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Revenge stories are sweet. Sword of Gideon is a made for HBO movie that chronicles Mossad-led payback time for the 1972 Olympics massacre terrorists. Lesser known and less flashy than the movie ‘Munich’ (released in 2005) it is no less taught of a thriller. However, this is nearly a 3 hour mo…

A mashup of Israel’s bravura capture of Adolph Eichmann and the moral confusion of Munich, The Debt pays off almost completely, missing perfection by ceding reality. Well that and because the Mossad agents’ reluctance to kill the fictional Surgeon of Birkenau annoys as much as it galvanizes….