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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 9, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eric Bana, Daniel Craig & Geoffrey Rush | |
Performer: | Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ciarán Hinds, Marie-Josée Croze, Gila Almagor & Ayelet Zorer | |
Directed by | Steven Spielberg | |
Edited by | Michael Kahn | |
Screenwriting by | Tony Kushner & Eric Roth | |
Composition by | John Williams | |
Produced by | Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Barry Mendel & Colin Wilson | |
Director of Photography: | Januzs Kaminsky |
Entertainment Reviews:
Laceratingly charged, thunderstriken virtually, by Spielberg's deeply felt moral analysis
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CinePassion
[Spielberg] has completed the process begun with simpler SCHINDLER'S LIST to become a truly adult director, with this, his bravest film.
Uncut
Rating: 7/10 --
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.
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ComingSoon.net
5 stars out of 5 -- [A] tense, vigorous, thought-sparking thriller that applies the spare efficiency of great Hollywood storytelling to the prosaic, ethical examinings favoured by master political filmmakers like Costas-Gavras...
Total Film
Rating: 5/5 --
It's certainly the best mainstream thriller since The Insider, and an audacious political statement from a director who has everything to lose. Don't miss it.
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BBC.com
This is a smart and often tense work....It's definitely powerful enough to make you wish he'd head in this direction more often.
USA Today
Rating: 4/5 --
This punishing, borderline amoral picture is Spielberg at his most bleak, and most challenging. It refuses to pick sides and resonates in unsettling ways.
Empire Magazine Australasia
Product Description:
A thought-provoking surprise from famed director Steven Spielberg, MUNICH explores the aftereffects of the brutal terrorist attacks on the Israeli athletic team at that German city's 1972 Olympic games. Loosely adapted from the book VENGEANCE by Hungarian George Jonas, the script was largely written by the provocative, award-winning playwright Tony Kushner (ANGELS IN AMERICA), who lends an incisive intelligence to the dialogue. The film begins with the violent sequence of the terrorists carrying out their attacks on the Israelis; a bloody and gruesome sequence that is deftly and beautifully handled by Spielberg and his brilliant cinematographer, Januzs Kaminski. Back in Israel, we meet the handsome and charming Avner, deeply in love with his beautiful, pregnant wife. Domestic bliss is short-lived however; immediately following these "Black September" attacks, Avner (THE HULK's Eric Bana), the son of an Israeli hero, is summoned by his country's famed secret service agency, the Mossad, to carry out violent retaliations against those Palestinian terrorists allegedly behind the Munich massacre. Commanded from afar by prickly government agent Ephraim (the inimitable Geoffrey Rush), Avner and his team of handpicked men--pugnacious South African Steve (Daniel Craig), goofy ex-toy maker Robert (French actor Matthieu Kassovitz), morally conflicted Carl (Ciaran Hinds), and terse professional Hans (Hanns Zischler)--must deal with some shady, nefarious international figures as they track down their Palestinian prey. Their mission takes them everywhere, from the villas of Rome to a seedy hotel in Cyprus, and with each successful kill, Avner's iron will begins to dissolve, and guilt and doubt begin to take hold of his conscience. Strong performances (particularly by the magnetic Eric Bana), gripping action, moral complexity, and a political urgency make the film not only consistently entertaining, but enormously important. Kushner and Spielberg work together to make it clear that the past informs the present, and the lingering final shot should leave viewers with much to think about.
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