Valkyrie

It was a remarkably good film, tense and compelling throughout despite the lack of actual action. It centred on a real-life plot by German officials who opposed the Third Reich attempting to assassinate Hitler from within, risking execution and the safety of their families attempting a coup. This is really a triumph for all involved, Brian Singer just as much as his cast, including Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson, managing to transcend expectations of middlebrow action-thriller to make a worthy and actually rather impressive historical movie, again with this strange idea that if you have British and American actors at once, you can get away with the idea that they’re from some other country. Which you can. Also had Eddie Izzard in, which I didn’t realise until later, and Kenneth Brannagh in an interesting lesser role. Hitler was made a little excessively sinister, however.