"but that the terrorists are humanized, shown with their families, etc. This makes me sick and reminds me of how the communists in hollywood tried (but mostly failed) to deify the late sociopath Tookie (thank you Terminator for standing up to your Hollywood colleagues!)"
Yes, that would get me sick too. But according to the review that does not happen.
When one considers the demonization of Israelis in the press, especially the soldiers who are often portrayed as sadistic unwarranted killers of children, torturers of pregnant women and the sick at checkpoints, a movie that shows them as thoughtful and brooding over the taking of lives, even lowlife terrorists, may be a welcome change.
He is right in the review.... Up until the end I was wondering what all the talk was about it being a left leaning, anti Israel film. During the entire course of the movie the Israelis are shown as they are doing righteous work and not being portrayed as bloodthirtsy killers.
At the end though when he accuses Israel of trying to go after his family, and what not is pure speculation on Kushner's part and ruins the whole film.It's not that Avner is just overwhelmed at the killings he has done, he actually thinks what he did was wrong in the end.
This left a really bad taste in my mouth, especially since people seeing this movie will think this is how the events really occurred.
If they were going to make a fiction movie, maybe they should have stated that as opposed to the vaguely written "Inspired by True Events".