Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie an Impossible Box Office Mission?
With last fall’s box-office flop “Lions for Lambs” hanging over his head, the buzz is that Tom Cruise’s $100 million film ‘Valkyrie’ is looking to be slaughtered at the box office as well.
In the film he plays Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a real-life Wehrmacht officer who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler. But as Roger Friedman pointed out, the real problem is that Cruise plays him with an eye patch, a withered limb and “a California accent reminiscent of Jerry Maguire.” Oh, snap!
