mediocre at best

Rating: 1/10 (13 December 2012)

This movie was truly awful.
The pacing was slow; so much so I went and did the dishes at one stage.
The choice for the actors - some of them very fine indeed - to not don German accents (or at least a more uniform set of accents) - was an odd and off-putting one indeed.
Cruise's performance was per functionary and emotionless, and although the movie tried to give a sense of the motivations and meanings of the historical characters it failed miserably. I get that the directors wanted to leave some ambiguity there - after all who truly knows what drives a person to a particular act? But the ambiguity led to the film being nothing more than a series of events with no depth or insight. Poor directing.
Don't bother with it - read the historical accounts instead.