Critics slam Cruise's latest film 'Valkyrie' Tom Cruise's performance in his latest movie 'Valkyrie' has been slammed by critics as 'distractingly bad.'     Cruise plays the character of Nazi officer Colonel Stauffenberg in the film, the mastermind behind the last known assassination plot to kill Adolf Hitler during World War II. The critics in US and in Germany have been stinging in their comments, The Daily Mail reported.Reviewers have been less than impressed with the 46-year-old actor and have insisted that Cruise is both the central figure in Valkyrie and it's weakest link. Cruise spent much of last year in Germany making the film, which became known as a 'jinxed' venture as extras were wounded during shooting, film was destroyed in a lab and had to be re-shot.There was also a rushed re-shoot of key scenes after test audiences allegedly fell asleep during secret screenings. Last week the movie was slammed by the German critics too."The only thing that can definitely be said about this cinema adventure is that Tom Cruise, who has been damaged by his bizarre talk show behaviour, may well continue storming the heights of the Scientology hierarchy as a thetan - but his image as an actor has been finally ruined by Valkyrie," wrote Taggespiegel, a German critic.     Another critic Emanuel Levy says of Cruise performance as "Arguably miscast, Cruise is stiff and unconvincing as the courageously heroic German officer.""There's a gaping hole at the centre of Valkyrie, and his name is Tom Cruise. He's the only actor in the film not doing either a British or a German accent and he spends every moment on screen glowering and purring angrily," film critic Alonso Duralde said.  ... full story »