New ‘Valkyrie’ Trailer Has More Action… Still No Accents

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on September 26, 2008

Valkyrie has had it pretty rough the past several months. From production issues, legal troubles, and release date changes to the blind bashing against anything with Tom Cruise’s name attached to it… the advance buzz has been basically non-existent. United Artists hopes to change that with the release of a new, action-packed and more stylized trailer. Check it out below.

View the Trailer in High Definition at Yahoo Movies

More action, quick cut editing, split screens, a ticking clock, mosquito torture, and Cruise walking through his own screen credit! This trailer is a vast improvement over the previous teaser, but will it be enough to win back an audience? Haters will continue to trash Cruise for being Cruise, and director Bryan Singer has his own share of critics after the Superman Returns debacle, but those knee-jerk reactions aside the movie’s looking like it may not be as bad as people seem to expect. I get the sense that much of the “action” in the trailer is heightened (if not actually created) via the editing, but it still looks like a solid film. And then there’s the issue of the accents, or lack thereof…

People will complain (again) that Cruise and the others should be sporting German accents for historical authenticity. The logic of this argument eludes me as Germans speak German, not German-accented English. You could argue that the movie should have been filmed in German, but this is an American studio film hoping to compete for domestic box office dollars so that was never really an option.

Valkyrie is based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an officer in Nazi Germany who collaborates with the resistance to assassinate Hitler. We’ll have to wait until the film opens on December 26th to find out if he succeeds.

Also, check out the latest poster for Valkyrie below.

What do you think of the new trailer? Do you care about the lack of German accents? Do you think von Stauffenberg succeeds?

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