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!

5/5 Valkyrie
  by James A. Loomis (Portland, Oregon USA)
Very good movie. I felt Tom Cruise did an excellent job of re-creating Von Stauffenberg's role in the attempt on Hitler's life. This film gave more information than I have found from other sources. There may me variations from the facts, but it is still very informative.

1/5 YAWN!
  by DianaC7 (Southeast USA)
Honestly, I could not stay awake; and, I tried to watch it twice! Boring...

4/5 Gripping film, but -
  by R. L. Huff (Louisiana)
Plays into the stereotype - not to see whitewash - of the "good" German Army vs. "the bad" Hitler/SS/Nazi Party. Colonel von Stauffenberg's motives may have been personally the highest, but the attempt to drape the whole German Army in the rightousness of his protest goes too far. The Wehrmacht's role in war crimes is too well-documented. The motive for most of the plotters (and the film does allude to this) were to scrape Germany's wartorn nuts out of the fire by assassinating Hitler, make peace with the Western Alles, and prevent the occupation of Germany, repeating the successful diplomacy of WW I. No doubt the outcome for Germany would have been happier if the plot had succeeded.

Cruise does an excellent job portraying the Colonel, and even bears a striking physical resemblance to the real man. A lot was crammed into two hours of film, which might make it uneven and perhaps confusing for those unfamiliar with the story. This is compensated by its swift to-the-bone pace, making for a gripping film that is best watched complete from beginning to end. The reconstruction of period detail is impeccable throughout.

A revealing afternote to the story: Wehrmacht war criminals sentenced at Nuremberg were released from American custody at the insistence of Federal Chancellor Adenauer in 1955, to gain the officer corps' cooperation in forming the new NATO-led Bundeswehr. This included their amnesty and complete rehabilitation. Many of these officers returned to active duty, justifying their wartime deeds with highly revisionist accounts of Germany's wartime "struggle" and "sacrifice," while draping themselves in the mantle of von Stauffenberg's attempted redemption. Fortunately for the modern Bundeswehr that he was executed, as he would have doubtless taken aim next at its self-serving mythology.

Ironic, too, that this story of an act of terror is released and receiving highly-deserved acclaim during a self-described "War on Terror." Apparently there is "good" terror and "bad" terror, like "good" soldiers and "bad."

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.