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17 May 2012

"Valkyrie" Averts Cinematic Disaster

Once you get past the strange mixture of British and American accents, "Valkyrie" emerges as a no-nonsense thriller directed with striking flair by Bryan Singer. Despite some post-production tinkering (which explains the truncated roles of Kenneth Branagh and Eddie Izzard), the film meticulously chronicles the July 1944 assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and its inevitable denouement. Surrounded by a fine international cast, Tom Cruise gives a better-than-adequate performance as mastermind Claus von Stauffenberg. "Valkyrie" succeeds in overcoming the "Cruise's Gate" stigma as evidenced by the ludicrous teaser trailer.

16 May 2012

amazing movie... its hits your heart

This review is from: Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition) (DVD) This video is amazing. It is very well made, and the acting makes it very believable. However, it is sad that it is a true story... we let someone take over Germany who wasn't even German. I just hope we as Americans do not make a similar mistake now.

16 May 2012

Well done

I quite enjoyed the film. It managed to keep you in suspense, hoping for the plan to succeed even though you already know its fate.The bonus documentary film on the disc was a pleasant surprise. I did not know there was an entire additional feature included. Two movies for the price of one is always nice! I'm glad that the digital download is included, but I wish that you could receive the HD download from iTunes for buying the blu-ray instead of only the SD version. This is in the hands of the manufacturer, not iTunes.

16 May 2012

American Accent?

Can anyone tell me why a german soldier not only speaks english, but also has an American accent? and Why his surrounding officers have british accents? Even if you did put that aside, this movie falls short. It had potential to be great, but ultimately falls short just as the plot to kill Hitler had. From what I have read this film is wrather unaccurate as well. Tom Cruises character was apparantly much more of a Nazi sympathizer than this film would have you believe.

Steve Rhodes 06 May 2012

Achieves the authenticity of something that the History Channel would be proud of.

jjbagley-1 06 May 2012

How disappointing can it be

The movie itself was not that bad even considering Brian Singer wasattached to it. The main problem is that every actor has his nativeaccent. I mean, what happened? These are fine actors yet no one has aGerman accent? How can this be acceptable? No matter how good the moviewas this tainted the entire production and is an embarrassment to thefilm industry. How does this major problem get past Brian Singer, TomCruise, the entire production staff and the studio heads? I will have to say the production values were excellent yet that justmakes the acting problems that just more sad. This was the movie thatcould have been.

30 April 2012

A Suspense Thriller?

It's a History Channel Docudrama with better acting and production quality. OK for that, I guess, but the whole flick is designed as a suspense thriller and virtually everyone knows the ending (if you don't then by all means see it). Little dificult to build the suspense they try so hard for given that. Not saying it might not be worth a look as a rental or on TV, but...you get the idea.

