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Pretty Good

Expected more

A lot of fun.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Walk on Water is a film worth catching. The plot of the Mossad man asked to go undercover to watch the German grandson and Kibbutzim granddaughter of a major Nazi is already fascinating - but the script and acting delivers massively in making this more than simply a drama. It would be wrong to even label it a thriller - it is a complex, yet beautiful piece, with a good sense of pace, that centers around a variety of themes involving identity and international belonging.The wider notions of culture and identity and even sexuality that are raised here are both poignant and interesting. It is a film that is easy to watch, but raises at the same time interesting questions while you're watching it. The mix of tourism, kibbutzim, police work, and the city life coupled with the contrast between the individuals makes this a satisfying watch.All in all this Israeli production shines with intelligence, good drama, and a sense of values that not inherently obvious invade and stay after the credits roll. Recommended.

This film could have been much better had it focused on German-Jewish relations a few decades after the Holocaust. This issue is certainly serious and interesting enough, and it hasn't been discussed in many other films.However, Walk on Water insists on dealing also with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, homophobia, and marriage problems. This is just too much and none of the subjects receive proper treatment.Further, the plot through much of the film is just unreasonable, with one story hole following another.The characters are ridiculously stereotyped, and firstly the tough, racist, homophobic macho Mossad man, confronted with an easy going openly gay German and Palestinian. Knowing how miserable the lives of gay Palestinians are, one should bear in mind that these characters are in no way representative.Yet, the movie was still worth watching for me, for the fresh, though inadequate point of view on German-Jewish relations. I guess people who are interested in Israel could find this movie interesting, though surely there are many films which give a much more realistic picture.

What makes this an interesting film, may also make this an impossible film. To try and fit in all the feelings of Jews and Germans into an hour-and-a-half film, and then come up with some sort of resolution...well, good luck.Additionally mix in tensions between Palestine and Israel, work in a homosexual angle and there is a lot at stake.Still this film fares decently, I think led by fairly authentic characterizations by its actors. The lead role is most discussed here on IMDb, but I thought the German siblings were as germane to the film and more believable. Apologies to all the world's hit men, but whether Mossad or Mafia, the mindset of a murderer is not one I'm generally eager to explore.As said murderer, Lior Ashkenazi has to fight the power of Tom Cruise. His "Eytal" could have easily stuck to the stylish macho persona who then glides through a airtight instant epiphany, but instead Ashkenazi allows for some awkwardness and even self-recrimination. Using the foil of Axel's (portrayed by Knut Burger) happy homosexuality was a nice way to unravel Eytal.Axel is the most comfortable character on screen; likely as his cinematic parents, aka director Eytan Fox and screenwriter Gal Uchovsky, are a gay couple. Here is an interview with Uchovsky for what it's worthhttp://hotzOne.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs2559On that gay front, Axel is an interesting character, almost a patron saint of homosexuality. Spouting off a parable of peace, sleeping with men almost less for ass and more as an ambassador (his survey of penises of the world almost feels like a papal tour). Axel is almost a little too darling, maybe new to Middle Eastern filmgoers, but in America that feels very early 90's to me. We've moved on to gay couples every bit as messed up as straight couples, see "Six Feet Under" perhaps?Ultimately it's hard to disagree with a film that makes a case for getting to know "the enemy" on some personal level, but it is also hard to get overwhelmed about such a film as well. There is also a notion of *who* must atone for crimes gone by, you'll know the answer.Some of the small side aspects of the film were of note, how (perhaps) folks living with the daily specter of a suicide bomber might react, versus folks (like myself and Axel in the film) find the concept so alien and unnerving. The bargaining in the stalls/bazaars. The notion that some Israeli's went to Germany on a field trip, that sounded like something maybe based on fact. Some serious generation gaps growing in the German family here...It's when the film gets caught up in the plot, that I disagree with others here...this does sort of feel like a Hollywood movie, in a weird way. Expensive soundtrack tie-in, the aforementioned hallowed homosexual, the tidy finish...still it was worth watching, it tosses a lot of balls in the air...even if it doesn't catch them all. I wonder if in the first pass, the filmmakers flirted with the idea of making this a love story, and then introduced the sister for us breeders?6/10 Thurston Hunger

"Walk on Water" is courageous film, confidently directed by Eytan Fox based on the screenplay written by his partner Gal Uchovsky and well acted. Its subject is a Mossad's agent whose new mission is to hunt the former Nazi criminal who lives nowadays somewhere in South America. In order to trace him, Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) takes a job as a tourist guide for the grandson of war criminal - sociable, open, friendly young German, Axel. Axel arrives to Israel to visit his sister Pia who chose to live in Israel and work in a kibbutz and to talk her into reconciling with their parents. Eyal drives Alex in his SUV, shows him the country. They sit on the coast of Dead Sea, both smeared by celebrated therapeutic mud from neck to toes. In another scene, Alex tries to walk on the water of Kinarteth (the Sea of Galilee); three of them visit the gay- bar in Tel Aviv - Alex does not hide his sexual orientation.The characters are interesting and compelling. The story is engaging and I feel connected to the movie the way very few movies make me. I recognize the places I've been to and I've come to love and to dream of seeing them again and again. The film starts in Istanbul, Turkey on the boat over the Bosphor and the guide talks about the bridge between Europe and Asia. I've been on the boat like that and I saw the bridge. Then the action takes place in Israel and I was happy to recognize Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, The Sea of Galilee (Kinereth), The Dead Sea where one just floats without swimming, the desert.The plot moves from Israel to Berlin where Eyal is visiting with his new friend's family. Alex's and Pia's father celebrates his anniversary and for the first time, a helpless dying old man arrives to Berlin, the Nazi criminal, Axel's and Pia's grandfather, Eyal's target. The film explores the moral dead ends of the modern society full of hostility and old unpaid debts. Eyal remembers the history of his country and its people, he knows not from the books about Holocaust. He is a soldier and must be merciless but he has to learn something about understanding from his young German friend. Film attracts by the non-standard approach to the familiar themes of religious prejudices, homophobia, neo-fascism, newest terror and other sources of the hatred, which destroys the world. It would not surprise me to find out that the film has many detractors in Germany, Palestine, and in Israel. The final is a little too neat and belongs to the modern fairy tale genre. I see it as the director's dream that he wanted to come true - the people with different backgrounds, mentalities, history, and preferences would understand one another and would come toward one another with the open hearts and clean thoughts. Dreams, dreams...