Valkyrie

Gary Cogill's review

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Valkyrie is an average-at-best film based on a true story. Tom Cruise stars as a high-ranking German officer in World War II who is part of a secret plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

It's all terribly serious, but instead of filling the theatre with authenticity, it fills the screen with British and American accents.

As a movie, Valkryie does have a few good moments, but overall it's lacking the fireworks and inside information needed to work.

It often feels like the Cliffs Notes' version of the real thing — streamlined to a fault and not as intense as it pretends to be.

Valkyrie is directed with a heavy hand by Bryan Singer, who also directed X-Men and The Usual Suspects. Singer's actors are fine, but his script seems paint-by-numbers, resulting in a movie that appears to be overly simplified and well over the director's head.

Valkyrie is rated PG-13 and only pretends to be high-powered holiday entertainment.

The more I think about this film the worse it gets, meaning the real story is much more interesting than the film.

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