Saturday. Rain. Lots of it. Well, that’s what it seemed like. I expect we didn’t really have that much, but it just drizzled and fell from 6am to 10pm. On some occasions the sky cleared a little, giving hope that some sun would appear, but then a dreary grey haze fell again.

There’s no CSI for me to watch at the moment. The repeats showing on TV are from Season 6, and which I’ve seen. Alias concluded last week, so I can’t skip ahead on that either. Instead we’re dabbling with DVDs. First up, a review copy of Munich..

Don’t bother. Steven Spielberg’s dramatisation of Vengeance isn’t it a good movie. For the first 100 minutes it looked and felt like a Harry Palmer movie as directed by Woody Allen. During this period, after a (quite good) skim over the events in Munich, the film deteriorates into a formulaic sequence of killings as Avner and his team seek out and murder those responsible for the events. It makes Alias look well paced and considered. The remainder of the film is better, because a sub-plot becomes the main plot of the final hour. However, the conclusion is vulgar, stupid and there are many oh-so-obvious references to 9/11 – not least the final scene. I expected this. Unfortunately, this is what we get from the Hollywood Hand-Wringing Machine.