Valkyrie Gets Blu-ray Release Date & Cover Art

Hey, remember this movie?  It’s ok, I’ll give you some time to think about it … Yeah, alot of people have the same forgetful thought, although it wasnt a bad movie it just didnt score so well this past Christmas season in the box office.  Valkyrie will be making its DVD and Blu-ray Release the same day on May 19th.  Ok, I’ll wait a few seconds for you Tommy Cruise fan boys to calm down … :-p  Tech Specs are listed below.

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Broadcasted in 1080p Blu-ray goodness with a HD MA Audio Track
Audio track commentary from Tom Cruise, Bryan Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie.
The Journey to Valkyrie
The Valkyrie Legacy
The Road To Resistance: A Visual Guide
The African Front Sequence
Taking to the Air
Recreating Berlin
92nd Street:  Reel Peices with Tom Crusie and Bryan Singer
Digital Copy*

*Highly Speculated/Not Confirmed.

Unpretentious and dramatically straightforward, Valkyrie is a suspenseful yet ennobling story about the last attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler prior to the end of World War II. Tom Cruise is effective if a little opaque as hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who channels his anger at Hitler’s atrocities and mismanagement of the war by joining a secret organization bent on killing the Führer. When the outspoken Stauffenberg hits on the idea of linking Hitler’s death with an official policy to safeguard Berlin during a government crisis–a contingency plan called “Valkyrie”–the group realizes a post-assassination coup could be covered by rapidly implementing the plan. History tells us the plot failed, of course, and Hitler killed himself months later. But that doesn’t stop Cruise or director Bryan Singer from approaching the film as a thinking person’s thriller, told from inside the conspirators’ camp, where the outcome of their deeds were uncertain for several tense hours.

In the tradition of The Great Escape, Valkyrie is a war movie full of famous faces, including Kenneth Branagh, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard. (The lesser-known David Bamber is very good as Hitler, hunched and cracking under pressure.) The film’s gravity is offset a bit by the fun of seeing all these actors in a factually-based slice of history, and by a few, interesting stylistic flourishes on Singer’s part, including the peculiarly unsettling image of a mosquito sizzled to death in close-up. –Tom Keogh

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