One Day in September
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Movie Reviews of One Day in September
Movie Review: A day that I will always thing about.
Summary: 5 Stars
This was an amazing documentary. Just to imagine what these hostages went through is so sad and frustrating. We live in a time where something like this can happen again. This movie draws you in from the very beginning. You have a complete understanding of what happened that horrific day. I saw "Munich." After that, I had to get the documentary and see for myself the actual events that made the world glued to their television sets. I was only 4 when it happend and I still remember watching it on the televisiion. This brilliant documantry made you understand what it was like to watch something tragic like this unfold in front of your eyes. The worst thing is that nobody could do anything. You just had to sit and watch and hope everything is going to turn out okay.Movie Review: Profoundly disturbing, but unfortunately a true story...
Summary: 5 Stars
I already knew about the horrible events of the Munich games and the deaths of the Israeli athletes at the hands of the fanatic Palestinians, but I was not aware that there were many opportunites to save the Israeli team, but were horribly bungled by the Germans.
This tragedy was preventable, but due to gross mishandling of this incident by the German authorities, every single Israeli hostage was killed.
This documentary will upset you, move you, anger you and ultimately make you ask the question every has asked...why?
Movie Review: barbara tuchman might have called it "the guns of september"
Summary: 4 Stars
oh, what the heck can one say? the miscalculations by the germans, by the israelis, by the terrorists, by the media: if any of them had shown a bit more common sense, this horrific event might well have had a different outcome. half a century after world war 1, english theatrical producer joan littlewood caught the idiocy of all involved in "oh what a lovely war"; perhaps some day when the horrors of the middle east crises are behind us (ha ha ha), another artist will seize upon this bit of madness. a fine documentary if accepted as straight, but the underlying absurdity cant help but osmose through.
Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Though its soundtrack choices are bizarre and inappropriate at times (Deep Purple during a montage of death?), One Day in September does an excellent job mixing interviews with computer simulations and archive footage to not only display what happened during the Munich atrocity, but also to point the finger of blame.
Movie Review: This could be you and yours
Summary: 3 Stars
There is much about this film that will revolt you: the way the film-makers try to be "even and balanced" by giving Jama Al Gashey (the surviving terrorist) yet another chance to portray himself as a hero; the way a German politician looks the camera in the eye and proclaims that he "liked Issa" (the negotiator for the terrorists and arguably the most revolting man of the lot); the non-stop laughter from another German politician which starts when he recounts that the Israelis wanted to send a team in (ha ha); the complete indifference of the Olympic Committee then and now (they just wanted the hostages moved from the Village so the Games could continue); the collusion between the German Government and the Palestinian terrorists and so much more.
But perhaps the most revolting thing about this admittedly engrossing movie is that the film-makers and the producers and everyone else involved in it just don't get it. They don't get that this could be their family tomorrow. It could be my family, it could be your family.
I wish there was another movie of the horror of 1972 that talked about the victims but (to the best of my knowledge) there isn't. And so (very reluctantly) I recommend it.
Watch it. Because this could be you and yours.