Why was Ewan's character so stupid?

Haha... I noticed it too. Why didn't he inform his agent or someone else about his discoveries. That way, the information could have been released if he died. The CIA would keep of his back, if they knew that secret information was waiting to be released if they killed him. The movie is really entertaining. But he is unrealistically dumb. Why didn't he shout out the information he discovered at the end?

Plotholes... so many plotholes.

>> Plus. it peddles the bog-standard view of cia=root of all evil.

If you are someone who believes the tools of evil can be used for good, than its not apparent that the CIA is evil
However,if you believe that good actions must come using good behavior and ethics, than the CIA is a tainted organization.

Id say it's a complex world. An eye for an eye usually leads to a cycle of violence, the film Munich does a good job at portraying how vile the intelligence community can be to even some of its most heroic, best agents-at the end of the film, the Mossad agent is essentially left out of any protection, his family could be killed in a reprisal at any time, and the only way his handler will help him if he continues to do insane missions for him....

>> Plus. it peddles the bog-standard view of cia=root of all evil.

If you are someone who believes the tools of evil can be used for good, than its not apparent that the CIA is evil
However,if you believe that good actions must come using good behavior and ethics, than the CIA is a tainted organization.

Id say it's a complex world and it's definitely unclear but an eye for an eye usually leads to a cycle of violence, the film Munich does a good job at portraying how vile the intelligence community can be to even some of its most heroic, best agents-at the end of the film, the Mossad agent is essentially left out of any protection, his family could be killed in a reprisal at any time, and the only way his handler will help him if he continues to do insane missions for him....

>> Plus. it peddles the bog-standard view of cia=root of all evil.

If you are someone who believes the tools of evil can be used for good, than its not apparent that the CIA is evil
However,if you believe that good actions must come using good behavior and ethics, than the CIA is a tainted organization.

Id say it's a complex world and it's definitely unclear but an eye for an eye usually leads to a cycle of violence, the film Munich does a good job at portraying how vile the intelligence community can be to even some of its most heroic, best agents-at the end of the film, the Mossad agent is essentially left out of any protection, his family could be killed in a reprisal at any time, and the only way his handler will help him if he continues to do insane missions for him.

However, in the case of Munich, the retribution on behalf of the Israelis was definitely justified as they had so many of their athletes slaughtered in front of the world. It's just that those people called to carry out the retribution really suffer in the process of carrying out vengeance and many end up dead, killed in counter-retribution.

>> Plus. it peddles the bog-standard view of cia=root of all evil.

If you are someone who believes the tools of evil can be used for good, than its not apparent that the CIA is evil
However,if you believe that good actions must come using good behavior and ethics, than the CIA is a tainted organization.

Id say it's a complex world and it's definitely unclear but an eye for an eye can often leads to retribution sand counter-retributions,

Ostensibly Tony Blair, as he was PM from '97-2007, and the book was published in 2007.

I second JACKDALY. The man was out of his depth in a world of intrigue and deceit.

I agree with that too. I think Ewan McGregor did an amazing job playing this ordinary guy who is stumbling into something he never expected, and who is clearly unable to think clearly in some situations. He really is no hero, but someone at least I can very easily identify with.

I used to have an X-Files quote in my signature.

I disagree. He investigated something that people are obviously willing to kill to keep secret, as they in fact did even before he came onto the scene.

Despite doing nothing much to secure his own safety and indeed provoking even more danger, he apparently expected not to be killed. That is extremely unreasonable.

Once he guessed that his predecessor was most likely murdered, he knew he could be in danger, but he didn't really do anything to protect himself... quite the opposite... I wouldn't say he was stupid, but careless.
And I agree with the previous guy, getting Rycart at his motel when he doesn't know who's the good guy was a bet... that somehow sort of worked out.