Allied

Name: Allied
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, Romance
Released: November 23, 2016
Duration: 124 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: November 23, 2016 | R

Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard

Summary: Allied is the story of intelligence officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt), who in 1942 North Africa encounters French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard) on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Reunited in London, their relationship is threatened by the extreme pressures of the war.

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Genre(s): Action, Drama, History, Thriller, Romance, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 124 min

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Rex Reed

Nov 22, 2016

Beautiful, bold and blazing with sex and suspense, Allied is a gorgeously photographed, intensely romantic, action-packed film by the great director Robert Zemeckis with two titanic star performances by Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard that delivers something for everyone. Read full review

The Film Stage Conor O'Donnell

Nov 21, 2016

Entertainment of the highest order, Allied, like a large portion of Robert Zemeckis’ work, feels like a grand ode to filmmaking of an era past. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Nov 22, 2016

On the whole, it works although perhaps not as well as it might have if the central relationship had more carefully established. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Nov 21, 2016

Allied is a decent movie, but frustrating — it should have been great, but never gets out of its own way long enough to be. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Nov 28, 2016

Allied is written by Steven Knight and directed by Robert Zemeckis, who 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. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Nov 21, 2016

Allied is slow-footed and tepid, its plot twists dopey and soapy. I was rooting for things to get interesting, but I would have settled for a few surprises. Read full review

Kate Taylor

Nov 23, 2016

Underneath all this mess there is some idea about the conflict between private love and public duty, between personal interests and those of the state, but the characters are so marginally observed by both the actors and the script there is no tension in the themes. Read full review

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damman

Dec 6, 2016

Great movie I think meta critic should band these trolls on this site. I mean people clapped at the end of the movie well everyone is entitled to their opinion but this movie is great and acting is spot on. Good job Brad

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solo-man

Jan 15, 2017

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A true movie after a long time. I have been tired of poking holes in plots and making fun of softends. This one is much better a real delight which kept me at the edge, since I was worried that it might be a softend again. We can subtract certain crappy things like the security at the RAF base being lax to the point that a family could walk in with one pass at the height of the war. But the movie kept true to theme of being a love story in the war with a hard ending .… Expand

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vineethvr18

Nov 23, 2016

Robert Zemeckis' war time romance flick which opens in Casablanca, french morocco and proceeds to London, definitely has its moments. First of all, Allied is beautifully directed with its refined characters, classy costume design, fine cinematography and editing, evocative score and aRobert Zemeckis' war time romance flick which opens in Casablanca, french morocco and proceeds to London, definitely has its moments. First of all, Allied is beautifully directed with its refined characters, classy costume design, fine cinematography and editing, evocative score and a straight forward narration. The love making in the car amidst the sandstorm was arguably the most beautiful scene of the movie, along with some other engrossing moments. The lead pair of Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard did justice to their characters, so as the rest of the Cast. This may not go down as the all time classic war drama or the best movie of the year for that matter, but definitely worth a watch.… Expand

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 24, 2021

This film is quite tense once the main plot gets going (the pace is a little slow at first) but the main appeal, to me, was the cinematography, with some decent swooping camera angles and the like. The main theme of spying or secrecy kept me intrigued for most of the film, although the twoThis film is quite tense once the main plot gets going (the pace is a little slow at first) but the main appeal, to me, was the cinematography, with some decent swooping camera angles and the like. The main theme of spying or secrecy kept me intrigued for most of the film, although the two main characters did feel to me a little flat after a while but there are some good action scenes and it was certainly an entertaining watch regardless.

I should mention that it is quite raunchy at times, with some nudity shown, so its not suitable for kids but then thats why it has a 15 rating in the UK, which seemed fair to me, not only for the sexual scenes but also in terms of the mass war related violence, with multiple gunshot scenes and the like.

If I had to pick the better performance between the two main actors, I'd say that Marion Cotillard gives the better one.

This is worth a watch but it isnt perfect either - its a decent enough war film with romance being one of the main sub-genres. Somewhere between satisfactory and good, so I'll go for a 3.5 star rating.… Expand

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Muskrat147

Dec 6, 2016

Even considering its extremely slow pacing, Allied chalks up to be a decent romantic World War II thriller with decent performances and fantastic production design.

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swing

Dec 8, 2016

Loved the costumes and the story. Loved Marion as the femme fatale. Couldn't believe Brad's character and his acting is so wooden. Lot's of unrealistic things in the movie. but it was entertaining.

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NikolayG

Dec 2, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Allied is good until the final act which "breaks" the movie. My dad trained pilots for WWII. I grew up in an environment where my parents' memories of WWII were like a backdrop. So I can say with confidence that this movie was utterly unrealistic. In London, a city being bombed day and night by Germans, a city literally being torn apart, people dying left and right, women and children being splattered to bits everywhere - a city so traumatized by the experience that to this very day they deliberately leave some of the scorched and burned parts of buildings as they were during the War to make sure no one ever forgets what was done to them, in London during WWII no one in Brad Pitt's position would have allowed the woman to escape and definitely would not have tried to run away with her. He would have shot her through the head. And any movie audience in the 1940s or 1950s would have walked out at the moment she confesses and he, instead of turning against her, tries to help her get away. It was absurd and completely unrealistic. There was a much better way to take the story that was very realistic and even more suspenseful and dramatic, but the writers apparently didn't see it. Let me put it to you this way, if Brad Pitt had not discovered his wife was a German spy but had instead discovered that she was sleeping with three different men, do you think he would have proclaimed his love and sought to help her? No, of course not. He would have kicked her out of the house. So how then can we believe that when she does something incalculably worse than that, something that contributes directly to the deaths of thousands and assists Hitler in his efforts to take over the world, that Brad Pitt would simply forgive her at the drop of a hat? It's beyond ridiculous.… Expand

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