See the trailer for Spielberg's 'Munich'

November 7 2005

It's only been four months since the release of the last Steven Spielberg film, but the trailer for his new picture 'Munich' has already hit the net, and the subject matter couldn't be further removed from the big-budget histrionics of 'War of the Worlds'.

Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, the film revolves around the hit squad sent to track down and kill the Palestinian terrorists suspected of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

A return to more serious (and Oscar-worthy) fare for Spielberg after the light-hearted diversions 'Catch Me If You Can' and 'The Terminal', the film stars Eric Bana, Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush, and is due to hit UK screens on January 27.

Link;
Time Out

Trailer;
Apple-Trailers-Munich

movie already with Michael York. It raises the issues of responding to terrorists in kind and the effect on the hunters, and eventually, the humanity of their targets. Eventually it appears as cold blooded round robin of violence policy rather than the simple just revenge and power of the "good guys" theme most Hollywood movies reflexively paint.

I have no idea what Spielberg has in mind.

The choice of screenwriter points in that direction, & some of the
dialogue & scenes featured in the trailer, & the image used for the
poster indicate that the film will, at least partly, question the
morality & ethics, & effectiveness of, as you say, responding to
terrorists by using terrorism. One of the lines was 'do you realise
how many laws we've broken?'

The Mossad agents who killed a Algerian national in Lillehammer, need to be in Norwegian prisons. It does not matter if the man was mistakenly identified they still committed an act of premeditated murder.

By that stardard, if our military/CIA ever DID track down and kill Osama Bin Laden (A Saudi national), then they would be guilty of premeditated murder. All agents responsable should be sent to Saudi prisons.

If US agents went around the world killing anybody that looked like OBL and said "it just was a case of mistaken identity" that does not erase the crime or the fact that it was premeditated murder. No double standards in my point. If US agents were to do something like this they should be brought to justice. No previous or future action by any country justifies the Mossad's killing of an innocent man.

It was 'premeditated murder', the individual killed was completely
innocent.

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More hits followed. Twelve men were dead, but still on the run, at the top of the Mossad’s hit list, was Yasser Arafat's favorite yong protégé, Ali Hassan Salameh. He was known as the Red Prince, and the Israelis believed he was the man behind the Munich massacre. He was well protected.

In 1973, the Mossad believed it had tracked its man to a tranquil Norwegian town called Lillehammer. One evening, the Mossad watched him board a bus with a pregnant Norwegian woman. As they got off at this bus stop, two Israeli agents jumped out of a car and fired 14 bullets. The Red Prince was dead. Munich had been avenged. But there would be no getaway this time. Norwegian police noted the license plate of the hit team's car, traced it to this safe house in Oslo and arrested six Israeli agents. And not only were members of the hit team behind bars, they had killed the wrong man.

The Israelis had killed a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki. He and his wife were expecting their first child in two months.

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