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"Valkyrie"

Tom Cruise leads a cast of actors giving terrible performances in a big-budget Nazi thriller that's just following orders.
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Saturday, December 27, 2008 05:31 AM

    James Mason?

    Ever see Carol Reed's "Odd Man Out?"

    Reed also put out one of Orson Wells better turns at acting - the legendary "Third Man."

    Mason put in a pretty good performance in Sam Pekinpah's brutal "Cross of Iron" too, a definate departure from Hollywood's usual long held tradition of romanticising war..

    You know the dull old drill, catsup, Bugs Bunny, John Vain, and Johnny Jingo...

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