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To: steve harris who wrote (380830)	4/28/2008 4:42:09 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573791

Steve (and others), I just rented the DVD "Munich," and I can't see why the movie won 5 Academy Award nominations. I get the theme, that violence begets more violence, but I did not see that theme developed very well. It just seemed like the main character played by Eric Bana is just a hired gun with little personal connection to the 1972 Munich massacre, who just does his job killing whomever he's told to kill. The personal demons he faces seem like the typical stuff you see in any movie about mercenaries (though Bana plays a Mossad agent). I don't get why reviewers seemed to love this movie (77% on Rotten Tomatoes). Can't be a liberal bias, since the movie seemed to lean a little toward the notion that most of the dead bastards (including Israeli, ironically) got what was coming to them. Can't really be a Palestinian one either, since I didn't see enough humanizing of the Palestinian "freedom fighters" except in one scene. The movie just degenerated into a spy-vs-spy game, then ends without a conclusion. I applaud Spielberg for the effort, but I think he tried a little too hard to be politically neutral. Or maybe he had no choice but to be? Tenchusatsu P.S. - Escapism comes this Friday in the form of Iron Man ... ;-)