'Allied' is lackluster and without suspense
I would have thought that Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard would be聽capable of generating a lot more heat than the tiny sputtering flame聽occasionally visible in 鈥淎llied,鈥� a lackluster World War II espionage drama聽directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight without聽producing the slightest tingle of suspense.聽
Pitt plays Max Vatan, a secret聽operative from Canada who works in the British special operations, where聽he is teamed in Morocco 鈥� Casablanca, no less! 鈥� with Marianne聽Beaus茅jour聽(Cotillard), an operative assigned to pose as his wife.
Inevitably, as the scene shifts to London, these two develop real feelings聽for each other 鈥� the fake lovebirds become real ones, complete with聽marriage and a baby daughter. But the war is still raging and Allied聽secrets are inexplicably being leaked to the Germans. Is Marianne the聽culprit? It鈥檚 a measure of the film鈥檚 dullness that the answer to that聽question is far from pressing. Grade:聽C (Rated R for violence, some sexuality/nudity, language and brief drug use.)
