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Thank you for this review.

I greatly respect Jason Apuzzo the reviewer. He is a genuine Conservative, pro WOT, who has taken on the Hollywood left by creating a Conservative Film Festival with his wife who is an actress.

Also, just last night I was speaking with an Israeli who is pro-settler, anti Gaza pullout and Right of PM Sharon. She loved the film and said it portrayed Israel very positively. She made the same point as Apuzzo -- that the doubts of the Israeli Mossad operatives humanized them in contrast to the terrorists.

I will be seeing this film over the weekend.

I have not yet seen the film (though I hope to do so soon). But the problem, as I understand it, is not that the Mossad is humanized, 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!)

Spielberg did a great job with Schindler's List, making the horror of the holocaust accessible to people in the context of a heroic story (Oscar Schindler). I expected that he would do something similar with Munich. But instead it appears - at least from other reviewers - that he has tried to humanize both sides with same moral equivalency crap that is being taught in universities. Contrast this to a Clint film like Dirty Harry, an Arnold film, or even a Bronson film like Death Wish - where there is no moral ambiguity, no doubt as to who is the good guy, and no sympathy whatsoever for the evildoers who meet their just ends.

Now I appreciate as much as anyone a film or TV show that depicts its characters in shades of gray (Exhibit A - Tony Soprano). But the Munich terrorists do not deserve such treatment. The 1972 massacre - like 9/11 - could not be more black & white. Terrorists who murder innocent civilians are evil, hunting them down is good and just. There is no moral ambiguity to explore here.

My chief concern is the reflective self doubting that has entered Mossad related literature as of late. This gut gnawing questioning of the morality of killing terrorists and characters abandoning their righteous posts stinks of Le Carre’s leftist “The Spy that Came in From the Cold.”

I do hope the film points out what bungling buffoons the Germans were in this tragedy.

So now I’m torn. We don’t like to go out and see movies too much these days as it is hard enough keeping our baby on a good sleeping pattern. And I really want to see King Kong. King Kong or Munich on the big screen?

I disagree with the author on Star Wars. It may not be political propaganda, but certainly is a rich with moral propaganda and moral absurdity. Obi Wan tells Anakin “I loved you” after he cuts off his legs. And somehow Obi Wan tries to take the moral high ground by declaring there are no absolutes. What the F? Isn’t the Jedi order a group of men aligned by absolute beliefs (protecting the Republic, sexual abstinence).