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A polished, high-stakes wartime thriller built around a real assassination plot, but it often plays more like procedural suspense than emotional drama. The tension comes from logistics, timing, and inevitability; the downside is that the film can feel restrained and a little bloodless despite the subject matter.
Where to watch: Buy
Thu · 2h 1m
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg 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.
Bryan Singer
Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy
A polished, high-stakes wartime thriller built around a real assassination plot, but it often plays more like procedural suspense than emotional drama. The tension comes from logistics, timing, and inevitability; the downside is that the film can feel restrained and a little bloodless despite the subject matter.
Valkyrie is an unusually slick World War II thriller: less a grand war epic than a tightly wound operation movie. Its best asset is the premise itself, which gives the film a built-in countdown and a sense of fatal momentum. The cast is strong, and the production keeps the machinery of the coup moving with real clarity.
riley · 1316 likes
bluray was $3 at 7/11. only $3 for this shot of tom cruise's ass. greatest god damn $3 i have ever spent. a steal
matt lynch (3★) · 791 likes
Tom Cruise is so completely dedicated to his craft and showing the audience something they've never seen before that he actually went back in time to kill Hitler.
🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 (3.5★) · 765 likes
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NAZI
Andy Summers 🤠 (4.5★) · 324 likes
Historical dramas usually have one thing going against them, history. How do you build a tension filled plot when everyone knows the outcome? That was Bryan Singer's biggest problem in the making of this brilliantly constructed thriller than focused on the unsuccessful attempt by a leading group of German officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler in the Summer of 1944. Bringing together an all star cast that would put most productions to shame, Singer made us invest our faith in these
Ellie ✨ (3★) · 311 likes
there's literally no point in letting tom cruise star in films that aren't homoerotic
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World War II, anti-Nazi resistance, assassination plot, military conspiracy, ticking-clock suspense, duty and sacrifice, historical inevitability, bureaucratic thriller
World War II, historical thriller, war drama, political conspiracy, ticking clock, ensemble cast, period piece, resistance, procedural suspense, studio craftsmanship