Valkyrie (2008)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 193
Fresh: 119 | Rotten: 74
Given the subject matter, Valkyrie could have been an outstanding historical thriller, but settles for being a mildly entertaining, but disposable yarn.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 18
Given the subject matter, Valkyrie could have been an outstanding historical thriller, but settles for being a mildly entertaining, but disposable yarn.
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At the absolute height of World War II, German generals hatch a daring plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler and effectively render the German war machine impotent. Directed by Bryan Singer, Valkyrie stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, the real-life mastermind behind the elaborate plot known as Project Valkyrie: a plan to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government from the inside. Stauffenberg has been a loyal soldier and an asset to the Reich for his entire military career, but
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Cast
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Tom Cruise
Col. Claus von Stauffen... -
Kenneth Branagh
Major-Gen. Henning von ... -
Bill Nighy
Gen. Friedrich Olbricht -
Tom Wilkinson
Gen. Friedrich Fromm -
Carice van Houten
Nina Von Stauffenberg -
Thomas Kretschmann
Maj. Otto Ernst Remer -
Terence Stamp
Gen. Ludwig Beck -
Eddie Izzard
Gen. Erich Fellgiebel -
Kevin McNally
Dr. Carl Goerdeler -
Christian Berkel
Col. Mertz von Quirnhei... -
Jamie Parker
Lt. Werner von Haeften -
David Bamber
Adolf Hitler -
Tom Hollander
Col. Heinz Brandt -
David Schofield
Erwin von Witzleben -
Kenneth Cranham
Field Marshal Wilhelm K... -
Halina Reijn
Margarethe von Oven -
Werner Daehn
Maj. Ernst John von Fre... -
Harvey Friedman
Dr. Joseph Goebbels -
Matthias Schweighöfer
Lt. Herber -
Waldemar Kobus
Police Chief Wolf-Heinr... -
Florian Panzner
Second Lt. Hagen -
Ian McNeice
Pompous General -
Danny Webb
Captain Haans -
Chris Larkin
Sgt. Helm -
Matthew Burton
Lt. General Adolf Heusi... -
Philipp von Schulthess
Tresckow's Aide -
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Sgt. Kolbe -
Christian Oliver
Sgt. Major Adam -
Bernard Hill
Confident General - Des... -
Julian Morris
Young Lieutenant - Dese... -
Helmut Stauss
Dr. Roland Freisler -
Tim Williams
Doctor -
Anton Algrang
Albert Speer -
Matthias Freihof
ReichsfĂźhrer Heinrich ... -
Gerard Haase-Hindenberg
Reich Marshal Hermann G... -
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All Critics (194) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (123) | Rotten (75) | DVD (10)
Valkyrie, as field-commanded by director Bryan Singer, succeeds on its own terms as a handsome hybrid of conspiracy thriller and history lesson, of Mission: Impossible and The Day of the Jackal.
Top CriticAs old-fashioned historical escapism goes, this is solid, compelling stuff.
Surely there is some middle ground between a history lesson and mindless action-adventure. The people who made Valkyrie not only didn't find that ground; they weren't even looking for it.
It is a well-made film that raises timeless questions about the demands of military duty when they are placed in conflict with higher principles.
What if this lesser-known chapter of German resistance had been more deeply captured? What if the moral conflicts running through this movie about love of country and revolt said more about Germany, war and, yes, genocide?
Singer keeps the conspiracy racing to its fated conclusion.
While capable of generating suspense and tension, Valkyrie is sadly less than the sum of its parts.
Valkyrie isn't a classic war movie by any means, but is it the total laughing stock many feared? Nein.
If there's one thing Cruise knows how to portray, it's robotic single-mindedness.
Counterbalancing the energy vacuum that is Cruise is the good news that this is also a Bryan Singer movie.
As both a World War II film and a conspiracy story Valkyrie largely succeeds. No one part may stand above its fellows (not to mention other films) but what it adds up to is more than worthwhile and you may find yourself pleasantly surprised.
Cruise, Singer, lose the credibility battle.
El Caso de Valquiria como cinta es muy interesante pues a pesar de que todos sabemos el desenlace, la realización logra mantenernos pegados a la butaca pidiendo de forma imposible que el complot funcione y dejándonos al final con un montón de "Y si%u2026"
the action is traded for suspense in the movie, which is when things really click
Singer can only touch on the surface of each development. It would help if we could see the failure reflected in von Stauffenberg's one good eye, but Cruise, alas, can offer little help. He's just Tom Cruise in an eyepatch.
Maintaining tension in the face of a foregone conclusion is no mean trick, but Mr. Singer and company do as well as anyone could hope.
It's never a pretty sight when a limited performer tries to "stretch" by way of cosmetics
[Cruise] looks about as German as Jackie Chan would in a lederhosen.
It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity.
Earnest and understated movie about the General's plot against Hitler. Despite Cruise's reputation for derring-do characters, this is a very human German colonel that he plays.
[A] pleasing throwback to 1970s war-intrigue pictures. [Blu-ray]
...finally can't help but come off as something of a minor disappointment...
Audience Reviews for Valkyrie
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- Erwin von Witzleben: You may hand us over to the executioner, but in three months time, the disgusted and harried people will bring you to book and drag you alive through the dirt in the streets.
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- Gen. Friedrich Olbricht: We've been discovered.
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- Gen. Friedrich Fromm: Do you realise what you've done?! The Fuhrer is alive!
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- Col. Heinz Brandt: Well you've come a long way, you must be.. thirsty?
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- Pompous General: The Fuhrer is not dead!
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- Major-Gen. Henning von Tresckow: We have to show the world, that not all of us were like him.
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Foreign Titles
- Operation Walküre - Das Stauffenberg Attentat (DE)
- Walkyrie (FR)
