Reviews

If you're older than 14, don't think about pressing the play button. I even thought at the beginning the movie is a spoof. Can a teenager make a movie these days? Coz this cannot be an adults work.

As usual in Hollywood movies, ignoring decades of oppression of the Palestinians by Israelis, depict the Arabs (Palestinians) as mere terrorists, savages whose only way of life is to kill Jews. I am an atheist (ex-muslim), I don't hate Jews just like I don't hate Christians, Buddhists, or Hindus. In fact, I hate religion and I detest terrorism and violence in any form (physical or emotional),  and firmly believe that violence is never a solution. But when it comes to the Palestinians, decades of suicide bombings, assassination missions, kidnapping of Israelis for prisoner swap, killing, torturing …etc, I can hardly blame them, they are reluctantly goaded to this horrible life style. This is not a way of life, nobody wants to live like this, but when someone loses his home, his land, his freedom, his life … basic human rights trampled on with tank treads, morals will wither and disappear and blind hatred and violence will arise.

 No western movie has ever depicted the Palestinian oppression by Israelis, how they destroy their homes, their farms, their properties, killing their sons or whoever resists, desecrating their beliefs, plundering their land with their expanding colonies … the list goes on. But the Media always show the Arabs as attacking and the Israelis as defending, never the other way around. No one on earth (including the Arabs) condones what the Palestinian militants did in Munich, it's appalling and inhumane but has anyone ever thought why they did what they did? Those young Palestinians must have had families, children, friends, life …. Like other people on earth they must had their own dreams, prospects …, why would they do this!!! Can anyone Imagine the pressure pushing them toward this kind of violence, this desperation to embark on mission impossible (kidnap the Israeli Olympic team to swap them for Palestinian prisoners) knowing they don't stand a chance? that no one is gonna let them take those hostages no matter what?

I'm an Arab but I hate the Arab culture, their obscurantist traditions and customs, their stagnant civilization and most importantly their predominant and violent religion: Islam. I know the influence of Islam on violence (especially in the middle east), a religion whose more than half of its scripture dedicated to hatred and killing of other people "infidels", a religion that honors terrorism and deem it the ultimate good that leads to heaven. Muslim people have become terrorists, not only because their religion tells them so, but also because the west have always had their hands in the middle east, undermining the stability of the region and the sovereignty of its countries under the guise of democracy and freedom, mostly to make sure the OIL stays under their control, and probably some other strategic purposes. As for the Palestinians, they not only had their share of foreign intrusions, they had their land taken.

 The movie was biased and one-sided, it was not entertaining, and the message it delivered was wrong. I feel sad to see such hatred from both sides, and even sadder that the rest of the world does almost nothing to stop the atrocities committed and endeavor for peace between the two sides, instead they take sides with the oppressors, it's a shame. We are all human beings, we all have 46 chromosomes in each cell of our bodies, we all laugh when we are happy and we all cry when we are sad ... but it seems that the silly differences between us that we human beings created by default will always tear us apart no matter how high our thinking become and in spite of all the biological evolution breakthroughs that eventually led to our existence, we are higher animals, yet interestingly we are the only species on this planet where members kill or mutilate each other, simply for joy !

what a doomed review, neither of the two sides are gonna like it, I bet not even the moderate and open minded of them, but then again, who cares...

nobody likes the sordid truth? ...

sooo what?

Tender, passionate, painful movie about life, nothing new, but still true, and deep. Disappointment in this world is our shadow, no one can shake free from it. feelings overwhelmed me throughout the movie but I have no words to express them, why do we have to suffer, why do we have to age so fast and die regardless of our dreams, regardless of our desires, fulfilled or not. Life... Is not long as some may say, it's short, it's too short and cruel and it does not care for individual lives, it's just about luck, that's all, and by luck I mean everything: how good your genes are, how well and how rich your family is, how prosperous the country you live in is, ... And the list goes on, and we can do almost nothing about it. Some may have what they want and be happy in their lives but many just don't, no matter how hard they try, and the painful thing is: you only got one shot, one life, you can't just go back in time to redeem yourself, to have what you never had, to re-do things that could've changed the rest of your life. It's like a blink of an eye, one day we wake up and find out that it's too late...... it's just cruel. We are the products of our genes, our environment, our lives are determined by them, we think we have choices, but we're wrong, the choices we make are just so minor and insignificant and will never change the way we are molded, ugly people will always be ugly, the stupid will never be smart, the boring will never be interesting or fun to be around, the weak and sick will never be healthy and fit......

We are who we are no matter what we do, we're born... we live with what we have... we die... and that's all we get, and no imaginary God, old or new, can make it up for us.

I was captivated by the acting and script, so engaged that I lost track of time and when the movie ended I was like "what? it just started". anyone who worked as a salesman for a company or an office can relate to this story. the desperation to make a living, the strife to keep your job, the bloody competition are all part of your daily routine, and you have to get used to it and accept your destiny, otherwise don't bother going to work because you'll be replaced sooner than you think. I really liked Alec Baldwin's scene, it was the best in the movie. Not to mention Al Pacino's performance, everybody was real and convincing. if you appreciate real talent, it's a loss to miss such a performance. 10/10

I totally agree with everything Dawkins says but the problem with atheists is that they too are fundamentalist believers just like theist ones, they are so sure that what we know yet about the universe, biology and evolution is the absolute truth and everyone else who disagree with them is blind and wrong. I don't believe that god exists (no evidence), we all know that, but I also don't believe that god does not exist as there is no evidence on this claim too, so I can say that I'm an atheist until proved otherwise. but what we think we know about god and the universe which is religion is bad and naive and causing much more harm than good to the human race(hatred, killing in the name of god, terrorism,myths and superstitions blocking our pursuit of the truth about this world). If there is a god somewhere (which I highly doubt given the indifference and lack of interference in our war torn world) I don't think that such a deity who made us in the first place and programmed us (genetics) to be good or evil would burn us in hell for eternity if he's to be fair, and if he's not then why bother praying and dedicating our time and finite resources to the stupid and meaningless rituals that we human beings do throughout our lifetime hoping that in the other life god will reward us and save us from hell when he already decided who wins and who loses.

Richard Dawkins - two thumbs up.