Valkyrie PG-13
Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 19, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: United Artists
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson & Terence Stamp | |
Performer: | Carice van Houten, Kevin McNally & Eddie Izzard | |
Directed by | Bryan Singer | |
Edited by | John Ottman | |
Screenwriting by | Nathan Alexander & Christopher McQuarrie | |
Composition by | John Ottman | |
Produced by | Christopher McQuarrie & Gilbert Adler | |
Director of Photography: | Newton Thomas Sigel |
Entertainment Reviews:
If there's one thing Cruise knows how to portray, it's robotic single-mindedness.
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East Bay Express
3 stars out of 4 -- VALKYRIE is a meticulous thriller....The two best supporting performances are by Kenneth Branagh...and Tom Wilkinson, as a general who artfully plays both sides of the fence...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
A historically respectful, morally careful film.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Counterbalancing the energy vacuum that is Cruise is the good news that this is also a Bryan Singer movie.
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Movies.com
Rating: 2/5 --
Director Bryan Singer has put together a fairly workable, old-fashioned second world war movie.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
If you can leave you incredulity at the door, however, Valkyrie isn't all bad. The large ensemble cast are excellent, even if they are speaking in a variety of accents.
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Roll Credits
Cruise manages his part respectably, with a combination of ramrod posture, starched costumes and minimalist acting....VALKYRIE is a brutally efficient bit of storytelling...
Washington Post
Product Description:
Based on a the true story of cadre of Nazi officers who grew to oppose Hitler's murderous pursuits and made several attempts to kill him in the late stages of WWII, VALKYRIE features a top-flight cast, with drama and suspense in equal measure. The film is a stylistic departure for director Bryan Singer (X-MEN, X2) and star Tom Cruise, with a screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (THE USUAL SUSPECTS) and Nathan Alexander that is constructed like a heist film, with a team of like-minded men coming together for a common purpose and facing incredible odds. It is 1943, and though he has come to be disgusted by Hitler's campaign of evil, Count Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) has risen to the level of lieutenant colonel in the German army. Convinced that Hitler must die, Von Stauffenberg requests a transfer to Tunisia, where he loses his left eye and right hand during an Allied air raid. Falling in with a group of similarly disillusioned officers including Major General Henning von Tresckow (Kenneth Branagh), General Friedrich Olbricht (Bill Nighy), General Friedrich Fromm (Tom Wilkinson), and Colonel General Ludwig Beck (Terence Stamp), Stauffenberg is at the center of several attempts on Der Fuhrer's life, culminating in a bombing that kills a handful of his officers and leaves Hitler only slightly injured.
Though advance photos of Cruise in Nazi uniform brought VALKYRIE negative publicity, his restrained performance is at the heart of this well-crafted, thinking person's action movie. He is bolstered by an incredible British cast including Branagh, Stamp, and Wilkinson, and by the film's dazzling art direction. Though it's a story to which viewers should already know the ending, Singer still creates ample suspense. The result is a taut and effective historical thriller.
Though advance photos of Cruise in Nazi uniform brought VALKYRIE negative publicity, his restrained performance is at the heart of this well-crafted, thinking person's action movie. He is bolstered by an incredible British cast including Branagh, Stamp, and Wilkinson, and by the film's dazzling art direction. Though it's a story to which viewers should already know the ending, Singer still creates ample suspense. The result is a taut and effective historical thriller.
Product Description:
“Tom Cruise gives one of the best performances of his career” (Jeffrey Lyons, NBC/Reel Talk) in this action-packed film from the director of The Usual Suspects and X-Men. Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolph Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Co-starring Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp and Eddie Izzard, Valkyrie delivers gripping suspense and pulse-pounding excitement from start to finish!
Keywords:
Suspense
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Thriller
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World War II
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History
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Assassination
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Nazis
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Theatrical Release
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Germany
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Hitler
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Assassins
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Nazi Germany
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