07, 2012
This punishing, borderline amoral picture is Spielberg at his most bleak, and most challenging. It refuses to pick sides and resonates in unsettling ways.
Orlando Sentinel
December 27, 2005
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.
The Dissolve
February 23, 2015
Munich is more measured and classy than Spielberg's action-adventures.
