Sword of Gideon
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Actor: Colleen Dewhurst, Laurent Malet, Michael York, Peter Dvorsky, Steven BauerBrand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 172 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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Movie Review: Mivtazah Elohim
Summary: 5 Stars
Mivtazah Elohim means the Wrath of God in Hebrew and this fore-runner to to the hit movie 'Munich' by Steven Spielberg is a classic. Prime Minister Golda Meir gave the orders and a Mossad "Kidon" team was despatched. In some ways 'Munich' is better, especially in the potrayal of human emotions and how the stress and pressure of living a life on the run takes it psychological toll on a person. Assassins have feelings too like all of us. This movie does not explore the psyche so much but is very true to life, and shows how a young gung ho Israeli commando is recruited by Mossad to terminate the enemies of Israel by extra-judicial means. He is trained in close up and personal killing with small easily concealable .22 calibre Beretta autoloading handguns, very different from his Army experience as the Trainer tells him. Europe becomes the war zone for this covert and brutal war where terrorist targets are surveilled and then executed mercilessly. Italy's historic and famous Beretta arms company must have made a fortune supplying handguns to Israel. Many Intelligence experst believe that only the Israeli Intelligence serveice has the expertise and even more important, the will and determination for this kind of covert mission. In any fight sometimes it is not the weapons or the plans that count, but the raw and steely determination to fight to the last drop of blood and win. However, is becoming like the terrorist justifiable in civilised society? Can the ends justify the means like Communism? Well, God only know, that is , if you happen to believe in God. Do we fight fire with fire and thereby create an inferno or fight fire with water and turn the other cheek. However, as many surviving victims will testify, when a terrorist has his loaded, cocked and locked AK47 aimed at your heart, forgiveness is the very last thing on his or her mind. Will love and forgiveness work in such a situation? Waht do you think, really? Turn the other cheek or fight, that is the 64,000 dollar question. Steven Bauer is excellent in this movie. His potrayal of the Type A personality dynamic Commando soldier who is willing to fight for his country is very accurate. As Friedrich Nietsche has said, 'He who fights the dragon, becomes the dragon'. As long as war exists in the minds of men, bullets, bombs and blood will litter the battelfields of the world, as they have done so for so many years. C'est la guerre et c'est la vie. By The Travelling Gourmet
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