donnabarr 30 April 2012

Poetry with Red Flags

There will be a lot of specific spoilers in this review, but hiding theplot in an historically-based movie is like trying not to tell that theboat went down in "Titanic." This household is made of of a couple offilm geeks, and one lay expert in German 20th-century military history,so you're warned.I perked up when the film began with a translation of the originalHitler Oath running across the screen (search "Hitler_Oath" onWikipedia). The oath was central to the hesitation caused in theofficer corps after the Attentat (attempted assassination). Thedirector had my attention.In our household, we enjoy Tom Cruise as an actor. I personally thinkhe's funny, in a very restrained, rather sly, self-referential way.He's also extremely tightly wound. Directors who seem to know how touse him cast him to play very tightly-wound characters, and are notdisappointed. Von Stauffenberg was a badly-wounded man, with all thedelayed stress, pain and frustration that entails, and he yearneddesperately to stop his beloved country from falling any further downthe cliff it had already flung itself off of. He was a traditionalGerman officer, a class that had been trained in extremeself-restraint, right down to their posture ("Haltung."). I expect anyactor playing him to be very upright in physical and moral stance, butto be barely repressing rage and pain. Who better than Cruise? Moments of humor include Cruise throwing his eyeball into EddieIzzard's drink to get his attention (We didn't recognize Izzard untilwe saw his name in the credits, and madly hunted the DVD to get anotherlook at his performance. With no more disguise than a pair of glassesand a flat expression, Izzard hid in plain sight. What a chameleon!)Another moment is when von Stauffenberg turns and snaps the HitlerSalute at Tom Wilkinson (Fromm). Of course Fromm made a huge mistake; aman missing a hand and most of his fingers would no more have beenexpected to salute than he would have been expected to hurry whilechanging his shirt. Besides, saluting Hitler with a handless arm was anoutright insult. Von Stauffenberg more or less told Fromm to go haveintercourse with himself. Loudly.Marvelous minor performances include the officer of the reserve army,with his frustrated sigh of "Assemble the men," and his snapped, "WE'rethe coup, you idiot!" And the sergeant at the Wolf's Lair, whoperfectly mimes Military Fear that causes him to make a terrifieddecision not to touch that empty telephone. His performance isaccurate, right down to the nervous head-shake. Watch for the wholecrew of the teletype message-transfer center, trying desperately not toget themselves -- and their families -- killed if they make the wrongchoice (I was a military teletypist in the '70's and it was allspookily familiar, right down to the message-checking and the sound ofthe raving keys).I've studied the German army in the period intensively, and I can saythe sets, costumes, etc., were beautifully done. The use of the redswastika flags reflect the original use of them in the Third Reich,whose artists and film designers knew what would look good on thescreen. Von Stauffenberg's wife is portrayed as faultlesslyfashionable. Germany had conquered France, but the French fashionindustry refused to be crushed, as a form of very French protest. Withaccess to this industry, wives of high-caste German military officerswere expected to maintain a highly fashionable appearance as a form ofpatriotism; to have appeared in old or cheap dresses would have been toaccuse the regime of being unable to keep up the populations's surfacestandard of consumerism.The music was more Stravinsky than the thin and upbeat love-songs andmilitary marches that were allowed in the Third Reich, but at leastwe're allowed samples of those original tunes. It would have been funto hear some of the fake swing from the official jazz bands that weresupported to compete with Allied broadcasts.We know how this would end, but we were on the edges of our seats(well, couch and rocking-chair) all the way through. There was a realattempt to show the terror Germans lived while under this government,although it might have been more real to show how the regime began toinsanely clean house, killing thousands of people in and out of theofficer corps. As a World War One Austrian soldier, Hitler hated theGerman officer corps, and wouldn't have held back if he'd had thechance to get them, even as he cleaned out the very soldiers who foughtthe war. Not the first -- or last time -- personal or politicalconsiderations would cripple an army.I could bore for England about the history and how it relates to thismovie; again, excellent research.The cute use of the MGM logo, small and silver, at the end of thecredit roll: it looks exactly like the cockade, oak leaves and silverstrap on a German officer's cap. Yes, we got the joke, so whoeverpulled it, it wasn't in vain.Then again...the MGM lion logo came before the modern German capdesign. We've been comparing the logo and the cockade design more andmore. And remembering the Third Reich hired artists. Who can always getpast censors with a little clever design. Did "Valkyrie" point out anold joke the artists pulled on the Nazis a long time ago? It would befun to think so.

brocksilvey 28 April 2012

Tom Cruise Plays One Hotsy-Totsy Nazi

Had a better actor than Tom Cruise been cast in the lead role,"Valkyrie" might have gone in some interesting directions. But it's TomCruise we get, and so "Valkyrie" ends up being a modestly excitingaction film that staunchly resists the impulse to be anything special.Cruise plays a German officer with anti-Hitler sentiments, who leads acovert operation to assassinate the dictator and stage a coup in thelast days of WWII. The film is based on a true story, but take that forwhatever it's worth. Director Bryan Singer, of "The Usual Suspects"fame, keeps things moving along at a clip, but all of the period detailand pretensions to historical accuracy can't obscure the fact that thisis just routine Hollywood action fare. Any potential the screenplaymight have afforded to draw parallels between the ruthless Fuhrer andCruise's single-minded idealist are tossed aside, and the film decidesinstead to treat Cruise unambiguously as a fallen hero. Makes the filmgo down smoother perhaps, but also makes it much less interesting.The supporting cast is a who's who of British actors that includes BillNighy, Kenneth Branagh and Tom Wilkinson.Grade: B

27 April 2012

Operation Valkyrie is "in effect-ual"

Unintentional comedy is off the charts in this one. The trailer where Tom Cruise says the classic line "Operation Valkyrie is in effect" is not only said once but twice in this flick. Surrounded by a bevy of great Brit actors (Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp, etc.) who chew up the scenes, this movie is still a total mess. Having Cruise act with a patch over his eye and a missing hand was not up there with Jack Nicholson with his sliced nose in Chinatown in the annals of great acting while having a movie inspired disfigurement.If you know anything about WWII history it's also laughable how much they twist for movie suspense. I actually thought the movie started off well with the Afrika Korps scene but after that it became mostly a movie about shuffling papers and getting them signed followed by the plot to kill Adolph Hitler. They could have chopped about 30 minutes off this movie and made a half-decent watchable motion picture.The DVD extras I'd love to comment on, but there are none.

