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Fri 01 Jan 2009Valkyrie
BRYAN SINGER’S treatment of the July 20th plot to assassinate Hitler has been shuffled round the schedules more often than that god-awful Guns n’ Roses album. As a result, suspicions have grown that the film may stink like unwashed lederhosen (or Chinese Democracy). Yet, oddly, the rumours suggest that the film has just one big problem: it’s got Tom Cruise in it, writes DONALD CLARKE.
What an odd irony. By signing up to play Count Claus von Stauffenberg, the officer who led the plot, Cruise ensured that this costly film got made, but the faint hint of camp that hangs around the star jeopardised its successful release.
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