Valkyrie (2008)

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.

September 7, 2011 Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

As old-fashioned historical escapism goes, this is solid, compelling stuff.

January 23, 2009 Full Review

Tom Huddlestone

Time Out

Top Critic

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.

January 5, 2009 Full Review

Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

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.

December 30, 2008 Full Review

Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

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?

December 30, 2008 Full Review | Comments (4)

Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

Top Critic

Singer keeps the conspiracy racing to its fated conclusion.

December 30, 2008 Full Review

Tom Maurstad

Dallas Morning News

Top Critic

While capable of generating suspense and tension, Valkyrie is sadly less than the sum of its parts.

December 17, 2012 Full Review

Stephen Carty

Flix Capacitor

Valkyrie isn't a classic war movie by any means, but is it the total laughing stock many feared? Nein.

September 29, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

If there's one thing Cruise knows how to portray, it's robotic single-mindedness.

August 16, 2011 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

Counterbalancing the energy vacuum that is Cruise is the good news that this is also a Bryan Singer movie.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

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.

March 10, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Cruise, Singer, lose the credibility battle.

December 31, 2010 Full Review

Don Groves

sbs.com.au

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"

March 11, 2010 Full Review

Luis Martinez

Cinenganos

the action is traded for suspense in the movie, which is when things really click

January 9, 2010 Full Review

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

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.

December 24, 2009 Full Review

Matt Soergel

Florida Times-Union

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.

August 30, 2009 Full Review

Sonny Bunch

Washington Times

It's never a pretty sight when a limited performer tries to "stretch" by way of cosmetics

August 26, 2009 Full Review

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

[Cruise] looks about as German as Jackie Chan would in a lederhosen.

August 1, 2009 Full Review

Anders Wotzke

Moviedex

It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity.

July 29, 2009 Full Review

Walter Chaw

Film Freak Central

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.

July 13, 2009 Full Review

Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

[A] pleasing throwback to 1970s war-intrigue pictures. [Blu-ray]

June 19, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

...finally can't help but come off as something of a minor disappointment...

June 16, 2009 Full Review

David Nusair

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