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I can't stomach the whole review. . . however "focusing on revenge" isn't new and innovative. In the. . . I think late 80's maybe early 90's there was a movie (maybe one of those few, at the time, made for HBO movies) called "sword of Gideon" A POWERFUL movie. It showed the collateral damage, it showed the indifference of those hungry for revenge, and it reduced the effort for vengeance into an irrational act, which I think is true. However, it also shows that you aren't exactly wrong. There is, and was, in "the sword of Gideon" a very anti-israeli death squad overtone, and that is EXACTLY how it was depicted, but I did not leave that stand up to take a leak from that movie going "F!'n Israel HOW DARE THEY!" In fact, "The Sword of Gideon" did a very good job of depicting the horrible acts of each scumbag that was being assassinated as he was targeted.

The point I took from "The Sword of Gideon" was relatively honest. The overtones were sympathetic to collateral damage, but not to the specific targets. The terrorists were terrorists, and the zealous hit squad was a zealous hit squad, the only thing in the movie that might be "sympathetic" was the death of the innocents. The movie did a very good job of that. . .the only disappointment, in terms of politics at that time, was the last significant statement by the protagonist "If we keep taking an eye for an eye, soon the whole world will be blind!" and then I think it ends with the protagonist killing another badguy openly, and then being slaughtered himself.

It's been some time, but if you wanna talk about plot complexity, rather than thematic complexity, then I think I would and will remember "The Sword of Gideon" as a better polemic, than Munich.

I also remember Sword of Gideon as being clear that the Palestinian terrorists were terrorist scum. There was a scene in which the leader of the Israeli squad goes to the hospital, to make certain that one of the Palis was in fact dead, and sees the terrorist's wife and kids waiting for word, and he gets all mushy, like they are "normal" people too. That scene just made me angrier at the terrorists, like they kiss the wife goodbye, and go off to "work", blowing people up.

I remember a good scene in which they've rigged a car to explode, but they have to keep taking their finger off the button for fear of blowing up an innocent. One of the Israelis remarks that the Palestinians set their bombs with no regard for who else might get killed.

I do not remember any innocents being killed by the Israelis in Sword of Gideon. I do remember that they took out a female assassin who had been hired by the Palis to take them out, but I would hardly call her an innocent.