LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

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Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Niklas Pivic The core power of this documentary is the intelligently and very touching story as told by Ankie Spitzer, the wife of one of the athletes involved in this.Otherwise, this is a very straight-forward story of how the Olympic Games were hit by terrorists who took the Israeli squad hostage, making some quite incredible demands, and how the "rescue-mission" was completely botched by the German government, kind of shoot-aim-ready, in that order. I'm amazed by how it seems that very few people/governments were genuinely interested in helping out. Also, it felt very weird to me that the Olympics went on despite of the hostage-situation, which happened in the compound.The soundtrack to this documentary is quite bewildering at times, except when slo-mo film is shown of athletes competing. Michael Douglas' drawling voice is - thankfully - not applied often throughout the documentary.All in all: interesting, but if it weren't for Ankie Spitzer and a few other voices chiming in here, there wouldn't be much more than a cinematic equivalent of a Wikipedia entry to this.

johnhenrik This 'so called' documentary is too much like a Hollywood suspense movie. It's supposed to be about the real event that I vaguely remember when I was a kid. It doesn't cover enough of the background information regarding the motives of the 'terrorists' (otherwise referred to as Arabs in Hollywood), or the German Government, or the Israeli Government. Also, for them to insist that the Olympics are meant to foster good relations between people from different countries, is ridiculous. It's competition between countries, that is truly intended to show superiority of certain nationalities over others. THE OLYMPICS ARE NOT DESIGNED TO PROMOTE PEACE! That said, I also have to mention that the Rock music in the movie (which is music I Love) does not fit the scene. The innocent athlete's who get killed from this horrible event are not honored by the music. It just distracts from what happened and the possibilities of why it happened. The constant downgrading of Germany in the movie is disturbing also. The leaders of Germany were obviously not the only ones who wanted to continue the Olympic Games. There was, and is so darn much money that's at stake in advertising and other aspects of these global media events, that no matter what happens, they'll want to continue! As far as the 'terrorists' (or evil-doers, as our GWB would say) are concerned, they are made to look insane and evil near the end of the movie when the 3 survivors get interviewed. Slow motion can do that! This movie needs a lot of work. Israel was not created through peaceful events. Some information about that might explain things a little better. Nothing excuses terrorist events though. But people should realize that terrorist can sometimes be leaders of countries also. Hummm......world...police......????

ShortestFrame I can only agree on what most of the user comments here have pointed out: Notwithstanding the thrilling and gripping style - great editing for instance - in which the events are presented, the film as a whole is fairly questionable because of its undeniable intention to bash the Germans and their police force for what happened while at the same time refusing to investigate into other directions. Furthermore, it gives us little more than a glimpse of the terrorists' motivations, feeding the impression that we're watching a piece of propaganda that is - without a doubt - well executed. The probably most unbelievable faux-pas is that at no time during all the interviews the name of the witnesses are shown. Very amateurish! 8/10 for film-making, 2/10 for subject treatment. See it, but be aware of its slanted view!

stephen-357 This documentary is a revelation for all of us who witnessed on our television sets the hi-jacking of the 1972 Olympics Games by Palestinian terrorists. The ineptness of the German's in every aspect of this tragedy is almost incomprehensible and certainly reprehensible. To hear the interviews with those Germans involved, one would be inclined to share in their obvious amusement at such incompetence were it not for the murder of 11 Israeli athletes. And so one watches this film in three stages, with sadness, disbelief and then anger. For those not yet initiated to the most tragic event in Olympic history, on September 5, 1972, a week into the Olympic Games in Munich, Palestinian terrorists entered the Olympic compound and held hostage 9 members of the Israeli Olympic team, after already killing two who attempted resistance. Their demands were the release of 200 terrorists held primarily by Israel. Israel maintained its policy of "no negotiations with terrorist" while the Germans, anxious to get on with the games, attempted to negotiate a settlement that was never possible. In the end they bungled a rescue operation and all the hostages were murdered. ONE DAY IN September takes a much closer look at the facts, which should be a revelation for those ignorant of the European history of appeasement and the current crisis between radical Islamists and the West. In their desire not to be a target for terrorism, after having three of the Munich terrorists in custody, Germany arranged for the hijacking of a commercial airliner as a means to release their captives with a fictional hostage exchange scheme. One of them still lives to "proudly" tell his tale. The other two were hunted down and killed by Israel, acts that no doubt sparked condemnation from Germany and the UN.