Valkyrie - BD Preorder

MGM Home Entertainment in conjunction with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment have announced that they will bring 'Valkyrie' to Blu-ray on May 19th, day-and-date with the DVD release. For this Tom Cruise film, video will be presented in 1.85:1 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack.







Extras for this release include:

• Commentary by Tom Cruise, Bryan Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie
• Commentary by Christopher McQuarrie and Nathan Alexander
• The Journey to Valkyrie
• The Road to Resistance: A Visual Guide
• The African Front Sequence
• Taking to the Air
• Recreating Berlin
• 92nd Street Y: Reel Pieces with Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer
• The Valkyrie Legacy
• Digital Copy

Synopsis: Unpretentious and dramatically straightforward, Valkyrie is a suspenseful yet ennobling story about the last attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler prior to the end of World War II. Tom Cruise is effective if a little opaque as hero Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who channels his anger at Hitler's atrocities and mismanagement of the war by joining a secret organization bent on killing the Führer. When the outspoken Stauffenberg hits on the idea of linking Hitler's death with an official policy to safeguard Berlin during a government crisis--a contingency plan called "Valkyrie"--the group realizes a post-assassination coup could be covered by rapidly implementing the plan. History tells us the plot failed, of course, and Hitler killed himself months later. But that doesn't stop Cruise or director Bryan Singer from approaching the film as a thinking person's thriller, told from inside the conspirators' camp, where the outcome of their deeds were uncertain for several tense hours. In the tradition of The Great Escape, Valkyrie is a war movie full of famous faces, including Kenneth Branagh, Terence Stamp, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard. (The lesser-known David Bamber is very good as Hitler, hunched and cracking under pressure.) The film's gravity is offset a bit by the fun of seeing all these actors in a factually-based slice of history, and by a few, interesting stylistic flourishes on Singer's part, including the peculiarly unsettling image of a mosquito sizzled to death in close-up.
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