Daily Plastic: Valkyrie

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Valkyrie Trailer . IMDB	Unfortunately, that's all Valkyrie is, Tom Cruise as yet another Top Gun fighter pilot come to save the world. Indeed, he seems almost irritated that he has to share the glory with anyone else. J. Robert Parks Daily Plastic	Alas, incongruous vocal intonations aren't even the most significant problem plaguing Singer's film, what with Cruise—missing a hand and saddled with an eye patch, making him seem like a National Socialist pirate—apparently engaged in a contest against himself (and cinematic history) to see how long he can hold the same, intensely resolute expression, and the answer unfortunately turning out to be 120 minutes. Nick Schager Slant but it sometimes works because... Once Singer dispenses with the introductory pathos and gets to the nuts and bolts of Stauffenberg's plan, Valkyrie becomes an admirably modest and compact suspense thriller. Dana Stevens Slate It's a procedural, often absorbing, rarely surprising, about a briefcase bomb and a near-miss. Yet there's no question the film feels dodgy and vague when it comes to the personalities and ideology of the men onscreen. Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune

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