Tal der Wölfe - Palästina

First time I have (knowingly) watched a Turkish movie. Regardless of bias claims, inaccuracy bleating, and all the rest from various reviews, I found this to be a gripping, fast moving spectacle as good as anything out of Hollywood, and approaching in style anything from the French action/thriller genre.

The heroes were just that, despite the violence, and it is about time that some one other than Americans, British, and possibly the French, were portrayed as super-skilled warriors. Anti-Semitic? No way, the heroine is Jewish. Pro Palestinian? Why not? These people are treated like dirt by occupying invaders with apparent impunity on the world stage.

For me, this was as riveting as Black Hawk Down or The Kingdom, with a setting and backdrop as good as the actual movie itself. Inconsistencies only serve to highlight issues and prompt further investigation for a more balanced view.

I have given 7/10 because the ending is a bit abrupt, otherwise it would have got 8 or even.....

When an Elite Israeli special force team hit a humanitarian ship that was headed to Gaza (Palestinian) in International waters middle in the night with helicopters, 9 civilians were killed during heavy Israeli fire. All members of the boat were civilians, unarmed (not counting the sticks and kitchen knives) compared to the heavy artillery the Israeli soldiers had.

It created an enormous event in the Middle East; the media was all over it, especially in Turkey which has led to a political conflict between two countries.

The producers and creators of Kurtlar Vadisi (Valley of the Wolves) and the franchises of the series had announced to produce a movie which will tell the story of what happened that night. It was critically acclaimed so to say in the Middle East and released internationally. I'm one of the lucky ones who could watch this movie in Germany, which was first banned by FSK (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Filmwirtschaft) for accused violence and political reasons. After an appeal the film was released for audience above the age of 18.

For those who have watched "Munich" before the story line what expects you is pretty much the same. 11 Israeli athletes were killed in 1972 during the Olympics in Munich and an Israeli special team was assembled to get revenge and kill the responsible ones for the attack.

In this movie you have the same element: Polat Alemdar and his men are going to find the persons responsible of the attack on the humanitarian ship, and punish them.

It brings the drama in Palestinian to screen; innocent killing and conflicts in Gaza. I myself found the level of violence and killing in some scene rather unnecessary. Avoiding some political references and lines would have made this movie lot better.

There were no obvious and bothering political messages in Munich, despite some of critics described the movie as an "Israeli propaganda movie". If you think the same as I am, you will not have a problem watching this movie.

Let me remind you it's not a 100 million dollar movie. It has a big budget compared to the production in the Middle East but you will see the difference in production and some authenticity flaws if you compare it to American blockbusters.

I am writing the review again as somehow my old review written in 2012 got deleted.

This film is jus like any action film which shud jus be enjoyed for its awesome action sequences.

I first saw this in 2012 on a dvd which i own.

Revisited it recently.

Its like Rambo on steroids.

Of course the body count aint anywhere close to Rambo 4.

The gun firing sequences r awesomely shot. The bombings, the chase, the mini war like sequence is top notch.

Action fans will rejoice. Some haters r finding it unbelievable that an elite group of only four soldiers wreak havoc on a sadist military group.

And the same group of haters rejoice when Bond, Xander Cage, Ethan Hunt, Rambo, etc. Single handedly take on huge armies.

Havent seen any of its prequel or sequel but looking forward to Valley of the Wolves : Homeland, as the trailer is awesome.

Mind you, this film is not against Jews or Israel.

It is jus an action film about one group of soliders taking on another group.

I jus enjoyed the action.

most people find this movie one sided it is ......... which war based movie isn't ??? p.s it is just as one sided as the reality is ... even the death toll of Palestinian children is more than Israeli army !! the movie is based on the same reality with a lot of amateur filming mistakes and definitely can not be compared to any Hollywood movie with remotely as high budget as of this movie, the action could have been made a lot better than what was shown in the movie... still it was a good movie !this movie certainly shows one thing that Turkish film industry can produce good movies. i'd certainly recommend to see this movie to everyone

This is a great Turkish movie, but still got lot of goofed flaws and holes:

1) The Israeli thug called Moshe was shot directly into his right eye by a 9mm bullet could still be survived? And he could get up right away after his eye was sewn together. So where was the bullet? So the bullet just stopped right at his eyeball and didn't penetrate further into his brain? How could it be possible this murdering thug recovered so soon and got no brain damage at all? Is he blessed by the so-called God? if so, the God should never let him been shot in the first place.

2) Shot a Israeli jeep with so many shots, but there were no bullet holes on the windshield when they took over the jeep, not even a scratch. Well, even an heavy armored car would have been so scratch free.

3) The 3 Turkish commando and their Palestinian comrade invaded the Israeli's control command center, then just threw two bundled dynamites to blow up what? Desks, chairs and some monitors? How could a well trained Turkish commando guy do such amateurish work? Why he didn't blew up the computer center?

4)When they blew open the security door and disrupted the power, how could it be possible when the Moshe thug came into the control center could still use the computer?

There are so many many flaws in this otherwise action-packed movie. Those actors who played the killers on both sides, didn't need any talent to perform convincingly in this movie, the endless firefight actions would only them to shoot to kill. One-sided, some viewers complained? Who doesn't and didn't? Because anything from different angle to look at by different people, races, religion, the occupants, the occupied...everybody got the right to tell their own stories. It's not one-sided at all; so if you think it's one-sided, it only means that you've already chosen one side you preferred to look at certain things, such as, well, this movie, it is you who are one-sided. All the Christians loves Jesus and believe in God, but they hate the people who invented the God and where the Jesus came from. Another identity theft and one-sided proof.