Munich

(2005)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	Cinema

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A movie with a too limited remit on terrorism and our response to it in that it does not deal with prevention: Its breast-beating moralism rings a little hollow.

Revenge does not work because the resulting tit-for-tat paranoia proves it is already too late for negotiation. Nevertheless, within its limits, this is a well balanced presentation; shot like an old-fashioned 60s Cold War thriller – especially as terrorists are not ridiculously shown as monsters. This docudrama matter-of-factness well serves an excellent cast.

Though targeted killings are justified, the film resorts to emotionalism rather than ethical or political debate – it does not develop its own issues, dramatically, save to say that the only true country is family.

As shown here, wars will continue so long as no one wishes to end the cycle of violence, unilaterally.

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