Valkyrie

Tom Cruise is a colonel who lost his right hand, some fingers and an eye in Tunisia, who realises that you can not serve Germany and the Führer.  Every Nazi soldier in World War two swore an oath to the Führer for loyalty and leadership of Nazi Germany.  In a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler, based upon real events Tom Cruise and the team devise a plan where upon success, operation Valkyrie is announced and the state security takes control in Berlin to agree a truce with the allies.  If they fail, their families and loved ones will be found too.

The film kept you on the edge as you were worried for the success and safety of the team.  The plan is clever.  Eddie Izzard helps the team in the operation as the inside man.  The beginning is engaging and the pace is never too slow.  Full of A list actors who don’t adopt German accents!

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Rating: 8.1/10

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A Few Good Men

A court room drama with a difference.  Were men just acting on orders or …..

Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Baconand Kiefer Sutherland in a star studded cast.  Nicholson is the Cornel in charge of the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, he eats his breakfast 300 yards away from trained Cubans who want to blow his head off.  Cruise is the hot shot naval lawyer acting for the two soldiers accused of murder.  Demi Moore is in charge of Internal Affairs and puts herself forward to accompany Cruise to Guantanamo Bay.  Together they make a Team and go after the case, with the full intent of winning.  Kevin Bacon is the Prosecution acting for the Government and he warns Cruise that potentially his Defence could result in his own Court Marshall if he were to follow it through.

Intellectual film limited by the fact that it was played out in the court room after events had happened but having said that Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson are outstanding at pitting their wits against each other.  You swing from side to side – both cases are so reasonable – who is really culpable and all the clues are there for you?

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Rating 7.8/10

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