September 5 Reviews

Summary Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, September 5 follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, the film provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time...

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My Score

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As a movie, it’s riveting. It also ends up being a thoughtful study in media coverage very much worth contemplating.

It’s a serious movie unburdened by self-seriousness, its own and that of the profession it explores with cool, analytic dispassion.

Très bon film sur l'attentat des Jeux Olympiques d'Allemagne après la 2nd Guerre Mondiale. Mélangent images d'archives et scène recrée par le réalisateur, on ne voit pas la différence. Recommande pour tout amateurs de films historiques.

Excellent movie. Clearly all the 0 ratings are from people that didn’t see the movie and are politically motivated to try and bring the movie down due to misinformation.

It’s terrific: nail-chewing, edge-of-the-seat stuff.

Throughout the film, we know as much as ABC does and nothing more. Filled with scenes of process, it’s as suspenseful as any thriller.

It’s hard to watch September 5 without feeling some serious ambivalence – but in a way, that’s one of the strengths of the film, because it embraces that ambivalence as a necessary part of the story.

With its single, ultimately blood-soaked day to cover, this wants to be a pressure-cooker thriller, but something’s a little off with the settings.

The film isn’t interested in anything that would detract from providing audiences with the sustained pleasure of watching a clock-ticking thriller.

SEPTEMBER 5 (2024) is an insanely thrilling and intense movie that expertly blends the real events of the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage and the recreated events of the ABC news station through fantastic editing, breathtaking performances from an amazing cast, great score, and storytelling, and the cinematography is good, ****'s **** INTENSE!! Also to add on, the set design was outstanding, along with wardrobe and hair, but, and this may just be a me **** seeing the inner workings of a news/broadcasting station was **** **** cool, and the intensity of it all, and how it all works.

Una película contenida que sabe manejar el suspenso. Quizá hay una pequeña indictrinación y carece de grises.

Solid film particularly tense in later scenes but overall I felt a little disappointed due to the lack of tension and urgency. Good performances. Numerous nominations. WATCHED: 19th February 2025

A strange film released at the worst possible time. This recreation of the media coverage of the kidnapping of Israeli athletes by a Palestinian commando during the 1972 Munich Olympics is well-shot, well acted and striking in its depiction of the difficulties of doing live journalism in the 20th century. However, its exclusive focus on the media event leaves out any nuance of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, which led to a humanitarian tragedy in Gaza. Well made but inadvertently tone-deaf to the current situation.

(Mauro Lanari) The Olympic truce was viable until the Games ceased to be a niche event, morphing into a mass phenomenon, a matter of custom, and a subject of planetary interest, fueled by advancing media technology. Once they ascended to become the greatest global stage, they could not fail to tempt anyone, including those involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fehlbaum mastered a taut pacing within a claustrophobic context, respecting the 90-minute runtime; his story could not have held up for a longer duration. Blunders by ABC, German police, whoever else? What could have prepared anyone for dealing live with such an unprecedented event? Does it contribute to still-current questions? But since time immemorial, problems have existed no longer to be solved, but to coexist with them.