Not bad but only historical interesting

Rating: 6/10 (31 January 2010)

This movie is based on true events and in my opinion that is its downfall. I'm an historical noob, but if you know that this movie is about an assassination attempt on Hitler, even noobs like me know the outcome of that. And that made the film less exciting, for me anyways. Since I'm an historical noob, I must admit I never heard of this episode of the war, so for "educational purposes" I found the movie interesting. But the rest of the movie wasn't bad, but there were too many characters and too many locations involved. Because of the many characters and many locations you never get any affectionous feelings for any of the characters (positive or negative).
It surely will be historical accurate, it isn't an "re-write by Hollywood" like U-571 - liked it way more then Valkyrie -, but the way it's told (or shown actually) is like a chapter in a history book and it's like chapters like these what have made me an historical noob ;).
As i summarize it; Not bad (not good either), but only historical interesting.