Sword of Gideon
by Michael Anderson
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Actor: Colleen Dewhurst, Laurent Malet, Michael York, Peter Dvorsky, Steven BauerDirector: Michael Anderson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, 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
Movie Reviews of Sword of Gideon
Movie Review: Very intense drama
Summary: 5 Stars
Sword of Gideon is a story of revenge by a team of Israeli spies on the perpetrators of the 1972 massacre during the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. Speilberg's movie Munich is a poor remake of the Sword of Gideon. I disagree with other reviewers who call this a poor man's Munich. This show tells the story much better and does not need the gore and blood to do it. Plus Spielberg's treatment of the main characters is quite poor -- in his version they're confused knuckleheads who're trying to figure out what it is they're doing. It's hard to conceive that MOSSAD would ever dispatch such a team for a mission this critical. Sword of Gideon does a much better job portraying the characters and telling the story. After all the better storyteller does not need to use pictures to tell his story -- which is what Spielberg does. He can't tell a good story so he fills up his show with gore.
The show is based on a book that while fictional, is based on real-life events. One of the things the book and this film try to show is the moral dilemma faced by the Israeli agents -- something most Israelis and Jew decry. In either case, it and intense movie, one of the great spy shows out there and definitely worth watching.
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