Better than I thought it was going to be...

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2009)

Great story and the acting was surprisingly good by all parties involved - Cruise included. I always want to hate this guy but he seems to always convince me otherwise in his movies.
No doubt this movie would have been Academy material had they used German actors speaking German the whole time (something akin to Das Boot). As it is, we have an American in the lead role surrounded by a bunch of Englishmen playing Germans. Even Adolph Hitler has a British accent(!). Not a bad movie at all though - you feel for the guys involved in this complicated plot and know that they did more for Germany than anyone under the Reich flag did in the end.
Worth a viewing as there is plenty of suspense and drama for most. It also tells another side of Nazi Germany that most people never think about - that some Germans DID think that Hitler was crazy and were brave enough to stop him - at least fifteen such times by the movie's count.