Jennifer Miller 19 April 2012

Sure, it's complicated to set up the assassination of a lunatic dictator, but does it have to be so boring?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU 18 April 2012

Sulphorous and Diabolical

That film is essential to plainly understand that history is never deadbecause it is always a movement coming from the contradictions of theworld and the world will never be empty of contradictions. The filmdisturbs some good fragile European minds because it says that theGermans knew about the concentration camps and the Shoah because theyjust could not ignore it. It was public history. The Night of Crystaldid not go unseen, and the concentration camp of Ravensbrûck was justacross from the eponymous village on the other side of the smalleponymous lake. And could the inhabitants of Weimar be that blind andnot see the convoys going up to the camp of Buchenwald and running atthe foot of the statue of Goethe and Schiller? Yes we have to reexaminesome truths that are no longer valid enough. It disturbs many Europeanminds to say that there were opponents in Germany and that they werenot all dead, as long as they did not become dangerous, and that theseopponents served Hitler because Hitler had managed to drape himself inthe toga of Germany. It is disturbing to say that history dictates itsown way and that no one can stop it and that it will never stop andthat it will never end. Some can hijack it or slow it down. But anyevent is produced by the contradictions of the time and not by the willof anyone, not even the masses if these masses do not push in thedirection where history wants to go, where the inner contradictions ofthe society itself dictate that it should go. It is pure vanity topretend that you, singular, plural or collective, make history. Whenfor a reason of any type history can be forced in a direction which isnot its own, sooner or later that hijacking will create newcontradictions that will bring the forces of freedom back on the tableand history will go on along its own way, and yet that hijacking willhave been the product of the very society in which it occurred. IfHitler lasted so long it is because he was produced by a certainsituation and managed to get an authority that became hypnotic to thepeople, but he forced history and he created a violent contradictionthat led to his own end. If Stalin lasted so long it was for exactlythe same two reasons, even if his hijacking was not in the samedirection as Hitler's and if the end came from the absolute exhaustionof all economic dynamism in the Soviet society. But Mao did the verysame mistakes and his regime was saved when the economic dynamism wasreleased in China itself, and Fidel Castro after him and after him Cubawill have to choose the same solution as the Chinese, the Vietnameseand many other countries have chosen, including in Europe of course. Attimes history comes back with extreme violence, at times with somevelvet revolution, but it always comes back against those who try toforce it, even if they are called Cromwell or Napoleon. And thatdisturbs our good old European friends because they want to solvehistorical problems by passing an act, publishing a statute or an edictor a law. Pure European vanity. It is thus a good thing that someexterior minds come into the picture and start telling these Europeansthat they should try to think better and stop legally censoring lifeand history, and both life and history don't give the slightest damnabout it anyway. The flaw of this film is that it is superficial and itdoes not really give the deep contradictory motivations of both therebels and the Nazis, as Guenther Grass did recently by peeling theonion of his memory. But that dryness is probably the Scientologisttouch of Tom Cruise because Scientology as well as Dianetics are tryingto make life too clear to be deeply loaded with emotions andcontradictions.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, UniversityVersailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID

wjn44 15 April 2012

great movie

Will these critics PLEASE quit panning Cruise and just take care of thebusiness of OBJECTIVELY reviewing a movie?!! This is a really greatfilm and close to historically correct. I spent several years inGermany and this subject was discussed with some of my German friendsand the movie comes as close to history as any while still beingentertaining. I am not a Cruise mainstay fan or a Cruise hater, but thefact is its time for these Hollywood stupid types to find anotherwhipping boy! Enough!!! This guy has made a great impact with MOST ofhis movies, and by and large I have really enjoyed the ones that I havechosen to see. Thanks to IMDb for having this outlet for movie fans tohave an outlet for OUR reviews!!!

