The producers should have cut their losses and got the actor to fit the role and not the other way round. I would imagine Zellweger would have shone in this picture . .

I hadn't thought about that but now that you mention it, I would've loved to see her in this movie. She always does so well in period movies. Not to mention, one hell of an actress.

Yes. As I was typing in originally, it struck me, too; though the last time TC gave her a leg-up, she stole the show: THAT'S not going to happen again, I think. For all his much-vaunted professionalism, TC should learn that filmsets are not just huge G.I. Joe bases for his ego to play with - there is no way in a thousand years that he fits the bill for the part. With the exception of aforementioned J.Maguire (and, to be honest, W.o.t.World's effects), I find it hard to manage a second viewing of any of poor Tom's work.

But...Kenneth! And Eddie Izzard! Surely that must be worth something!

I knooooow. But yeah, they're definitely one of the few reasons why I'm going to see this one.

Kenneth = ♥ :D

I just don't take Tom Cruise seriously. I have to say, hilarious as this movie sounds, I feel badly for the Germans. They already hated the casting of their national hero, and now the movie just plain sucks.

Same here. They've already got SO much war guilt. X_X