'Valkyrie' review

Pinky girl from London - January 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM

We enjoyed it! The 1940s sets were brilliant and the plot gripping. We did feel a bit that they're were going to change history and let Tom Cruise win though !!

Jaime Elizabeth Saul from Corona del Mar - January 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM

My dad is the cheapest man alive, so we saw Valkyrie after Slumdog Millionaire...you know, the whole "two for the price of one deal?!?" Don't do this if you want to have any kind of appreciate for Valkyrie at all. Following Slumdog, are you kidding me?!? I can't get excited about seeing Tom Cruise sad, Tom Cruise worried, Tom Cruise confident, Tom Cruise blah after seeing a movie as powerful, well-written, creative, unpredictable, brilliantly acted as Slumdog Millionaire. Honestly, if you have $10 to spend don't bother with the Tom Cruise big blockbuster movie. Spend your money seeing Slumdog Millionaire. You will be moved. You will be riveted to the screen. Valkyrie: same old Hollywood big expense big actor big ticket stay safe nothing new movie. Tom Cruise is over, there, I said it. Retire with your billions and live with "Kate and Suri" in Telluride and thank the gods you had the Mission Impossible series. Leave acting to the actors...

moviehound from chicago burbs - January 04, 2009 at 6:06 PM

A good, fresh perspective to a familiar historical event. Cruise does a good job, ignore the typical anti-Cruise critic. Humanizing the Germans instead of making them the stereotypical goosestepping, faceless bad guys is well done. It doesn't excuse the Nazi's (al751, take note), it points out that there were numerous objectors to the inhumane SS treatments of enemy combatants. The 20 attempts on Hitlers life did not occur only in the last year of the war (and Stalin was just as brutal, if not more so).

moviesrule from South Side - January 03, 2009 at 10:10 PM

Tom Cruise is awesome!! Leave him alone and enjoy his films!

KailuaGrl from kailua - January 03, 2009 at 8:36 PM

The movie was good, not great. None of the actors, including Tom Cruise and Bill Nighy, disappeared in their roles. But even though you know the outcome going in, it did a good job of building suspense.

Jemimah from North Shore and beyond - December 31, 2008 at 6:04 PM

To al751 - You clearly have a one-sided knowledge and a myopic view of the situation in Germany at the time. Maybe you should expand your mind and read some more on the subject or interview some German civilian survivors of the era. If we want to talk about mass slaughter of civilians, etc. we can talk at length about the Soviet military. I'm ready to listen to you if you want to critic the movie but you don't have a true grip on historical facts and therefore have no right to your criticisms of people or events.

al751 from New Castle - December 27, 2008 at 5:18 AM

I have a problem with the whole concept that there where any "heroes" in the Wermacht in 1944. It's an army that more or less loyally supported Hitler for 9 years, including mass slaughter of Polish,Russian and Ukrainian civilians (i.e. sub-human 'slavs') by regular army units. The army as a whole pledged "undying loyalty" to Hitler in 1933. Okay, after Stalingrad, and after d-day, with the eastern front collapsing and defeat certain, a few generals decide to kill Hitler. That's a case of rats trying to claw their way off a sinking ship, not heroism.