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Watchmen Valkyrie - Hi, Hitler

I did not review it. I mean really. You a film that, despite the theme, goes rather unnoticed. Directed without flash, didactic story, acting craft. In short, the classic detective. Shot in costume because of the scenario: Hitler's Germany in disarray, the year 1944.
though. There is always a however. Because if you put the camera behind Bryan Singer (and writer Christopher McQuarrie, his companion of the "Usual Suspects"). If you put in front of Tom Cruise. And if you dressed up with a bandage, a crippled arm and a hair style Groucho Marx. If you do this, you expect something, for better or for worse. Of course, preferably in evil.
spoken, I guess it already know, a true story. A conspiracy that seeks to kill Adolf Hitler concocted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg in the Wehrmacht (Cruise, of course), in full decline of Nazi dominance. The war is being lost, and before they bombed a base camp (putting on eye and hand), our meditation to overturn the Fuhrer. Gather, not without difficulty, various followers, more or less involved with the regime, to rewrite the 'Valkyrie' which gives the title to the film: it is a plan to convene the military reserve of the Reich in the event of Allied invasion. The colonel decided to draw up changing the premise: no longer an external attack, but a coup. With the death of Hitler annexed, and subsequent removal of the SS. Ambitious idea, which will be signed (not trouble to read from cover to cover what goes on your desk) by the Chancellor himself. History tells us that, for a mistake, the plot will not have the desired effect. The attack (a bomb exploded by Stauffenberg and the "den of wolves," the bunker of Hitler, during a meeting of high-profile) does not kill the Fuhrer. However, suffice to induce the author, returning to Berlin, to spread the false news of death to seize power. The catch can only beginning, as long as Hitler does not notify the hierarchy that is still alive, and that the army must punish the traitors.
Now, it is harder to shoot a thriller, already knowing the ending, was guessed. That the story is loose and bad in the second half, after the attack failed, it was predictable. But notwithstanding this, no one has pointed out to Singer that something terrible had happened with the casting, honestly, no, you could imagine. Why walk when choosing to play the lead in Tom Cruise (who is American, but well known), but that all co-stars in the role of German generals, are British, it is absolutely unacceptable. In series: Tom Wilkinson (English), Bill Nighy (English), Terence Stamp (English). More Kenneth Branagh (Northern Ireland). Even Hitler (ie actor David Bamber) is English. He soon suspects that the script is Churchill (I suspect soon foiled, given the results of the plot).
The rest? Not better. And not because they are not detailed the personal reasons of the leader of the conspirators (as some critics would have liked, that perhaps he thought of facing a documentary). But why Cruise, who personifies, is clearly not at ease. Reduced to obedience by the black patch, mask repression and anger for his part, wearing the glass eye just before the Fuhrer. But he can not resist the ridiculous, at least in two scenes: one in which the secretary looks after the drafting of the first Line of Operation ("Adolf Hitler is dead"), a true monument embarrassment, another unforgettable experience, in which screaming at full screen, lifting the stump, "Heil Hitler." Hi, saw the cast, it would be more appropriate.
not be the best Chancellor, however. Less geometric than hoped, it is hesitant and stoned, wandering around the scene with the look of the hound that does not identify what you smell. And coming, as appropriate, indoctrinated or blatantly made fun of. In addition to bombing, as we already knew. Moreover, it seems the least: the army of the Queen has now taken possession of Berlin, while the Fuhrer in his buen retiro, pleasantly sipping a cup of tea.
INFORMATION
Valkyrie
In a sentence: "Every second we lose a second is lost"
Sconsigliatissimo:
anyone think that a film the Nazis should have, at least, a fair player.
Rating:
KKK

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