Tom Cruise in an eyepatch was enough to dissuade me from watching this for many months. And rightly so. This movie, I suspect, was scripted in a way that would maximize the anxiety and nervous jitter to give even the most boring scenes an edge of fear. Whenever you see Hitler on the screen, the music gets super dramatic. Even as the Fuhrer picks up his pen and signs his paperwork, Tom Cruise glances around nervously as if Hilter himself was about to slap him in the face.
Having been horribly maimed and growing tired of Hilter's Germany, eyepatch Tom Cruise attempts a coup in hopes of ending the war. He is a resourceful leader and a soldier of principle, but also a dull and unremarkable actor. As operation Valkyrie comes to it's decisive conclusion, he yells, "LONG LIVE SACRED GERMANY". teehee!
The last act is the most redeeming part of the movie. It's 1944, fast approaching the final days of the Nazi supreme court. An old man is being charged with treason, and as he is taken away, he screams that all of them will have to face justice in the end. Nuremberg is just a few steps away.
I love movies about Nazis.
Rating: 50%
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