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.