Diagonaldi Very well executed

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

mike-2923 My main objective watching this movie was to enjoy the Israel scenery being born in Israel and maybe the plot looked interesting. However! I was delighfuly surprised. I thought the movie was excellent! It has suspense, it was captivating, historical from multiple point of views, it made you think and even cry. Great start and ending. It has all elements that should be in a great movie. Acting was also spot on with a good casting. I watch allot of movies and am usually with everyone else on the IMDb ratings. I don't rate 8.0 for just any movie, but this was one worth it. You should add this to your must see list. If you have netflx, stream it, I did. Enjoy.

orly-yahalom 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.

bobgeorge1 Walk on Water is summarised well in many reviews. Some of them avow and generate extremes by using terms like "Terrorist". The film grapples with extremes of prejudice. The Mossad agent Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi) assassinates a Hamas leader at the start of the film returning home to find his wife has committed suicide. Eyal is detached. He has to be to do his job. His boss Menachem gives him a safer temporary job of pretending to be a tour guide for the grandchildren of a Nazi war criminal, Alfred Himmelman, with the idea that the tourists will lead him to their grandfather.This German brother and sister with their own issues open up the eyes of Eyal to his own prejudices; he is challenged by Axel Himmelmans (Knut Berger) sexuality. He is also challenged by Axel's sister Pia (Carolina Peters), a German lass who lives and works on a kibbutz in Israel.I saw this film on television. I chanced upon it with no reviews or prior knowledge and got quite gripped by the tensions of the main character. Other reviewers have said that Lior Ashkenazi is an attractive actor.What intrigued me was the struggle to let go of being hurt. I've been working with a couple who can't let go of their anger with each other; of the hurt that comes through being violated in different ways. I'm not sure that love overcomes everything is quite the answer. I'm not sure that this film answers that question although it does highlight it so well.It felt like a film in black and white; lots of deep shadows and in the end...well go see and decide

Polaris_DiB This movie reminds me of Munich, though it's actually made by an Israeli, is better, and came first. It's the story of Eyal, an assassin sent to host a German tourist named Axel in order to discover the whereabouts of Axel's grandfather, an escaped Nazi that the Israeli's want brought to justice. As the two get to know each other, though, they spark up a friendship that contrasts against the violent and disturbing contemporary world of daily suicide bombings and the estranged, powerful history of the Holocaust.As the story proceeds, characters are made of small moments of dialog and big revelations as the two grind against the edge of hate and love and try to figure out what their role assumes in this world. This movie is very revealing of the Israelite's own role in the violence of the particular area and era, and also analysis the way hate threads itself through history to haunt the futures of even the most self-assured, open-minded people.Unfortunately, it also has a very sentimental ending which almost subverts the power of the movie as a whole. But everything preceding it, especially the scenes involving the Nazi grandparent himself, vastly overweighs the film and maintains a sense of pained hope.--PolarisDiB