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Critics Consensus: Allied has its moments, but doesn't quite achieve epic wartime romance status -- a disappointment made more profound by the dazzling talent assembled on either side of the camera.
Critic Consensus: Allied has its moments, but doesn't quite achieve epic wartime romance status -- a disappointment made more profound by the dazzling talent assembled on either side of the camera.
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Cotillard is the sole bright spot, and even she risks being upstaged by her fantastic wardrobe.
Zemeckis is a master of the big, broad Oscar-bait drama, and he makes the most of a well-constructed screenplay by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises)
Zemeckis's formidably staunch and precise technique, itself a nostalgic vestige of classic Hollywood movies, seals up the movie's joints and keeps the air of life out; it's a suffocated, lifeless adventure.
Zemeckis ... seems uncertain whether to treat the tale as a wrenching saga of split loyalties or as a glamorous jaunt. Having gathered all the ingredients for derring-do, he forgets to turn up the heat, and the derring never does.
What a handsome empty shell of a movie Allied is. Despite the star power of Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, their scenes together fail to ignite even a glimmer of a spark.
Its story and dialogue are so straightforward and comforting that even when you think you can hear the next beat coming-and you will-the finale still comes as a cathartic surprise.
About as good as "grown up" movies get this time of year
As nice as Allied is to look at, the story falls flat and lacks the tension needed to keep the audience engaged for two hours.
The talent involved really should have made Allied a fantastic film, but the final result only comes out as an entertainingly average experience. Still, we'll always have Marion Cotillard.
This spies in love drama set during World War II greatly benefits from a strong script by Steven Knight, but it can't overcome the fact that its leads seem miscast, lacking a spark in the romance that is supposed to drive the film.
Something has to be said for the old world charm that Zemeckis brings here. Unapologetically throwback, stylish, emotional -- very reminiscent of handsomely-mounted thrillers from back in the day.
Though it would benefit from being a touch shorter, Allied is a solid, sweeping war-set tale that harkens back to the golden era of the silver screen.
Dare to retool Casablanca? Are you out of yer tiny little mind?! But apparently Zemeckis has balls of brass. Unfortunately the leading man fails to arrive, mailing his performance in. This leaves Cotillard the interesting problem of performing their scenes practically all by her lonesome. A great might-have-been.
Super Reviewer
If all their spies were this deadly boring, the Germans might have won WWII.
A silly movie that believes to be romantic, sexy and tense when in fact it is only bland and banal, unable to engage us the way it wants and never audacious to come up with something clever - and its poor attempt at placing the romance above all else in the end makes it too vapid.
The first half displays the action and build up expected the travel through to the end. however it dazzles out leaving you with an unsatisfying and unsuspenseful ending!
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