I am at a loss as how ANYONE could find this NOT worth watching?!

It is a highly entertaining film. A FILM. Step down off your soap boxes my good people. Great story. Full of energy. Great acting. Everything a movie sets out to be.

See it yourself and you be the judge.

So disappointing in so many ways—superficial, shallow, slick, misleading, unconvincing, manipulative (but not very successfully), and overall wildly lacking in any kind of deep addressing of the issues and the characters involved, which is ironic since it goes on for so bloody long.

Also, practically everyone needs an accent coach, particularly folks who didn’t even bother trying not to sound American.

Readers, please check out my location right beneath my photo. Even though I wasn’t born yet in 1977, I know enough about the massacre in Munich to say “Spielberg, shame on you”.
Maybe this is the main problem of the film- Spielberg is so confident(as u can see in the introduction of the dvd) in himself and in the pretension of his creations (Schiendler’s List, for instance) that he forgets one important thing- You can’t write in fairness about something completely subjective to you. Spielberg doesn’t understand the complexity of the israeli- arabian conflict, because he is an american. All he knows is what he can tell by the media. So, because Spielberg cannot tell what it is like for an israeli (Avner, completely unrealiable character) to live in fear of terror every single day- which by the way, can psychologically explain why he didn’t intereview the wives of the victims nor the ex- heads of the israeli Mossad, and caused so much anger- or, else, the hypocritical identification of international terror organizations with the unbearable distress of the Palestinians in Gaza. Spielberg is very far from it, so cannot emotinally identify with the situation he describes.
As a result, the movie is full of scences with no action. All that happens is endless dialogues between characters that explain their positions and try to make us understand. Tony Kushner and Erich Roth (Screenplay) cannot do the work of an excellent script writer and transform messages by story. They don’t feel probaly suitable for judging in the favour of one or two sides. Those who actually bother to watch this problematic feature, would easily notice that and leave the remote dissapointed.

Films can communicate important messages through stories that don’t have totally graphic scenes. Images can hint at what has happened and make you understand just as well as seeing a naked body or chunks of flesh and spurting blood from a gunshot wound. However, I do think the story was very compelling. Violence begets violence. I especially appreciated the ending when you really understand that the main character was just being used as a pawn in a game that Israel decided to play.

I borrowed my brother’s blockbuster copy after he’d said he couldn’t finish it and so I was determined to see if I could. Spielberg introduces the movie by saying he made it to highlight the issues of this compelling story. I’d say he succeeded in doing that. As another reviewer points out the parts about home feel contrived and the movie is stronger when it renders the increasing disorder of events. We keep trying to make sense of things, but so far, all our conclusions seem premature.
There were many thoughts in this movie that were compelling.
The terrorist who sleeps in the closet because he’s afraid of the bomb under the mattress – you have to kill running because its stillness you’re afraid of – the complexity of sides – time and chance catch everyone in the race. Beyond the technicalities of the movie, I found the ideas I think Speilberg is trying to communicate important to consider.

An excellently made and thoroughly depressing flick that suffers from Spielberg’s interesting recent tick of having multiple endings. On top of that, I had to deal with Spielberg’s squeamishness about nudity, which only made the love scenes more out of place. While I enjoyed the movie as a whole, its end, especially the final shot, seemed unearned. The movie was better when it was about people and their attempts to bring order from chaos through the application of more chaos. Its constant reminders and symbols of home and family felt forced, especially when intercut with the technically and thematically more successful action sequences.

I liked the music … it’s telling you the suffering, the losses of man’s soul.

The rest, the story, the picture, told you everything…about the ego of a country, about the dignity of the country.

I felt sorry for the family who lost their husband, son, brother in Munich, but my sympathy was for the person who’s dedicated their life to do the revenge.

The question left after I watched this movie was …when we finally live in peace ?