I spent part of Christmas at the movies. The movie theater was so barren that I considered going to another movie immediately after the first. I saw Valkyrie. I had read at least one review and that person didn’t like the movie. I knew I would be seeing this movie because my son was excited about it, but I wasn’t looking forward to it if it was as bad as the review proclaimed. The review couldn’t be more wrong.

The movie was very good. The actors weren’t unknowns outside of Tom Cruise. The movie had quite a cast of character actors. It’s a movie worth seeing to find out about the plot to kill Hitler by a few of his officers. often documentaries make it seem that most Germans agreed with Hitler or at the least just followed blindly. I found it remarkable that this group had enough supporters to actually take over the government for a few hours.

I enjoyed the movie from start to finish–and I’m not a World War II history buff. That would be my son. Check it out for yourself.