"Valkyrie" **1/2 (out of four): Talk about an impossible mission: Tom Cruise plays a German WWII Colonel with plans to assassinate Hitler in this distractingly anachronistic fact-based tale from Bryan Singer.
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In "Valkyrie" - the fact-based potboiler from director Bryan Singer - Tom Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg, the real-life German Colonel who led the titular operation to assassinate Hitler.
Ok, let all that sink in a bit. Take your time.
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To see this movie with everyone speaking German, one should actually go to Germany. There, all movies are dubbed. Although not perfectly lip-sync, at least the language is correct.
As a matter of fact, the 'Synchronsprecher', or dub actor for Tom Cruise, Patrick Winczewski, is very famous in Germany, but he only gets recognized when he opens his mouth.
Apart from Cruise, who actually insists on Winczewski doing all his German dub versions, Winczewski is also the German voice of Val Kilmer, Don Johnson, Hugh Grant and Kevin Baker, to name but a few...