Valkyrie
Honestly, when I first heard about Valkyrie, I just assumed it was another fictional plot movie about people killing Hitler. But this time, the accents don’t exist, and Tom Cruise wears an eye patch!
AN EYE PATCH GUYS! What! Pirates up in this place, killing Hitler and the Nazis. Sounds wundebar.
Oh, it was a real thing and failed attempt to kill Hitler? Oh okay. My bad, history.
I hope you will accept this crooked hat as a proper assurance of my badness.
Let me tell you know. They don’t succeed in killing Hitler. But you knew that. Hitler killed himself near the end of the war. Not via a plot of some German soldiers!
Movie begins with Tom Cruise looking normal. But thanks to an air strike, he loses an eye and his right hand.
Operation Valkyrie is a plan set in place involving using the reserve army to maintain order during a national emergency. They realize that if they can activate it, it might be a way to pull off a coop and get rid of the Nazi regime in Germany. But the only guy who can pull the button, won’t do a thing with Hitler still alive.
Alright, simple enough, kill Hitler, pull off the operation, end the war from the inside out. Boom!
Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, and Tom Wilkinson are some of the officers involved in doing this stuff. Character names are hard, because they are all german and stuff. Except for Tom Cruise. He is supposed to be German, but talks like Tom Cruise.
A lot of the film is planning and setting up. Because a lot of time was spent in real life too. They do succeed in pulling off Operation Valkyrie, but did they successfully kill off Hitler? Nope. Of course not. So their plan probably won’t work. And it might mean pretty bad things.
Like giving up their rare trading cards!
Movie was a lot better than I imagined. Actually bought this thing about a year ago but just…continued to never watch it. Gotta love that.
I wasn’t bugged by accents of course, but that was a big complaint people had years ago. The attempt was interesting, but not as straightforward as I would have liked. Or as action-y. Not sure why they devoted a whole movie to an act of failure. Successes must be running low, eh?
It was slow at times too, so I think they could have probably cut a lot of the movie out and still told the story correctly. It would have made it a better experience overall for me, at least.
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Another movie watcher saw this film, would agree with the rating, but disagreed with most things I said. So here is another quick review:
“Well for instance I found the movie to be quite fast paced and not very complicated. In fact they simplified the history of the planning of the plot a lot because in real life they considered and rejected and modified so many plans that no one would be able to follow in a movie. The real strength of the movie was how they managed to make you think that they just might pull it off, even though you know they won’t.
But the real downside of the movie is that it doesn’t give us much of a reason to care about any of this, because none of the characters have any depth. All we know is that they are somehow *good* because they are fighting Nazis and Nazis are *bad*. We aren’t given any reason for why these people want to kill Hitler other than that Hitler was bad…I mean, that goes without saying but there were thousands of other German officers that DIDN’T try to kill Hitler so that’s not really an explanation. What I mean is, you don’t see any of Hitler’s crimes or anything like that in the movie, you just see guys that all of a sudden decide to kill Hitler for very few stated reasons. In real life Colonel Stauffenberg was super Catholic and this was a big reason why he decided to fight Hitler, but the movie doesn’t touch on that at all, so we’re just left with people risking their lives for no clear purpose. Which makes the movie rather exciting but pretty empty, IMO.”