Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer. Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard co-star in this drama based on actual events. Directed by Bryan Singer (Apt Pupil, Superman Returns).
Matt
Rating: 6 out of 10
The core of the story is a great one: German soldiers who rebel against Hitler’s tyrannical leadership that lead to the holocaust and WWII by attempting to kill him and form a new government.
It’s all based on a true story, and it’s one that is celebrated every year in Germany with a memorial as a testament to those who rebelled against Hitler. There are some great elements to the movie, too, which embraces the spririt of the original story and pays respect to their cause and character.
There are some thrilling action sequences and intense moments as the attempt to assassinate Hitler unfolds and we truly root for the main characters, despite knowing how it all turns out. The only thing that drags this film down is all the main characters are German, yet they have a mixed bag of American, English, German and Scottish accents. It doesn’t feel like you’re watching Germans — and this is a very patriotic film for Germans. Tom Cruise is as American as pork rinds and I never lost site of that. It was sort of silly to have only one German actor in the film and no German spoken, which doesn’t help build the believability in the movie. It’s an enjoyable action/adventure movie, just don’t expect “Inglorious Basterds.”
The Movie Brothers 
Really a great patriotic thriller with a great star cast like Tom sawyer, Bill Nighy. I have seen the movie and it is really engrossing from start to finish. Tom sawyer’s portrayal of Stauffenberg is appreciating. I loved this post. Good article.
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Prashant Badiger
My beef with the film is that is makes the conspirators out to be rather too heroic. They didn’t seem to have a problem with Hitler when he was winning. It wasn’t the murder of Jews and other so-called undesirables that caused them to rebel, it was the realization that Germany would lose the war with Hitler in power that did it.
This movie was a lot better than I thought it would be. Bryan Singer and Tom Cruise both have a tendency to get in there own way, that’s not the problem here. As good as it was, when it was over, I just felt a much better movie could have been made.
Solid review.
I agree that a better movie could have been made. It was slightly above average. I think Bill’s comment above is pretty spot on, too.