Synopsis
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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Cast
- Eric BanaAvner
- Daniel CraigSteve
- Ciarán HindsCarl
- Mathieu KassovitzRobert
- Hanns ZischlerHans
- Ayelet ZurerDaphna
- Geoffrey RushEphraim
- Gila AlmagorAvner's Mother
- Michael LonsdalePapa
- Mathieu AmalricLouis
Recommendations
- 100
Newsweek
A 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. - 100
Entertainment Weekly
Munich, Steven Spielberg's spectacularly gripping and unsettling new movie, is a grave and haunted film, yet its power lies in its willingness to be a work of brutal excitement. - 100
New York Post
Masterful, atypically political - and flawlessly acted. - 100
ReelViews
A film of uncommon depth, intelligence, and sensitivity. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
A mesmerizing, richly nuanced inquiry into Israel's revenge of the Munich massacre of its athletes. - 88
Rolling Stone
Bana is magnificent in the role. - 60
Variety
Beautifully made pic will spur newsy media coverage and possible consternation on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide, but members of the general public will be glancing at their watches rather than having epiphanies about world peace. - 60
The New Yorker
If he had told the story straight, without such hedging, and at half the length, it would have borne far more conviction.
