Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)
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Actor: Kenneth Branagh, Tom CruiseBrand: 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
Movie Reviews of Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)
Movie 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.
Summary of Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/19/2009 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: Pg13Unpretentious 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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