good effort

Rating: 7/10 (29 July 2010)

The story is fascinating and you feel the genuine frustration at the end - if they were all going to die why didn't one of them just shoot Hitler himself? Tom is better than usual - he avoids the million dollar smile. He still is a little bit all American but at least he didn't try to fake a German accent - that would have been a disaster.
Kenneth Branagh has been playing a lot of Nazis but I don't think he is very convincing - he doesn't have an evil look. He is more like a milkman or a baker. Other supporting cast members are better.
There was an earlier Brad Davis version which isn't as good as this called the Plot to Kill Hitler if you want to compare.