[deanhills]

Munich (2005) by Steven Spielberg. I'd seen this a long time back, and saw it again last night, and both times were wowed by the experience. Another great Spielberg movie.

The movie is about the seventies Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinians of the Black September group. The Israeli Prime Minister at the time, Golda Meir, set up an Israeli hit squad that operated completely separate from Mossad, with a huge budget, to find and eliminate the organisers and perpetrators of the massacre. There were some interesting characters that were still young at the time the movie was made - Eric Bana and Daniel Craig.

What is noteworthy was that Spielberg took a huge personal risk in making the movie, as he got a lot of flack from the Israeli Government as well as ex members of Black September.

The movie was excellent in that it was not so much a historical narrative of what happened during the massacre and afterwards but more a portrayal of the assasination and counter assasination team members during and after the fact. It was very artfully and creatively presented by Spielberg enough to keep one's attention. I score this movie at least 9/10 for a quality classic.