Okay, I know what you're thinking. Why am I going all Chris Crocker in defense of Xenu-guy? Two reasons:1) I'm sick of hearing about him.
2) It's distracting from the real issue at hand.
His new film Valkyrie is coming out at the end of the month, and all people can talk about is "Gee, that Tom Cruise is still pretty weird." Or, I really like how MSN's Celebrity Buzz put it in their byline: "Can Valkyrie help put Tom Cruise back on top? It's a risky film to make, and not just because of the sensitive subject matter. Cruise has been trying to rehabilitate his image, and few PR experts regularly advise donning a German army uniform to engender warm feelings."
Why is it every time the press gives any space to this film, it's always OMG TOM CRUISE IS PLAYING A NAZI? Are people not paying attention to the fact that this film is about a bunch of guys who TRIED TO BLOW UP HITLER? I was unaware that efforts to assassinate a mass-murdering dictator might be "sensitive subject matter". I would think we'd all be on board here.
Granted, it was a tumultuous production, but much of that was generated by the press to begin with. And yes, there are all sorts of accents in play here. But would you rather have another K-19 situation, where Harrison Ford spectacularly tried on a Russian accent? Listen, more than anything else Tom deserves to be in this film because it's his job to play the hero in films and he happens to look JUST LIKE THE DUDE HE'S PLAYING.
Ultimately, what I'm saying here is that I want to see this movie and I'm tired of everything being about TOM CRUISE IS A NAZI more than anything else. It's character assassination, and it's taking valuable gossip press space away from Anne Hathaway.
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Yep, you see the movie and....surpise... it ends up just being a movie. Not a smoking, flaming diaster but not exactly a masterpiece either.
Accents are a non-issue except for the fact that Cruise talks like his surfer boy self and everyone else sounds like they came straight from upstairs downstairs.
Main problem is that they don't offer much to keep your attention (little action, just a parade of sitting British guys in uniforms that are hard to keep track of, don't do much to let you get to know Cruise's character either).
First half moves in slow motion, but it picks up in the second once they actually start doing something instead of just talking about it.
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