Allied is Robert Zemeckis' most beautiful film to date. Headlined by two of the biggest and good looking actors in the world: Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, the two Oscar winners complimented its beautiful cinematography by frequent Zemeckis' collaborator Dan Burgess, art direction and costumes. Unfortunately, the film gets bogged down by its uneven storytelling.
Allied starts when intelligence officer Max Vatan (Pitt) lands in 1942 North Africa to aid a French resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Cotillard) in assassinating a Nazi official. There's some old Hollywood glamour infused in the film and it's a pleasure to watch it on the big screen.
Once the two fall in love and move to London, it goes downhill from there. It's hard to believe that Vatan and Beausejour wanted to start a family in the middle of the war. With their jobs, it's just not possible. When his superiors say that Vatan's wife might be a German spy, some people can easily predict the outcome.
Allied has it's moments and both Pitt and Cotillard rise above the mediocre script to give commendable performances. This is Zemeckis' love letter to the golden age of Hollywood but I wished that it was better written.
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