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2012年1月13日星期五

'Too stiff, too short and too dull to play the real-life plotter': German critics pan Tom Cruise in Valkyrie

 

  had hoped his latest film about a failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler might win him back his status as Hollywood's top star.
Instead, Valkyrie has seen Cruise himself assassinated - in stinging reviews by critics and a relative of the character he plays.
His performance as Prussian aristocrat Count Claus von Stauffenberg, who dared to try to blow up the Nazi leader, has received the harshest criticisms so far from Germany, where it is set.
Until the film opens in the UK on Friday at least, it appears to be a case of Hitler 1, Cruise 0.
The German critics may not be fans, but these Berliners certainly are: Tom Cruise arrives for the Europe premiere of Valkyrie at in Berlin tonight
The German critics may not be fans, but these Berliners certainly are: Tom Cruise arrives for the Europe premiere of Valkyrie at in Berlin tonight

Franz von Stauffenberg, a descendant of the general, called Cruise: 'Too stiff, too short and too dull to play the real-life plotter.' He added: 'Tom Cruise seems terribly cautious, almost as if he were afraid of playing the role.
'He tries to seem elegant but comes across as extremely stiff. He seems not at all decisive in the role and above all not charismatic enough. On the whole he just seems too small.'
The chief critic of Berlin's daily Der Tagesspiegel wrote: 'Cruise forms the flat, expressionless centre of the film around which the input of the remaining cast and crew fades away like a spectre - and it is not the fault of the eye patch that the wounded Stauffenberg wears.
'The efforts of the other actors seem well-nigh grotesque next to the stony-faced acting of the film's star.'
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Flat and expressionless: Tom Cruise's performance in Valkyrie has been panned by German critics

The Austrian Times described Cruise's performance as 'wooden'.
The reviews are sure to unsettle Cruise, as the film is something of a comeback for him.
Cruise wore a Nazi officer's uniform in the US-German production to play Stauffenberg, who placed a bomb under a table in Hitler's eastern headquarters in East Prussia on July 20, 1944 in a failed bid to end World War 2.
Cruise poses with a female fan at the premiere
Cruise poses with a female fan at the premiere
The Nazi leader escaped with slight injuries because the briefcase carrying the explosives was moved behind a sturdy leg of the oak table by an unwitting aide.
Stauffenberg and other conspirators were rounded up and executed, making them martyrs of the German resistance whose memory has been carefully tended in the post-war years.
Valkyrie has already been criticised by US critics as 'Nazi apologia'. Roger Friedman, film critic for Fox News, said the movie appeared to intentionally minimize the impact of Nazism.
'I'm concerned that Valkyrie could represent a new trend in film-making: Nazi apologia. Not once in Valkyrie do any of the "heroes" mention what's happening around them. Hitler has systemically killed millions,' said Friedman.
'Valkyrie opens the door to a dangerous new thought: that the Holocaust and all the other atrocities could be of secondary important to the cause of German patriotism.'
Cruise is in London tomorrow as he prepares for the UK film premiere and interview with Jonathan Ross.
The actor is set to appear on Jonathan Ross's first Friday night BBC1 chat show since the presenter's three-month suspension for the prank calls he and Russell Brand made to Andrew Sachs.
 

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