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Genres:
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Drama /
History /
Thriller /
War
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Director:
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Bryan Singer
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Actors:
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Eddie Izzard,
Carice van Houten,
David Bamber,
Jamie Parker,
Tom Cruise,
Kenneth Branagh,
Bill Nighy,
Tom Wilkinson,
Thomas Kretschmann,
Terence Stamp,
Kevin McNally,
Christian Berkel,
Tom Hollander,
David Schofield,
Kenneth Cranham
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)151.5
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Plot Summary:
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In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately devise to topple the Nazi regimen the nation is crushed in a near-irrevocable worst. To this put to death, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army narc convinced he protect Germany from Hitler, is recruited to develop a actual design. To do so, he arranges respecting the internal emergency measure, Man: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize curb of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. Manner, even as the envisage is put into ... action, a combination of inauspicious fortuity and magnanimous failings conspire on their own to create a catastrophe that would prolong the greater one gripping Europe.
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Valkyrie
Todd McCarthyAfter a long takeoff, Valkyrie finally takes flight as a thriller in its second half but never soars very high. Bryan Singer's long-awaited account of the near-miss assassination of Adolf Hitler by a ring of rebel German army officers on July 20, 1944, has visual splendor galore, but is a cold work lacking in the requisite tension and suspense. This second production from Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner at United Artists will do better than the first, Lions for Lambs, but is a decidedly odd choice for Christmas Day release, and looks destined for just so-so commercial returns. Cruise himself is a bit stiff but still adequate as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, the handsome, aristocratic officer whose disenchantment with Nazism, the Fuehrer and the war finds s...
Valkyrie
How the German Resistance movement tried to assassinate Hitler and institute a coup against the Nazis. Thriller starring Tom Cruise and directed by Bryan Singer
Is Tom Cruise so compromised as an actor by the baggage of mega-stardom and his controversial beliefs that his very presence prevents suspension of disbelief? Or do the unbelievers in Tom Cruise underestimate the value of his courage in bringing original movies to the world? And when Tom Cruise is wearing a Nazi uniform and sporting an eye-patch, how does our suspension of disbelief fare then? The success or failure of Valkyrie hinges on the star's radioactivity - a deadly zealous energy that makes him too hot for the rest of the human race to handle.
From the beginning, Valkyrie has its wor...
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