The opening sequence, in which a band of Left-wing terrorists take hostages at the American consulate in Munich and arbitrarily execute one of them, is pretty gripping. Subsequent developments, in which the victim's bereaved lover — a mild-mannered cryptographer for the CIA — defies his superiors and sets out for revenge, are beyond belief, but not so far beyond as to be fun. (Example: if the revenge-seeking CIA agent and the Czechoslovakian security chief were both going to be characterized as aficionados of Elizabethan literature, you might have expected more to be made of that fact than merely their commenting on the coincidence of it.) And the "surprise" ending will be an actual surprise only to someone who makes the mistake of underestimating the climate of cynicism about CIA activities. With John Savage, Christopher Plummer, and Marthe Keller; directed by Charles Jarrott. (1982) — Duncan Shepherd
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