‘Allied’ Review: The epic romance of a professional spy, romantic, brutal, poignant and addicting

The movie “Allied” is a suspenseful love movie released in 2016, directed by “The Walk” Robert Zemeckis, and the main actors include Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, etc.

The film’s story is set during World War II, and the plot describes two Allied spies “Max” and “Marianne” who met during an assassination mission. Disguised as husband and wife, they decided to fly away after completing the impossible task and officially marry.

Just after they lived an ordinary and happy life, Max received a message that the person beside him might be a German spy, and Max fell into the contradiction between trust and suspicion.

“Allied”: hard-won ordinary happiness

“Allied” is a rather poignant love movie. Because the background is set during the war, the whole story is a little more disturbing and turbulent, but it also reflects the hard-won “ordinary happiness”.

The actor Max, played by Brad Pitt, stepped into this vicissitudes and ruthless era step by step, and Marianne appeared.

She can kiss her husband like a kitten at home, but she can also amaze the audience like a superstar.

Also because of her straightforward personality, she unknowingly added a different color to Max’s life.

Although they are both professional spies, the two of them met, fell in love, and gave birth to a child belonging to them.

In the first half of the “Allied” story, we watched Max and Marianne as the couple “fake it for real”.

They carried out the assassination mission together, and germinated trust and dependence on each other in a thrilling and violent environment. The performance of this part of the movie was tense and romantic.

The second half focuses on Max’s dilemma about his wife’s “true face”.

When the country and the family are on the same scale, although he tried his best to prove his wife’s innocence, all kinds of unfavorable clues forced him to guess the part he didn’t know about, and the atmosphere suddenly turned heavy.

As mentioned above, “Allied” is a very romantic but relatively cruel movie.

Although I have seen many love stories with war as the background in the past, this film focuses on two people who have experienced great winds and waves together, so that the audience will follow Max into a cycle of trust and doubt.

And love can’t stand the least bit of suspicion. When the contradictions in the heart become more and more unable to extricate themselves, this relationship will gradually collapse.

The interesting part of “Allied” is definitely the struggle in my heart, which is very realistic and has a strong sense of substitution.

In addition, “Allied” is also a bit amazing in terms of visual perception, from the elegant costumes to the composition and tone of the film, and even the images of the air raid are full of poetry.

In terms of the picture, this film is definitely a boutique level, and coupled with the emotional tension of the plot, it is quite intoxicating on the whole.

Although I personally feel that the movie is a bit anticlimactic, it still does not hide its flaws.

I watched it twice when the movie was released in 2017, and relived it on TV in 2021, and both times I felt pretty good.

The actual reviews for “Allied” were mixed, though, with some reviewers saying that after watching the trailer, they thought it would be a more epic, shocking war love story.

I think “Allied” is really close to a sketch, the scene of the picture is not huge, but the inner feeling is relatively impressive.

If you like to watch romantic movies as much as I do, and you don’t reject the cruelty of war, then this movie is still worth watching.

Overall, “Allied” is a good film, but whether it is good or not depends on the audience’s expectations. If you look at it from the perspective of a “war movie”, you will inevitably be disappointed.

On the contrary, if it is cut from the perspective of “romance film”, then this film does have a profound performance, not to mention, the two leading actors Brad Pitt and Mariyon Kodia exudes full charm in the film .

When two people with powerful auras appear on the same screen, “Allied” still has an epic packaging even if the script is not thick enough.