Allied
The movie follows a couple of intelligence officer Max Vatan and French Resistance fighter Marianne Beausejour who falls in love during a mission to kill a German official. However, their relationship is soon tested by the pressures of war.
18 December 1986, Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
1951, South Africa
16 April 1984, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
10 February 1959, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
24 August 1961, London, England, UK
30 June 1982, Los Angeles, California, USA
1990
3 March 1988, Geneva, Switzerland
1 March 1958, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
March 14, 2017
The film seem(s) top-heavy, action wise, and a bit awkward.
December 01, 2016
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)
November 25, 2016
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.
March 10, 2017
There's no denying the pair's dazzling old Hollywood star power is well-suited to a film clearly in love with the era.
April 09, 2017
Take a step back, and the film's melodramatic intrigue begins to look shaky, but there are so many sequences of high suspense you might not even notice.
December 01, 2016
Cotillard is the sole bright spot, and even she risks being upstaged by her fantastic wardrobe.
December 01, 2016
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.
March 15, 2017
Zemeckis has said in interviews that Hollywood doesn't make this kind of movie anymore. Too true. And there's an obvious reason why.
February 21, 2017
'Allied' begins as an action film with a specific mission, which then becomes a game of suspense that leads to pure and hard melodrama. [Full review in Spanish]
November 25, 2016
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.
February 22, 2017
Allied has good moments and manages to entertain with its action sequences, but unfortunately it doesn't have enough energy to impact like the movie that tries to convince us that it is. [Full review in Spanish]
November 28, 2016
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.
