I knew about this real story two decades before the film was made so I knew a lot going in and was dreading in the back of my mind what they would "alter" for the movie and or to suit Mr. Cruise's ego and team of image consultants that he has employed since the start of his career in the early 1980's. Yes ladies he's "that" old. But I must say it was done very historically correct and yes Mr. Cruise fit himself in the real life character of Stauffenberg rather than "tweek" and leave out stuff, character wise for him to still pull off the movie star image he loves to protect and cultivate. Did I see "cult" in that last word...hum?
Any-who, this is one of the best interpretations of that event of July 20th 1944 that tried to kill Adolf Hitler and end World War 2 in the European theatre of war then and there. Many other films have included this day of attempted assassination since the 1950's and many have handled it very well. But this is the whole story, well most of the story, of that day and nights events that can be squeezed into a 2 hour film.
Review of Valkyrie
