"This compact Paramount release, covering the 1972 Summer Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich, has a refreshingly simple - but not simplistic - take: Kidnapping and murdering civilians is bad, and there is no context in which to justify it."
"So when the ABC team, guided by rookie producer Geoffrey Mason, hears gunshots from the athletes' housing compound that September dawn, the reaction is natural, in an era before reporters came to associate global events with terror risk: shock and perplexity."
"There is no backstory to explain why the terrorists are doing what they are doing, no tales of supposed Israeli oppression. The terrorists are fully masked. They brandish guns that they have already used, to kill wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano."
"The terrorists are silent and scary. They don't get to tell their 'side' in the film, because they have no 'side.'"
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