pretty good; lose the British accents in the German actors; plodding at times

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 2009)

If Hugh Laurie can do a weekly TV series without a British accent, these people could have done a movie without accents. Either get rid of the British ones or fake a German one. Those are better alternatives to listening to a room full of German officers speaking to people with British accents and wondering "why are these Brits helping the Germans to plot to kill Hitler?" The producers go to all the time and trouble and expense to recreate an atmosphere of Germany in the 40s and then they cast people who have the inability to make themselves seem like Germans? There weren't any English-speaking Germans for the parts? No Americans? No British who can lose their accents or speak with a German one? It bothered me for the entire film, so I don't agree with the 10-star reviewer who says it's a niggling complaint. At times it was very tense, and others it just seemed slow. Kind of strange, but that's how it came across. And why a room full of men couldn't have just smuggled in some weapons and shot the guy instead of a briefcase with an ineffective bomb? They ended up getting shot after all so why not just a suicide bomb or open fire on the guy?