A good, intellectual effort

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2008)

7/10 So what if I think Cruise is a wacko for his Scientologist ways? This movie proved to be a very smart, high-tension thriller from beginning to end. Cruise did a nice job as Stauffenberg, the crippled colonel who finds himself in the middle of a plot to kill the Fuhrer. The other supporting actors are also good, although I think some German accents would have done wonders for the realism effect.
The last half of the movie is pure suspense. I had the misfortune of sitting next to some goon who insisted on narrating the whole film... if that guy never existed, I think I would have enjoyed Valkyrie a lot more. Nonetheless, this is a good movie to take a trip back 70 years and see a different side of the National Socialist Party. It's funny, I assumed all this time that EVERY Nazi thought the same way; I never thought that there could be opponents within the regime that were simply scared into following. This is their story... enjoy!