Munich (DVD)

A few years back I remember hearing of this film because there was a lot of hype about it around the time of the Oscars. It never did win an Oscar but it won a few other awards so it did well. I wasn’t exactly sure what this film was about but judging from what I had seen it looked like a bit of an action film. I also noticed Eric Bana was in this film and think he’s an ok actor so I decided to give this film a chance and rented out the DVD. It is based on true events as it says at the start about the 1972 Olympics where the 11 athletes were murdered at Munich. The government decides to set up an operation to kill the terrorist group involved in the Munich ...  Read the complete review

Sunday afternoon weather outside is terrible and I am getting over a bad cold so I decided to watch Munich the dvd. I had high hopes for this DVD prior to viewing having read a book about the Munich massacre and seen the excellent documentary One Day in September 1999. However I was very disappointed by the film, which tells of the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes in the Olympic games in Munich in 1972, which is the factual part of the film and The Israel government's response to the massacre, which is considered to be part fiction/part fact. The actual fact of the kidnap and massacre of the athletes is told in various flashbacks throughout the film, which I ...  Read the complete review

Munich is, in many ways a companion piece to Spielberg's Schindler's List - a serious, thoughtful film, which nevertheless manages to entertain at the same time. It follows events which occurred during the 1972 Munich Olympics where 11 Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed. Those expecting a thrilling film will be disappointed. This isn't a film from Spielberg's "action period". Although the events are shown (using a clever combination of dramatisation, actual footage and flashbacks), they do not form the main part of the story. Instead, Munich focuses on what happened afterwards - the revenge mission and assassination ...  Read the complete review

I really didn't know what to expect with this film. All I new was that is was a Steven Spielberg film about the massacre of a number of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, after a hostage situation goes wrong. As far as the event was concerned, I was a tad too young to recall it so expected to learn a bit more about it. In fact the film fast forwards through the actual event in the first 5-10 minutes of the film, with a few other aspects being told briefly in flashbacks later in the film. The film is actually about an Israeli Mossad agent (Eric Bana) and his crew (featuring Daniel Craig and Ciaran Hinds) who are secretly hired by the Israeli government to track ...  Read the complete review

On the morning of September 5th, 1972, amidst the revelry and excitement of the Munich Olympics, a team of Palestinian terrorists broke into the private quarters of the Israeli Olympics team. As the Israeli athletes struggled against their attackers, two of them were killed before the other nine were taken hostage. Taking their hostages to the local airport, the terrorists believed that their demands were being met when an operation mounted by the military went terribly wrong. In the ensuing battle, the remaining nine athletes were killed and the world was stunned by a terrorist atrocity. The world’s reaction, however, was fairly passive in comparison to the ...  Read the complete review