
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, K... (Full plot summary below)
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After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a covert operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?
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| NewsweekDavid AnsenA superbly taut and well-made thriller that jumps from Geneva to Rome, from Paris to Beirut, from Athens to Brooklyn, each lethal assignment staged with a mastery Hitchcock might envy. |
| Urban CinefileUrban Cinefile CriticsMunich is as disturbing and complex as the many issues it raises. There are no answers, only questions. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatYou cannot make a convincing case against terrorism by showing one graphic scene after another of cold-blooded murder. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinSpielberg brings out all the soul-shaking fear and moral doubt that exists on both sides of this long-brewing and seemingly unsolvable conflict. |
| CNN.comPaul Clinton (CNN.com)A visceral, emotionally exhausting work that dares to ask questions -- and gives no easy answers. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandMunich is a powerful, even shattering film that deserves to be seen, dissected and debated for content. |
| Boston HeraldJames VernierePowerful, polarizing and excruciatingly violent. |
| Peterborough This WeekMike SageMunich is worth seeing despite the fact it ends up a tedious watch. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaO filme mais corajoso da carreira de Steven Spielberg. |
| Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)Jonathan R. PerryA difficult, disquieting story of violence, revenge and redemption that could have been shaped by no other hands but Spielberg's -- in the best film he has ever made. |