Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition)
| Valkyrie (Single-Disc Edition) |
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 Rating:  - YAWN!Honestly, I could not stay awake; and, I tried to watch it twice! Boring... Rating: - Gripping film, but -Plays into the stereotype - not to see whitewash - of the "good" German Army vs. "the bad" Hitler/SS/Nazi Party. Colonel von Stauffenberg's motives may have been personally the highest, but the attempt to drape the whole German Army in the rightousness of his protest goes too far. The Wehrmacht's role in war crimes is too well-documented. The motive for most of the plotters (and the film does allude to this) were to scrape Germany's wartorn nuts out of the fire by assassinating Hitler, make peace with the Western Alles, and prevent the occupation of Germany, repeating the successful diplomacy of WW I. No doubt the outcome for Germany would have been happier if the plot had succeeded. Cruise does an excellent job portraying the Colonel, and even bears a striking physical resemblance to the real man. A lot was crammed into two hours of film, which might make it uneven and perhaps confusing for those unfamiliar with the story. This is compensated by its swift to-the-bone pace, making for a gripping film that is best watched complete from beginning to end. The reconstruction of period detail is impeccable throughout. A revealing afternote to the story: Wehrmacht war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg were released from American custody at the insistence of Federal Chancellor Adenauer in 1955, to gain the officer corps' cooperation in forming the new NATO-led Bundeswehr. This included their amnesty and complete rehabilitation. Many of these officers returned to active duty, justifying their wartime deeds with highly revisionist accounts of Germany's wartime "struggle" and "sacrifice," while draping themselves in the mantle of von Stauffenberg's attempted redemption. Fortunately for the modern Bundeswehr that he was executed, as he would have doubtless taken aim next at its self-serving mythology. Ironic, too, that this story of an act of terror is released and receiving highly-deserved acclaim during a self-described "War on Terror." Apparently there is "good" terror and "bad" terror, like "good" soldiers and "bad." Rating:  - Ok Moviethe movie was ok if you like war movies....though it's not about fighting in the field...not one of Cruise's best performances..but worth a view anyway Rating:  - Valkyrie [Blu-ray]The Valkyrie started off with Tom Cruise showing the dilemma of an officer with total dedication to Hitler's Germany and his own personal conscious, knowing Hitler's plan to destroy all Jews, gays and gypsies. In the documentary of this courageous man, it shows that he witnessed people being shot over a ditch so it would be easier to bury them. This is why the officer elected to kill Hitler and put an end to the war. Valkyrie was to code name of a group of high ranking officers who formed the plot to replace Hitler and his regime. The plot of the movie centered on the magnificent Germany war machine that not only plotted the death of all leading officers, but their conspiracy to replace the German government head within 4 short hours. This movie eliminated the brutality of the concentration camps and replaced with suspense. Rating: - Pretty Good MovieI wouldn't go see this in the theater because I just couldnt get past watching Tom Cruise play a German surrounded by all these other people with British accents. I decided to rent the movie on Amazon and it was worth the money. After you get past the early parts of the movie you completely forget about Tom Cruise and his American accent. When they set the bomb off to kill Hitler you really start to move to the edge of your seat and the movie has a great supporting cast of actors. You don't realize how close they came to actually assassinating Hitler until you watch this. 
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