3.5/4  Entertaining History Lesson!!
Yes, Tom Cruise is a bizarre choice to portray a one-handed, eye-patch-wearing dissenting Colonel in Hitler's army, but if he can be a vampire, a samurai, and a balding movie producer, why not a German officer? After a clever transition fr... (read full)

3/4  Smooth Hollywood thriller
An overwrought, but acceptable version of the plot that failed to kill Hitler; Cruise blends in nicely to his character and there's some genuine suspense to be found, despite knowing the outcome. What helps is the meticulous location sho... (read full)

1.5/4  Valkyrie
Didn't like this at all. Maybe there was a scene or two i found interesting but this is by far Bryan Singers worst film. And that includes Apt Pupil.

And Tom Cruise is an actor i really admire, but the plotting and the clunky dialogue ... (read full)

3.5/4  ff
i thougt this movie was actually cuite good i expected a bad movie but i was pleasently surprised it was fun to see a good movie that dindn't bore me i think cruise should of got an oscar nominatioj,n or at least next year he should ... (read full)

2.5/4  Thriller with a cause
I’m really left baffled about this one because I didn't quite feel the story enough. Performances were definitely strong but I guess I wasn't really into it more than I liked to. Tom Cruise did what he could for the role and succeeded in h... (read full)

3.5/4  Good story makes up for other problems.
A surprisingly effective war thriller that I liked a whole lot more than other people. Many of them really giving Tom Cruise a bit too hard of the time by the way I don't like Tom Cruise's acting but people were acting like is was flubbing... (read full)

3/4  Valkyrie Quick Review
Very suspenseful. Cruise is wooden at the beginning but loosens up to become his character quite well actually. He plays the colonel well half the time. The lack of accent didn't bother me, though it didn't feel totally German. Solid!

3.5/4  Valkyrie Quick Review
A really good film. Well acted, well directed and a very engaging plot. I hate the fact that Tom Cruise is in another great movie!

3/5 Ok Movie
  by Peter J. Antisen (Tampa Bay Area)
the movie was ok if you like war movies....though it's not about fighting in the field...not one of Cruise's best performances..but worth a view anyway

5/5 Valkyrie [Blu-ray]
  by Kathleen Lee Anderson (Los Angeles, CA USA)
The Valkyrie started off with Tom Cruise showing the dilemma of an officer with total dedication to Hitler's Germany and his own personal conscious, knowing Hitler's plan to destroy all Jews, gays and gypsies. In the documentary of this courageous man, it shows that he witnessed people being shot over a ditch so it would be easier to bury them. This is why the officer elected to kill Hitler and put an end to the war. Valkyrie was to code name of a group of high ranking officers who formed the plot to replace Hitler and his regime. The plot of the movie centered on the magnificent Germany war machine that not only plotted the death of all leading officers, but their conspiracy to replace the German government head within 4 short hours. This movie eliminated the brutality of the concentration camps and replaced with suspense.



4/5 Pretty Good Movie
  by Jeffrey C. Meade (Illinois)
I wouldn't go see this in the theater because I just couldnt get past watching Tom Cruise play a German surrounded by all these other people with British accents. I decided to rent the movie on Amazon and it was worth the money. After you get past the early parts of the movie you completely forget about Tom Cruise and his American accent. When they set the bomb off to kill Hitler you really start to move to the edge of your seat and the movie has a great supporting cast of actors. You don't realize how close they came to actually assassinating Hitler until you watch this.

4/5 One big star, one big flaw (hint: they're the same)
  by AlanC (New York, NY)
When a two-hour movie spurs you to spend four more hours reading about the event on which it is based, it's fair to say the viewing was time well spent. I didn't expect much from Valkyrie. I mean, we all know how this story ends (I realize schooling isn't what it used to be, but do we really need a spoiler alert here?). So I was pleasantly surprised to find myself, frankly, riveted. So much is top notch here: the production design, the photography, the pacing, and especially the supporting actors. Indeed, every actor -- Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Eddie Izzard, even -- seems an inspired choice for their respective role, creating multi-dimensional characters that are flawed, conflicted, and all too human. Or at least, every actor but one. The bad news: Tom Cruise just doesn't pull it off here. In fact, he nearly ruins the show. I've liked Cruise in other roles -- he's underrated in Born on the Fourth of July and his bravado-on-autopilot schtick works well in A Few Good Men. But here he is oddly ineffective. The screenwriters don't exactly help him -- when we first see Cruise, his view of the war and its political leaders is already set, and we never get a sense of how this came about. When he is blown up early in the film, losing an eye, one hand, and several fingers on the other, these grievous injuries are treated like a minor inconvenience. This is a theme that continues through the movie: Emotional events rendered with zero emotion. Everyone else here struggles with the decision to try to kill Hitler. They know it should happen, but they're also worried about the consequences of failing (and not insignificantly, what those consequences will mean for their own skin -- maybe not the most noble consideration, but a genuine one). Cruise's character -- who knows well that if he fails his family will likely be arrested, or worse -- never seems to truly wrestle with his decision to deliver the lethal blow (or, more accurately, blast). The few cursory flicks at indecision, like that last long embrace of his wife, seem staged and rote and insincere. His unwavering dedication to the mission might make Cruise's character a hero. But it also makes him seem fake. I mean, here's a plan where the guy with three fingers is picked to arm the bomb -- who wouldn't have some second thoughts about an operation like that? But Cruise treats this all like he's Maverick from Top Gun: Just give me the stick (of TNT, this time) and let me do my job. It doesn't work. But fortunately, almost everything else in this film does.

5/5 Awesome
  by Darren Vineyard (Platteville, Colorado)
Wow what an awesome movie. All the movie stars. Each character was played by the perfect actor. Tom Cruise knocked it out of the park on this one.Very well done. I know I heard all the critics say he didnt fit the part. But you know they say that about all of his movies. he has been black balled for being of a certain religion. Dont we americans call that racism? Anyway it is a movie that was pure entertainment.