Poor Tom. Rose to success on his youthful good looks and charm before he learned how to act, spent the last few decades in full view of the world attempting to do so, and hit pre-middle age with still no evidence that he could. It isn't just that he continues to choose roles that are beyond him, he repeatedly sees himself as characters for which he's dreadfully miscast--The MI films, War Of The Worlds, Eyes Wide Shut, et. al. I can't shake the feeling that I'm seeing a kid playing dress-up in his dad's clothes. Stick to romantic comedies, TC. Think “Luke Wilson” in lifts.

Will "Valkyrie"

Be a Cruise

Missle

Or a Cruise

Bomb?

And will I even remember this movie

When the hype's

All good and gone?

I saw Valkyrie yesterday. It is fine piece of work. As a basic test it succeeds in explaining the July Plot. The locations are very well done. Sure, it has problems; it might have been more tense and, as always, historical details are lost in the compression of movie making. I would have liked more background on the Resistance leaders; they were extraordinary individuals. I would have liked the script to have included Stauffenberg's brothers. I also noticed many instances of the overhead microphone dropping into the frame.

By the way, if you have a visceral reaction to German uniforms, give this one a miss. Also, if you have a problem with the idea that not all German soldiers in the Second World War were Nazis, or if you feel that the singular event of the War was the Holocaust, then this film might make you angry.

I did not like the Slate's review of this film. Maybe some of the criticism of the acting is not far off the mark; for instance I have never been a big fan of Bill Nighy either.

My first criticism of the review is the mischaracterization of Cruise. As a reviewer, a good rule of thumb is that if you find yourself writing sentences that compare the central actor to a hamster (or whatever she called him), at that point the reviewer might think about stopping the review right there and asking a colleague to vet the film. Because at that point, you are not really informing your audience anymore.

I am tired of hearing all the abuse of Tom Cruise out there in reviewer land. Is there more to be said on this matter than it needs to just stop?

My second criticism of the review is contextual. After reading the review, I did not come away with an understanding of why the July Plot is a story for the ages.

Namely, that when you think about it on your own for a minute, those Resistance people showed astounding bravery.

Thank you for reading my note. Good luck Stephanie with the next review!

Cagney

Sorry, but the only thing worse than a Scientologist is a Psychiatrist. Being against those drugs is the only good thing about Scientology.

Phenothiazine, an insecticides, cattle wormer and dye, gave us the miracle drugs of anti-psychotics and tricyclic antidepressants. The SSRIs? Based on fluoride insecticide technology.

The two major types of happy pills are based on insecticides. Nerve poison is not good for your neurochemistry. Fluoride really messes up your thyroid which is its mechanism for effect - if you want your serotonin working right, eat beans, turkey and salmon.

Don't stop taking the drugs abruptly unless you want to freak out and go on a killing spree followed by a suicide. Ever wonder why there are so many of those today and that hardly ever happened BEFORE we started doping up a quarter of the population?

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=antidepressant+violence&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

The industry is doing its best to confuse the issue and hide the truth. Did you know that the Columbine killers where on antidepressants? Did you know that the marines turned one of them down right before the massacre?

Why do you think they run so many ads on TV and in the print media?

It buys silence.

Sorry, but the only thing worse than a Scientologist is a Psychiatrist. Being against those drugs is the only good thing about Scientology.

Phenothiazine, an insecticides, cattle wormer and dye, gave us the miracle drugs of anti-psychotics and tricyclic antidepressants. The SSRIs? Based on fluoride insecticide technology.

The two major types of happy pills are based on insecticides. Nerve poison is not good for your neurochemistry. Fluoride really messes up your thyroid which is its mechanism for effect - if you want your serotonin working right, eat beans, turkey and salmon.

Don't stop taking the drugs abruptly unless you want to freak out and go on a killing spree followed by a suicide. Ever wonder why there are so many of those today and that hardly ever happened BEFORE we started doping up a quarter of the population?

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=antidepressant+violence&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

The industry is doing its best to confuse the issue and hide the truth. Did you know that the Columbine killers where on antidepressants? Did you know that the marines turned one of the down right before the the massacre?

Why do you think they run so many ads on TV and in the print media?

It buys silence.

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...

I share your enthusiasm for James Mason, a definite crush when I was a young person, therefore it was somewhat shocking to discover much later that Gen.Erwin Rommel was not the nice person Mason with his very sophisticated personality portrayed.

The real general was a brutish animal.

The name of the film that you are looking for happens to be:

The Desert Fox