DISQUS

790 · 11 months ago

I'll watch the History Channel' version.
Thanks...

peter wolf · 11 months ago

I just saw this movie 2 hours ago and I cannot believe the negative comments about it. I thought it was very, very good. The supporting cast is excellent. The production is excellent. Who cares if Cruise ( who no one believes is Olivier or Hopkins) is not perfect. The movie itself works very well.

joshin · 10 months ago

I agree with peter wolf. I believe this review was pretty brutal. The movie was very climactic from beginning to end. In fact, the ending was so shocking to the audience that the moment the movie finished, no one spoke a word. Everyone proceeded out of theater quietly and when they got outside people were in awe at the fact that the movie was really good.

Maybe I speak for myself, but I thought it was fantastic.

MosesMonster · 10 months ago

I completely agree. I thought the movie was superb and great story telling.

adam · 10 months ago

I just had to comment on the part about the ending being so shocking to the audience...REALLY?!?! How did you think this was gonna end??? Did you actually think they were gonna kill Hitler??? I mean what did you think was gonna happen, that they'd just slap Cruise on the hand and say "Don't try that again!" I'm sorry but the audience must not have been very smart...or they thought "big movie star" Tom Cruise was gonna save the world, thus changing history!!!! LOL

adam · 10 months ago

Yeah joshin i think you do speak for yourself (and peter wolf apparently) cuz this movie wasn't one of Cruise's better ones (i.e. A Few Good Men)...didn't the fact that almost NONE of the actors (asides from the guy playing Hitler - he was creepy good) have German accents bother you??? Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this a film about Nazis in Germany during WWII?!?! Instead Cruise sounded like, well Cruise, and others had a mixture of British accents, maybe Irish accents, etc...what was that about???

MosesMonster · 10 months ago

It seemed more like an artistic approach if you ask me. Since they were going to tell the story in an English language, why contain the accent? Sometimes that bothered me when I was watching a movie about foreign affairs and everyone spoke English with an accent. Some, not all. I wasn't bothered by the different accents because it seemed like a negligible detail. I got the feel for the movie better I think because of it. I was drawn more into the characterization.

adam · 10 months ago

Artistic? You call that artistic??? Okay whatever I guess everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Obviously the multiple accents REALLY bothered me (if you couldn't tell), it's like you had to stop for a minute to think is this guy a German or an ally or what??? And w/Cruise having his regular old American accent, it made it seem like nothing more than another one of his average (at best) Mission Impossible movies...

adam · 10 months ago

It left me wondering what Singer was trying to accomplish by not having them ALL speak w/German accents since they were, after all, portraying German Nazis. Maybe Cruise wasn't making enough to learn a German accent (I highly doubt that) or he was just too arrogant as "the big movie star" to learn one, who knows. And if it was simply Singer's decision, well it was a bad one b/c for me it took away from the film's overall authenticity. I had a hard time buying into the characters and their believabilty as Nazis, esp w/Cruise as the lead guy . He started out speaking German when writing the letter in the beginning, then all of a sudden he had his regular American accent for the rest of the movie...HUH?!?! Didn't make any sense and completely ruined the movie for me...save your money!!!

MosesMonster · 10 months ago

It does and it doesn't. It's mentioned why they want to remove him, and it's not because of the Holocaust.(Most German Soldiers were unaware of those events.)

MosesMonster · 10 months ago

Accents aside, was that the only factor that was bothersome? Was there a problem with the story telling or cinematography? Or was the accent sort of a limiting hurdle and sort of put you out of the film? I thought the acting from all sides were pretty good and overall the story progressed in such a way, you really wanted them to succeed, even though your better judgment knows the outcome to the story. I find that rare in historical pieces.

adam · 10 months ago

Yeah the diverse accents (or lack-there-of in Cruise's case) was the main factor for me in why I didn't really care for the movie. It just took away from the overall authenticity of the film and made most of the characters highly unbelievable as German Nazis. If you're not gonna have them speak in German w/English subtitles (which I'll admit would've gotten old), at least have them speak w/a German accent while speaking English. And OF COURSE you wanted them to succeed, how couldn't you when they were trying to take down arguably the most vile and sadistic man of our time?!?!

MosesMonster · 10 months ago

But that's the thing, history tells you different. You know their outcome and the fate of Hitler, but this film had me believe different. Most historical films I watch, where I know the outcome, I sort of tone out the tension as I already know what's coming. It becomes another period piece, but with this, it felt truly like a thriller through and through and kept me on the edge till the very last line. But you, it's all a matter of opinion, and I see the points you make. For me, I'm the opposite, if they aren't going to speak the language, don't disguise it with phony accents.

adam · 10 months ago

Well to each his own, I guess we agree to disagree...

Alericc · 10 months ago

A positive movie about Germans who stood against the Nazi State, I will give it a look, even though I do not care for Cruise any longer. I have read too much about this event and want to see if they actually capture the spirit of the attempt well.

Dak · 10 months ago

What I'm curious to know is whether this movie is true to the actual events and reasons for attempting to assassinate Hitler? That is, were they trying to remove Hitler because he was destroying Germany or because he was murdering millions of innocent people? And does this story delve into that motivation?

Alericc · 10 months ago

Agreed Dak, WWII was a great interest of mine ever since I was in High School and I know what happened to all the men who were involved. They and their families were butchered after this attempt as well as hundreds of others who were simply friends or aquantinces of theirs. Rommel was even forced to commit suicide over simply being included in one of the discussions.

sam · 10 months ago

I don't think it's Cruise's fault for not having a German accent. I've seen his movies and I know that if the directors wanted him to have an accent, he would have had one, he's not half bad at it. So I think it was more of the directors' fault for not requesting it than the actors for not learning it, though why the directors would do that I have no idea...

Christian Bale · 9 months ago

Your review is f*cking unprofessional. Are you f*cking insane?! We are done...professionally! How many times do I have to tell you not to write this naive bullsh*t and then publish it?! Man get out of the business we're done!