August 05, 2009 at 6:48 PM, T.K said ...

Loethlin, it wouldn't have made a difference if they'd invited a WWII geek, this movie was historically inaccurate. They took a lot of liberties with this movie. Like the execution scene was completely wrong. Cruise's character was hung by piano wire.... On the other hand, I thought Cruise's stoicness was good for this movie. And the movie was fun, a little long, but fun. I'd say low Matinee.

May 10, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Loethlin said ...

Ok, guys. With all due respect... (yea, it's thats bad in my opinion) You invite chicks to review chick flicks with you. You should've invite a WWII geek to review this movie with you. i mean, come on! It's a movie based on a true story, happening during WWII. This is so OBVIOUSLY a movie targeted at specific type of audience, you don't have to even THINK to realise it. Come on. Just like chick flicks. Diffrerent audience, but same principle. Valkyrie was historically accurate, as far as we can tell right now, and also had some great actors to assume the roles of important people of that time. and they did their job, played very well. Even the nutjob Tom Cruise. I'm sorry. He's one screwed up person, but is good at what he does for living. For me, this was a Full Price movie, because of what it was SUPPOSED to be. A geeky movie for WWII geeks, like me! Also, if you didn't invite any expert to review this movie with you, you fail. Big time.

January 22, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Shawman1 said ...

Though I know people will hate me for saying this, I'm actually a fan of Tom Cruise. Despite his weirdness, he's actually and exceptional actor, and to think with him and his amazing supporting cast not speaking with a single believable accent is UNFORGIVEABLE! I'm with the crew here, I couldn't get passed the multicultural nazis to really even enjoy the story. I would have to give it a rental tops.

January 13, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Juan Jose Vampires said ...

If he doesnt speak with a German accent, then is depiction of von Stauffenberg isnt acceptable. Its not good enough just to "look" like the character. The film is a great story, but the actors let it down. Tom Cruise is a great actor, but his performance just wasnt good enough in this film.

January 11, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Alex S said ...

interesting thing is, germany and austria already made a movie about stauffenberg, which is known to be very accurate and very well made. The actors were very unknown but played excellent. So why remake it with some bored actors. low rental

January 07, 2009 at 8:44 PM, I see every Movie out. said ...

I actually really enjoyed this movie. I thought it was very well put togeather, if you take out all the accent bullshit, i thought it was great.

January 06, 2009 at 10:28 AM, David said ...

Did Connery or Curry have Russian accents in The Hunt for Red October? We as the audience understand that they're really speaking German, and that the English is just there for our (the English-speaking audience's) benefit. So why does it matter that they didn't have German accents as they spoke ENGLISH?

January 06, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Rich said ...

New rule: No references to Hitler and rappers shall appear together in any future Spill review. The results are just too weird. I also never thought I would see a dancing cat in relation to Hitler either. This review is now pure Godwin's Law. Wow, someone actually beat me to the Hitler rap video (the Whitest one)

January 05, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Anita Benner said ...

I went to see this movie because my husband has just 3 degrees of separation between he and Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise's character) and 4 degrees of separation to Tom Cruise. Perhaps because of that fact I liked it more than I would have otherwise (the accents were very annoying), but here's what I know: of the many assasination attempts on Hitler's life, Valkyrie was the most famous because it was the most elaborately planned, and because it was driven by Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise's character) who was a famously wealthy aristocrat of noble title whose family had - and continues to have - the same prestige in Europe as the Kennedy's have in the US. I guess it's one thing for a poor and desperate individual to attempt to kill Hitler - but when someone rich and powerful gives it a shot, that's worth Tom Cruise's time in making a movie out of. Ironically, the guy was no saint - he thought having Polish slaves was perfectly acceptable - but fortunately he had the clarity to get uncomfortable when they started routinely executing them by the millions. I guess that just proves that people are complex and no one - no matter how heroic - is without flaws. Phew! Now we can all sleep better at night!

January 04, 2009 at 4:43 AM, GreyFox785 said ...

Aw, I was really pulling for the Captain K'nuckles joke from the Audio Commentary. Oh well, I didn't expect this to be too good, just because you throw on a wig and do a funny dance doesn't mean you can instantly jump back in the game, that takes skill that Tom just doesn't have as an actor.

January 03, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Stefiebunni said ...

''Hitler should've hung with Tupac'' I know thats right!lmao i love this review,and i hear this movie sucks ..-_-i'll have to see for myself

January 02, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Travis Pickle said ...

Sounds like I thought! You get that class of cast who can ALL do a german inflection to their voices and you just have them all be themselves!? fuck that!!!