Avi Offer 15 April 2012

With a more intelligent and taut screenplay, Valkyrie could have been much more riveting rather than merely be sporadically thrilling, mostly bland and, ultimately, underwhelming.

dutchthea 09 April 2012

Entertaining history-lesson

I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan. I think he has a tendency to play thesame characters usually a bit too heroic. And don't get me started onScientology. However putting all this aside, I actually enjoyed hislatest movie. I am interested in history and I know most there is toknow about WW II. So I knew about Von Stauffenberg and his attempt tokill Hitler. I also remember seeing a documentary some years ago aboutthe fate of some of those accused of participating in the attempt. Apretty gruesome fate ( they were tortured and hung on meat-hooks afterbeing humilitated by 'judge' Freisler.) This didn't happen to VonStauffenberg, he was quickly executed along with some accomplices. Sowe know the attempt failed. Does that mean this is a dull movie? No!Actually you keep kinda hoping for a different ending. I didn't knowthat the conspirators actually tried to secure Berlin. The movie looksgreat and authentic. The actors are dependable and Cruise? Cruise isquite good really. He doesn't speak good German so I didn't mind thatthe movie was spoken English. Some questions do remain....like why hadFromm Von Stauffenberg and some accomplices so quickly executed againstHitler's orders? It cost him his own life eventually. Why did Olbrichtwait to declare operation Valkyrie? Nevertheless this is anentertaining lesson in modern history.

09 April 2012

Cruise, the actor...

always give us our money's worth. A well told version of true events is time well spent. Worth a look.

Brian Webster 04 April 2012

Tom Cruise's ego-driven "Look at me; aren't I heroic?" performance detracts, but it's just too compelling and the other performances too pitch-perfect for this to ruin things.

03 April 2012

Good depiction of little known event

OH NO, this movie is SUBTITLED! Or so I thought--the beginning narration was in German audio with subtitles, well, being too lazy to learn German and since I really don't WATCH movies but largely LISTEN to them while doing something else, the DVD was about to go back into its sleeve. However, the German quickly transitioned into English and I was happy, my DVD ejection fingers snagged a Cheeto instead.The July 20th Bomb Plot aftermath led to the arrest of at least 7,000 people by the Gestapo.with at least 4,980 people executed. Since many of these were high ranking individuals, a surgical strike as suggested by the "Dirty Dozen" other war movies or even actual Allied actual operations could not have done better than what an irate Hitler did against his own people. Among the casualties was Erwin Rommel of "Desert Fox" fame. With it ended the resistance movement in Germany. Though the movie does not mention Erwin, historically he played a much smaller role in the resistance than I originally thought. Nevertheless, after Schindler's List and a few others publicizing the crimes and atrocities of that country, a film dramatizing this little known event of the Reich does Germany a service. Not all Germans were memorized by Adolf's promises, but, regrettably, it was their dumb luck all 15 of their attempts failed. Note to self-- "stay away from assassination plots against Hitler."For an army corporal to take power and have afraid even Field Marshals is certainly remarkable in and of itself. But it is this very same corporal even today whose name is reached for when someone seems to become too difficult to deal with "Your just HITLER," or "you're just like HITLER." Adolf had succeeded in creating a pervasive "Cult of Personality " around him that far exceeded his physical prowess and reaches across time. When Col.Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg bomb plot neared, Hitler began to suffer very visibly from physical aliments.The movie portrays well the weak and sickly Adolf, but I do not feel entirely convinced of this "Cult of Personality" the intensity of charisma Hitler emanated. Certainly the actors/ characters responded as in the telephone scene with Goebbels, to an Adolf who was very much in charge.With Generals in the resistance, one may ask, "how it is it the Colonel is so influential?" Historically, the Colonel's strong moral convictions (he was a Catholic) and transfer of key leaders motivated the resistance to take more decisive action. I got the impression though some of this is contrived, "ok Hitler got us THIS far, but now that we're losing, the crimes, the dead bodies, yeah THAT's it."he HAS to GO..." But historically, the Colonel had sincere convictions that caused him to question the German cause from 1942 at least. One may wonder why this late date, but in a totalitarian society where no one is allowed to own a cell phone and internet access denied , it might take awhile before word gets around. It is easy to see why Tom Cruise took the role of the Colonel.. He played center role with many of the scenes revolving around him, but so did the actual Colonel in the real bomb plot of July 20th . Once things go bad and Hitler emerges with a few cuts and bruises (when reading about the other plots as well as this one, there can be little doubt that the man is uncannily lucky) death precedes him. Millions more die in the war as well the 4,980 people executed as the result of the failed attempt. One might wonder, gee God, briefcase just a little bit to to the other side of that table leg, or ComeON God, make the weather a little cooler so they use the BUNKER as planned by the co-conspirators or WTF Colonel, they gave you TWO explosive charges!!!Still, Hitler was not an immovable force, he could have gotten a clue, changed his ways...maybe even apologized.Joachim von Ribbentrop's statement at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946 after Hitler popped himself and the Russians pinched his jawbone: "Even with all I know, if in this cell Hitler should come to me and say 'Do this!', I would still do it."See this movie!!!Five stars, one taken away for Misc stuff such as er maybe the Hitler actor just was not as intense as I thought he should be, but then , they might really.... have to get HITLER... ok FIVE stars.

