Friday saw the three of us go to yet another movie set in mid-centuray Germany. I saw a documentary on TV some 20 or 30 years ago about one of the most promising efforts to assassinate Hitler. This dramatization of the plot led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenburg won the thumbs up for historical accuracy by my Tallahassee World War II buffs David and Boyd. Boyd wrote his dissertation about the economic impact of the SS in wartime Germany. This movie is fair enough with familiar faces such as Tom Cruise and Kenneth Brataugh. The omnipresent Tom Wilkinson again almost steals the show as the hedging-his-bets General Fromm. A relatively suspenseful portrayal of this promising attempt, the movie nevertheless suffers from the inability of viewers to get an idea what motivated Stauffenburg to form part of the Resistance to Hitler.
-- Perry
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