Just another Movie Monday...Munich
Good morning all! Because I'm a lazy ass, I didn't do a music recap since I was in Virginia all last week and was, well...lazy! LOL. In my defense, I *did* update the website to include a Behind the Scenes page, so if you're so inclined, check it out: www.tlschaefer.com/BehindTheScenes.htm Anyway, here's this week's movie review...
Movie: Munich – as you can tell, hubby and I are catching up on all of the movies we missed over the summer *g*. We picked Munich up because we’d heard it was excellent from friends, and they were right. But don’t think this is going to be a happy, uplifting flick…it’s not. It’s about the hunt for the eleven purported masterminds behind the slaughter of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. Eric Bana is the lead in a largely international cast (Geoffrey Rush and Daniel Craig are probly the only ones mainstream American viewers will recognize), and he was amazing as a compassionate man who has to turn his emotions and morality “off” to complete a mission he believes he must undertake to salve the soul of his country. This movie is looooong (2 hrs and 45 minutes), and a times can drag just a smidge as background details and such are laid, but at the end, where we, as an audience, and Avner (Bana) question if it really makes a difference, it’s well worth the time spent.
Movie: Munich – as you can tell, hubby and I are catching up on all of the movies we missed over the summer *g*. We picked Munich up because we’d heard it was excellent from friends, and they were right. But don’t think this is going to be a happy, uplifting flick…it’s not. It’s about the hunt for the eleven purported masterminds behind the slaughter of eleven Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. Eric Bana is the lead in a largely international cast (Geoffrey Rush and Daniel Craig are probly the only ones mainstream American viewers will recognize), and he was amazing as a compassionate man who has to turn his emotions and morality “off” to complete a mission he believes he must undertake to salve the soul of his country. This movie is looooong (2 hrs and 45 minutes), and a times can drag just a smidge as background details and such are laid, but at the end, where we, as an audience, and Avner (Bana) question if it really makes a difference, it’s well worth the time spent.
posted by Keira Ramsay at 4:49 AM
1 Comments:
One way that Spielberg could have shortened Munich and made it a better flick was to lop off five or so of the unnecessary false endings the tacked on at the close .. except for that, I found his flick to be a gripping study of a situation which clearly has no winners
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