I chose Valkyrie because I've always wanted to watch it and I felt that now would be a good time!
The movie starts out with a German chant to obey Hitler, and then a man is writing, in German, in his journal. It then translates into English for the sake of the movie. He is writing about how Hitler is Germany's enemy. It then cuts to a desert where a general and colonel are conversing about the future of the war. Then, an AA gun starts shooting, and planes come overhead, bombing the soldiers, wounding and killing several, including the general. As the colonel tries driving away, his truck is shot by another plane. He is badly wounded.
It then cuts to somewhere in Russia where German planes are about to land in March 13, 1943. Many German soldiers are lined up, ready to meet the men in the planes. After many men step out, Adolf Hitler comes out. They then have a small dinner. They then start to load a bomb of sorts into a bottle, hoping to kill Hitler. As Hitler gets onto the plane, the colonel grants him the bottle with the bomb in it. The two men are waiting to hear if something happened, and the phone rings. The bomb did not go off.
The colonel is then shown to be missing one eye and some fingers from the previous attack. Men are in a meeting talking about confronting Hitler. They seem to be really suffering from Hitler's ruling, and want him out. They then talk about a bomb they are again planning to give to Hitler. Each man is given a ticket so that they are known to be in Operation Valkyrie. The plan then unfolds.
Hitler walks into a meeting room where many men who plan to assassinate him greet him, but Himmler is not there. After a long series of phone conversations, people say no, but one guy says do it. Tense music plays as he makes his way to Hitler, but somebody took the bag with the bomb in it, ruining the plan for now. There is then another meeting, where the bomb is placed very close to Hitler, he goes back to his car and the bomb goes off, possibly unsure about Hitler being dead.
Eventually, rumors keep spreading that Hitler is still alive, but the colonel refuses to believe, as he saw the explosion. An arrest is then placed on the colonel after people suspect a coup. Hitler is then on the phone with a man, and tells him to get the traitors alive, and the colonel seems to be getting a bit crazed with believing Hitler is dead. All of the men are then lined up, and then shot, up until the colonel.
I felt that this film had probably portrayed the assassination attempt well, and it let me know that a lot of people didn't respect Hitler and actually wanted him dead, but the people that were with him stopped all of the attacks. The ending was great as it gave a huge dramatic feel to the whole movie.
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