Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)

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Actor: Kenneth Branagh, Tom Cruise
Brand: VALKYRIE (DVD MOVIE)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-05-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: United Artists

DVD Reviews of Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)

DVD Review: Very Nice
Summary: 4 Stars

This was a nice little thriller. It was a surprise considering how the critics lambasted it. I thought it was a good story and a great period piece. Tremendous acting all the way around including Tom Cruise who comes under unnecessary fire for his acting skills. The two things against the movie is that everyone knows the ending and everyone in the film uses different accents. I don't mind that German is not spoken by the actors, but I wish they had at least all settled on one accent to use. For me it was a bit distracting and took me a little out of the movie at parts. Overall I think this is a great movie and well worth watching.

DVD Review: Slightly over-indulgent
Summary: 4 Stars

While I certainly enjoyed watching the film, some crucial details of the anti-Hitler plot were tweaked and, as a result, shown incorrectly. They were tweaked, probably in order to ennoble the plotters more (and by extension, in my view, if not to re-write history, but to give a more positive twists to the German resistance during WW2).
For example, General Beck (brilliantly, in my view, played by Terence Stamp) is portrayed as personally asking to commit suicide. In reality, he was ordered to shoot himself by General Fromm, but succeeded only in wounding himself, and a sergeant was brought in to administer the coup de gr?ce by shooting Beck in the back of the neck. The film omitted that.
This and other tweaked details reveal more telling and dubious undercurrent - it is desire by some to present the officers corp as (failed) saviors of Germany - it should be rejected out of hands. In reality, the Wehrmaht's generals, while not rabid Nazis en masse, nevertheless had showed themselves unusually subservient to Hitler. Even the Soviet generals during the War slammed and opposed Stalin's orders more, if they deemed the orders impractical or stupid. It is not by accident that Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (Head of Army High Command, top guy in the Army) had a nickname Lakeitel (a little lackey). I would give the cast five stars, but to the story - three.

DVD Review: I had one problem with this film but overal it was good
Summary: 3 Stars

Everything about this film was good but one thing to me spoilt it.
I had a hard time being convinced that these were Germans with everyone
speaking in their own accent. For instance Schindlers list made a good attempt
to replicate at least English in a German accent. In fact it would have been more
effective if it had been in German with English subtitles.

DVD Review: Suprisingly well done!
Summary: 4 Stars

I finally got around to watching this DVD just recently. I wanted to see the film when it was released but I was a little hesitant because it starred Tom Cruise. I was not sure about Cruise in a WWII film, especially involving an important part of the war.

To my surprise, this film was actually quite well done and the performance by Tom Cruise was quite good. He came across as a believable character and there were moments that you actually fell for his character. The film was in itself pretty accurate in the story that I am familiar with. There are some moments that you shake your head because you want the mission to succeed, even though you know it won't. There were some suspenseful scenes as well.

Overall, I liked it and I would recommend it. I got a good deal for it, right here on Amazon. That doesn't hurt either!

DVD Review: Valkyrie
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is about the 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler captures the ambiance of the Third Reich and tells the story in a captivating way. The acting is excellent throughout. The impeccable detail of the surpise attack by Allied P-40 fighter-bombers in the North African desert at the start of the film, the coreographed flight of Hitler's Ju-52 trimotor aircraft, the organized chaos of the German Army's communications center, the precise deployment of Home Army troops, and other key scenes seize your attention. Valkyrie, the attempt to kill Hitler. Outstanding

Description of Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)

Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/19/2009 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: Pg13

Unpretentious and dramatically straightforward, Valkyrie is a suspenseful yet ennobling story about the last attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler prior to the end of World War II. Tom Cruise is effective if a little opaque as hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who channels his anger at Hitler's atrocities and mismanagement of the war by joining a secret organization bent on killing the F?hrer. When the outspoken Stauffenberg hits on the idea of linking Hitler's death with an official policy to safeguard Berlin during a government crisis--a contingency plan called "Valkyrie"--the group realizes a post-assassination coup could be covered by rapidly implementing the plan. History tells us the plot failed, of course, and Hitler killed himself months later. But that doesn't stop Cruise or director Bryan Singer from approaching the film as a thinking person's thriller, told from inside the conspirators' camp, where the outcome of their deeds were uncertain for several tense hours.

In the tradition of The Great Escape, Valkyrie is a war movie full of famous faces, including Kenneth Branagh, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard. (The lesser-known David Bamber is very good as Hitler, hunched and cracking under pressure.) The film's gravity is offset a bit by the fun of seeing all these actors in a factually-based slice of history, and by a few, interesting stylistic flourishes on Singer's part, including the peculiarly unsettling image of a mosquito sizzled to death in close-up. --Tom Keogh

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