With a more intelligent and rigid plot, Valkyrie which opened in theaters across the world this past December could have been much more interesting and stimulating rather than merely sporadically gripping, ultimately making it a stale film.
Even before it was in theaters, Valkyrie has its work cut out to portray Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg, a German war hero and aristocrat (even without a German accent), who becomes astounded by Hitler's Germany enough, that he is willing to kill the Adolf Hitler himself. If you can believe this presentation, then what follows is a film that is intense and a thriller. If not, then you are in for 120 minutes of an unplanned comedy and time you won’t ever get back.
Valkyrie is a tale of Colonel Von Stauffenberg and others within the SS and their failed attempt on Hitler's life in July 1945. Von Stauffenberg proposes assassinating Hitler and then using this reserve army to arrest the SS and institute a new government that demonstrates better use of it’s country.
The plot does have some uphill excitement with the film starting off with a bombing blast in a desert in Africa, however fails throughout with uncanny background melodies that leads you to think there is action just around the corner, when really there isn’t.
Valkyrie's technique is commendable but forgets the mark of emotion and excitement for the viewer. Your brain that wants only historical scenes rather then action ones will be hooked, other than that it is nothing but a time waster and something that could have aired on the History Channel.
Click here to find local theaters that still have Valkyrie playing before it hits shelves in DVD later this spring, though it should have hit sheleves to begin with.
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