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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters, Gideon Shemer, Carola Regnier
Directed By: Eytan Fox
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781404982352
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 1404982353
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2005-08-30
Running Time: 103
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005-03-04
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This enthralling award-winning film by internationally-acclaimed director Eytan Fox explores the motives, strengths, and, ultimately, the humanity of an Israeli assassin sent to rectify a wrong committed five decades earlier. Eyal is a top assassin in the Israeli secret service. He has killed terrorists before, but this time he is sent to eliminate an aging former Nazi war criminal. During his mission, Eyal meets his target’s granddaughter and grandson, who inadvertently help him uncover his own troubled history and face his demons, while they discover the ugly truth their family has hidden from them for decades. What began as a straightforward mission, has suddenly escalated in intensity and complexity – thrusting three very different people into a thrilling triangle of murder, friendship and fate.
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Summary: Bites more than it can chew
Comment: It is refreshing to watch movies depicting things other than American suburbia and exploding cars, and speaking several languages with naturalness, and seeing actors move against truly urban and/or exotic backdrops.
Yes, I confess, I am one of those people who ravenously scour the BlockBuster and takes anything foreign that looks remotely promising.
But this movie severely tested my patience.
I can't decide whether it is that Lior Ashkenazi and Knut Berger are bad actors, or the plot simply forces them to act in such a stiff way, that they can't perform.
If this movie aims at encompassing the subjects of hatred, identity, homosexuality, war, and forgiveness, and then produce some sort of coherent message, it fails. Instead of a plot, we have characters engaging, more or less randomly, in sanctimonious exchanges that don't add up to much, followed by the occasional gratuitous cruelty.
Paradoxically, the less important the characters, the best the acting is. Gideon Shemer is good as the mild-mannered, avuncular secret service S.O.B. Axel's mother and father are also solid and give a credible performance. Even the short appearances of the rest of the Mossad staff are credible and to the point.
But as soon as Eyal (Ashklenazi) embarks in some statement about the Holocaust or the Palestinians, or Axel (Berger) tries so hard to play the liberal-assumed-homosexual-that-can-be-friends-with-an-hetero, the movie stops dead.
At some point the movie is so trite that becomes annoying.
-Axel's Grandpa is a Nazi war criminal. Gee, I wonder to what Argentine country he fled.
-Eyal has to come, reluctantly, to Germany. Gee, I wonder what is going to happen in the subway when their friends cross a group of skinheads.
-Axel and Eyal have to bath together. Gee, I wonder about what semitic ritual operation they will talk about (all in a safe, heterosexual way, of course).
I don't continue because I risk to ruin whatever little plot the movie has. But you get the idea.
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Summary: "a must see" movie
Comment: One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Character development is fantastic, as you get to know each unique personality.
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Summary: Great film about Israeli assassin
Comment: Now this is what spy movie is supposed to be. Wonderful film about young Israeli assassin and spy who travels around the world terminating members of Mossad and all otherwise labeled enemies of the Israeli state. Our main character Eyal gets a special assignment to find grandfather of the young German brother and sister who was Nazi committing crimes against humanity during WWII. Eyal uses these young siblings as a source of information on the old Nazi fugitive who has been hiding in Argentina for decades. But as Eyal is working on this assignment, he is also fighting his own demons. Iris, a woman whom he loved, has committed suicide and in spite of him pushing aside his true feelings about this event, Eyal is forced to accept inevitable psychological changes that are slowly but surely overpowering him. As Eyal becomes close to siblings Axel adn Pia, he starts to understand his own self and comes to a point when he has to either accept or reject his new self. This is not a traditional spy movie, as we enjoy Eyal's humorous remarks. He is being funny with his superiors, and anyone who crosses his path. If you had to watch a film about assassin and had to choose between "Munich" and "Walk on Water", I woudl tell you, watch "Walk on Water". It is hundred times better - even with the subtitles!
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Summary: Walk on Water DVD
Comment: Finally! A movie with a deep plot that held my interest. This movie was recommended to me by a friend who saw it on a movie channel. Having missed it, I bought it instead and am so glad that I did. It was made in Israel and contains some Hebrew that I was thrilled to hear. The story was complex but easy to follow which included problems with homosexuality as well as a hit man's role in the plot. It's the type of movie that you would not mind seeing again, which I also feel about Casablanca.
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Summary: Cool, intelligent, absorbing, moving
Comment: This film is a neatly told and affecting story, focusing on a Mossad agent who begins to question the point of some of the missions he's been sent on. Lior Ashkenazi is excellent as Eyal, the agent in question. Ashkenazi is a remarkable actor in that although he looks stolid and boring in still photos, as soon as he's moving in front of a camera he's extraordinarily subtle and involving; he also bears a remarkable resemblance to British actor Clive Owen (Croupier), but for my money he's a better actor than Owen. Knut Berger and Catherine Peters are similarly excellent as the German brother and sister who start out as Eyal's marks but end up as his friends. The soundtrack is quirky and fun and the movie as a whole is a bit of a triumph, in that it can be enjoyed be people (such as my wife) who are not all that interested in Israel or the Middle East, but just like and appreciate a good movie.
I find it odd that the very small minority of nutcases who really hate this movie have a perception of it as a 'gay film'. I am a secular heterosexual film fan who has loved the work of gay filmmakers such as the UK's Derek Jarman, but while homosexuality is a theme in this film, it's hardly The Theme. Eytan Fox would go on to make 'Yossi and Jagger', about two male Israeli soldiers who fall in love with each other; I haven't seen it, but on the strength of this little gem I'll give it a go.
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