Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Christopher McQuarrie và Nathan Alexander
Release date: 06.03.2009 ( Vietnam )
Genre : War,History
Cats : Tom Cruise (Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg), Kenneth Branagh (Major-General Henning von Tresckow), Bill Nighy (General Friedrich Olbricht), Tom Wilkinson (General Friedrich Fromm), Carice van Houten (Nina von Stauffenberg), Thomas Kretschmann (Major Otto Ernst Remer), Terence Stamd (Ludwig Beck), Eddie Izzard (General Erich Fellgiebel), Kevin McNally (Dr. Carl Goerdeler), Christian Berkel (Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim), Andy Gatjen (Angry SS Officer).
Website : http://valkyrie.unitedartists.com/
Time : 120 minutes
Tagline : Many saw evil . They dared to stop it .
In my opinion it’s a bad film! Let me get to the point: Don’t let the trailer for the film fool you. Don’t let the director fool you. Don’t even let Tom Cruise fool you.
The movie is actually two separate films: The first half is actually the planning of Hitler’s assassination. Due to the film being built upon this secret plan, none of the “action” really starts until the second half. That’s where the problem lies. The first film is pretty…uneventful. The second half, although much more exciting and more things happening, is still not as “action packed” as you hope it to be.
The problem with this movie is that, Tom Cruise tried too hard to make Stauffenberg a Hollywood hero.
All credits of the July 20th plot went to this guy. According to the movie, he is the one who get the reserve army idea, he is the one who persuaded all the other members, and he even became the commander of the whole thing at the end…
First of all,I don’t believe a colonel can maneuver a bunch of generals in 40s’ Germany.
Secondly,if Stauffenberg was the key man of the plot, then I must say it’s the stupidest plot ever: what if something went wrong and Stauffenberg dead at the Wolf Lair? The Queen never go to some pacific island to hunt evil scientist, she let Bond do it.
I’m not a WWII specialist, if all these things really happened in real history, then I will give Mr. Hitler some credits for kicking all these generals into reserve army. These guys answers to a colonel and unable to set up a reasonable assassin plan, how could them be useful on The Eastern front?
P/s How could a movie about German Officers and Nazis, contain men speaking English; in perfect American and even British accents?
