Good movie, despite the bad reviews.

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2008)

Bad reviews and a slight amount of stiff acting by Cruise notwithstanding , Valkyrie is a great, historically-accurate movie.
With the exception of a single, short scene, Cruise's acting was decent to very good. All the other actors besides Cruise gave superb performances.
The lack of German accents/German itself, and the substitution of the actor's natural accents instead, detracted nothing from the film; if anything, it made it a little easier to watch and follow, and more accessible for viewers who may not know the whole story behind Stauffenberg and the July 20th bomb plot.
In summary, Valkyrie is a movie worth seeing, about a great and principled man who believed in serving God and his country over a crazed madman and the Nazi regime.
8 stars out of 10.