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Valkyrie - Movie Review
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-19 16:40:29 440
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Tom Cruise has failed to kill Hitler. Only in American cinema would this ever be deemed a good thing.
By Brian King @ Armchair General
With the kind of star power attached to Valkyrie, it would not have been surprising to see Tom Cruise swept up in an epic love story which only reluctantly addressed the July 20, 1944, plot to kill Adolph Hitler. Would anyone have been shocked to see the film take liberties with the actual story, using the man from Mission Impossible to literally do the impossible and succeed in his daring plot to kill Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime? Hard experience has taught us that Hollywood is unparalleled in its ability to bungle even the most compelling -and true- stories. But Valkyrie is different.
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