30 March 2012

Magazine articles proven wrong...again

9/10 Stars Forget all the negative hype surrounding Valkyrie, because I assure you it is false. Bryan Singer has made a well-crafted thriller that kept me and my family on the edge of our seats until the end - even though we all know what the story's unfortunate outcome. Also, many tabloids were making this out to be the movie that would permanently cripple the career of Tom Cruise. This is entirely false. Cruise delivers a fine performance, and this hatred I can only assume is related to his rather odd personal life. Tom Cruise is as strong of an actor as he ever was, and I won't let something like turning Oprah's couch into a playground deny the fact that the man has talent, and is a truly passionate actor (and seriously, he does have a slight resemblance to Stauffenberg).The movie is based on the last of fifteen known attempts on the life of German dictator Adolf Hitler (I'm sure everyone will have him in a nice "Five Most Evil People" list), and has Tom Cruise playing Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who of course was the key player in the assassination attempt. Ultimately this attempt failed (as we all know Hitler would die by suicide nine months later), but that doesn't keep Valkyrie from being an addictively engaging film.Every member of the cast does their part well, not jockeying for superiority in any way. More importantly Cruise does not grandstand in this movie, fading in with the rest of the cast, rather than trying to stand above them like you'd expect, given his past films. Cruise gives a performance similar to 2005's War of the Worlds, where he does a good performance, but he never tries to overpower the other members of the cast. In Valkyrie Tom Cruise is a being a good team player, not trying to steal any glory, and never once does he overact the part.Using very little CGI Valkyrie is also a wonderful film to look at. The vintage automobiles and aircrafts make this film have a distinct authentic flair that few other war films have (CGI looks like it was only used for the climatic assassination attempt). You can look at this and tell that this is the real deal, with the production team putting careful care into how they want this film to look, unlike most Blockbuster films that try and inflate every aspect of the film rather than aim for reality. Like the performance by Tom Cruise they don't try and overpower the audience with special effects, they simply let the characters slip into the realistic settings.Also, the complaints about the accents I truly feel are desperate attempts to bash Cruise's performance. It was director Bryan Singer's concept to not use false German accents, and not that of Cruise, or the primarily British cast. I agree with Singer's concept that if feels false, and inaccurate to have people speak in English, but with foreign accents. I know several Germans in real life, and they do not sound very "German" when they speak in English, because the accent is not intended for the English language. I personally feel the desire for English being spoken in German accents comes from decades of WWII films where we've categorized every-single member of the German army, and by them speaking in that accent only is to cliché them and separate them from American audiences. They can speak in German accents, but only if they're speaking in German, because if they aren't it seems to be a tool to keep your common American moviegoer from relating to the characters.Don't go into Valkyrie expecting to be greeted with a horrifically bad film that you will be able to poke fun at with friends. The movie has been released, and I feel the rumors, and negative hype of been proven decisively false. This isn't a movie to kill Cruise's career, but it won't help him regain love in the American community either (as previously mentioned he doesn't shine so much as mix in with the rest of the cast). It is a very enjoyable dramatization of a true event, and I don't think the material could have been handled much better, even with a full German cast, because Singer's style and method of conveying this story are all very well-done.Go out and enjoy this dramatization of one of the darkest periods of human history. It is worth every second of your time, and all though it isn't Oscar-worthy it is certainly worth two-hours of your time.

Moira MacDonald 30 March 2012

You just can't quite enter the world of this film, not in the way that you might have if a more nuanced and less iconic actor had played the central role.