Washington
(ANI):
American
actor
Tom
Cruise's
performance
in
the
movie
Valkyrie
has
been
as
considered
feeble
by
Emanuel
Levy,
a
film
critic
on
the
Hollywood
Foreign
Press.
Valkyrie,
a
movie
based
on
the
assassination
attempt
of
Adolf
Hitler
in
1944
by
his
high-ranking
army
officers,
premiered
in
the
private
screening
room
at
the
Time
Warner
Centre.
In
the
movie,
Cruise
plays
Colonel
Claus
von
Stauffenberg,
the
leader
of
the
group
plotting
the
assassination,
and
as
documented
historically,
Stauffenberg
fails
to
kill
Hitler
when
a
bomb
he
and
his
associates
rigged
blew
up
but
was
shielded
by
a
table.
Levy
has
on
his
website
given
a
description
of
the
movie
and
the
role
Cruise
played,
adding
in
a
paragraph
that
the
leading
role
should
have
been
given
to
someone
else.
"Which
brings
me
back
to
Tom
Cruise,
a
uniquely
American
star,
with
a
limited
acting
range,
that
might
not
have
been
the
best
choice
for
the
role," Fox
News
reports
him
as
having
written.
"Even
by
standards
of
his
own
career,
his
performance
in
Valkyrie
would
have
to
be
considered
feeble,
and
it
may
not
be
entirely
his
fault.
As
scripted
and
directed,
Cruise's
Stauffenberg
goes
through
the
motions
of
a
thick
plot
(in
both
senses
of
the
term),
but
seldom
conveys
the
particular
kind
of
man
he
was,
what
were
his
motivations,
what
was
his
family
life
like,
what
plans
did
he
hold
were
the
assassination
to
succeed," he
had
stated.
Levy
has
a
long
history
writing
for
major
publications
including
Variety.
His
word
is
respected,
even
at
the
Golden
Globes,
a
group
that
panders
to
movie
stars
to
get
them
on
their
TV
show.
"Arguably
miscast,
Cruise
is
stiff
and
unconvincing
as
the
courageously
heroic
German
officer.
He
speaks
with
a
distinctly
American
accent,
though
early
on,
he
utters
a
few
sentences
in
German," he
had
added.