Review: VALKYRIE (58)
(Originally published by Paste)
The grand idea behind Valkyrie, director Bryan Singer’s first non-superhero feature since 1998’s Apt Pupil, is “Nazis weren’t all bad.” Paul Verhoeven successfully mined similar ground in Black Book, and with two of Valkyrie’s actors, Carice van Houten and Waldemar Kobus, but there’s still plenty of material to explore. With the added resonance of catching Tom Cruise partway through a career resurgence (courtesy of Tropic Thunder) all Singer needed was a taut script to keep the gears moving in time. Read the rest of this entry →