Die Walküre

Movie:Valkyrie
Language:English
People:Tom Cruise
Rating: 3.25/5

This one is for the History fanatics, okay If not fanatics then at least for them who are interested/fascinated by World War stories. The film is about one of the assassination attempts on Hitler from within the German Camp.

Tom Cruise plays the leader of the German Revolution Camp (Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg) .
For me Tom Cruise did quite well, and he also looks German (doesn't he?) . His camp consists of officers from the military as well as some politicians. They try to use Hitler's own system against him.

The reason I say Hitler's "own" system is because, One of his good achievements was that he was able to organize /regroup Germany after World War I (Well, may not be for the right cause). But he had converted Germany to run like a well oiled machine. His military mind was such that he had thought everything (Well, almost everything ... bunker,cyanide) . Anyways he had kept a Reserve army to regain Berlin, in case he died -Fail Safe mechanism.

Tom Cruise's (Colonel Stauffenberg) men decided to use this Fail-Safe system to their advantage. The movie keeps the audience hooked on to it at all times, be it the command sending routine or strategy discussions at the Wolf's Lair . There are a few surprises as well along the way. I would definitely recommend this movie, and if you want to increase your World War II knowledge before you see this movie google some stuff up like "Wolf's Lair", "Hitler's inner Circle","SS/Schutzstaffel".