Valkyrie: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson. A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.

During World War II, Wehrmacht Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) is severely wounded during an RAF air raid in Tunisia, losing a hand and an eye, and is evacuated home to Nazi Germany.

Col. Claus von Stauffenberg : [when all are wondering who shall go to get Hitler's signiture on the Valkyrie papers] Well, we can all draw straws for that job.

In "Valkyrie," Tom Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg, a battle-scarred corporal in the German army, who helps to spearhead the conspiracy to bring Hitler's worldwide reign of terror to an abortive end.

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The conspirators of 20 July 1944, Stauffenberg (played by Tom Cruise) and others from the Wehrmacht's General Staff amongst them, tried to modify the plan according to their needs so that they would be able to quickly disarm SS troops, arrest the leading Nazis, and take over control of German cities.

Valkyrie: Directed by Bryan Singer. With Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson. A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.

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The new Tom Cruise movie "Valkyrie," a dutiful but dreary reenactment of the 20th July 1944, Hitler bomb plot is no blast. Clocking in at a tedious two hours, this military procedural potboiler about the last of 15 flawed efforts to assassinate Adolf Hitler displays immaculate production values and a first-class cast.

Valkyrie has a coterie of problems, and represents a whole new front in Tom Cruise's public relations war, but first and foremost there's the tedium. See all 36 reviews on Metacritic.com