Drama > Spielberg, Steven Drama

A revenge mission

Advantages: Brilliant cast and story
Disadvantages: none

...high quality. The 2005 film, Munich is no different. Munich tells the story of the Israeli government retaliation for the assassination of eleven Israeli athletes by the Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September, at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir recruits a group of Mossad agents led by Avner (Eric Bana) with a mission to locate and kill those men responsible for the assassination. Avner is joined by four ...
...the actual events of the Munich assassinations. However the retaliation aspect of the film is more fictional. The cast are excellent, especially, Eric Bana who excels in the lead role as Avner. It is a well written story with some great characters that explores a country’s desire for revenge. It is worth noting that this has some violent and graphic scenes that not everyone will appreciate. I thought that it was refreshing to see Daniel Craig in ...

mozzie76 01.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Munich (DVD)

A very poor film but with a very good sound track.

Advantages: A very good sound track composed by John Williams.
Disadvantages: Poor plot, acting and screenplay in my opinion.

This is quite a strange film in my opinion and at the end of it all if you are like me you will think that you've watched a real load of incredibly boring rubbish but that the sound track was very good and brilliant in places. Not surprisingly then the sound track is composed by John Williams. The story is about a middle class English schoolboy, Jamie, who is living with his parents in Shanghai during the Japanese invasion of China in the second ...
...boy gets separated from his parents and the bulk of the film is then about him living off of scraps on the streets and in prisoner camps and barracks. But for me the real narrative of the film heavily focuses on Jamie's obsession with various war planes that often fly over in the sky and his boyish fascination with them. There are one or two momentary highlights in the film but put against so many bad and uninteresting parts they do just do not make ...

bella6789 04.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Empire Of The Sun (Special Edition) (DVD)

The Munich massacre - its aftermath, as noted by Spielberg

Advantages: Incredibly powerful drama in places
Disadvantages: Takes too long to get anywhere

Munich is a poignant and dramatic, slow-moving Spielberg film that has at its core the effects and fallout from the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre. Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by a group known as Black September, reported to have ties to a militant group linked to the Fatah organisation. The film opens with some graphic scenes showing the massacre within the first five or ten minutes, before Spielberg ...
...safely say it was a good film, it did take too long to give the impact it did so well. Munich is a film I recommend watching. I am glad I saw it, although I probably wouldn't bother again. It is available from amazon.co.uk for £3.90 at the moment. ...

pmcds 25.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Munich (DVD)

Sex and the City

Advantages: funny, great performance
Disadvantages: long

...so many exciting reviews on Sex and the City that I decided I watch it. It is a real chick flick romantic comedy and that evening it was the perfect entertainment for me. The film was written and directed by Michael Patrick King. Actually he was the co-producer of the film as well with Sarah Jessica Parker and Darren Star. Michael Patrick King is an American film director and screenplay writer. Besides Sex and the City he wrote the screenplay of ...
...balance. She and Steve have sex about twice a year and even then she is not so involved. She is hurt and devastated when Steve confesses that he had sex with another woman. Miranda separates immediately from him and sees no chance to forgive him. Charlotte has a happy family since they adopted Lily. She is a beautiful girl. Charlotte soon realises that since they gave up trying to have a baby she is pregnant. Can she carry out the baby? My opinion ...

D_i_a_n_e 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sex And The City - The Movie (DVD)

There's final hits and final hits. What kind is this one to be?

Advantages: One Of The Best Films To Come Out Of The UK.
Disadvantages: None!

...I first saw the film Trainspotting after hearing so much controversy about it on television, from reading about it in the newspapers and from everyone talking about it around me at the time. It was all everyone was talking about on it's release in 1996 and of course I just had to see it for myself to see what all the hype was about. Well I went to the pictures to watch this film and was quite shocked by this outrageously, yet brilliant tale of five ...
...ago that my husband purchased Trainspotting to add to our DVD collection as we both really enjoyed watching it over the years at various times on television (in a sick kind of way I guess). He picked it up second-hand for £1 at a car boot sale, so it certainly was a great bargain. This film really will not be suited to everyone though. I think you will either love it like I do, or absolutely hate it. It certainly is worth watching once though just ...

hillhead 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Trainspotting (DVD)