{"id":164088,"date":"2016-11-21T03:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=164088"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T18:32:00","slug":"allied-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2016\/11\/21\/allied-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Allied Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ALLIED<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Paramount Pictures<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director:\u00a0 Robert Zemeckis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Written by: Steven Knight<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screened at: AMC 34th St., NYC, 11\/17\/16 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opens: November 23, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Movies that take place during World War II will likely be shown ten, twenty, a hundred years from now, partly, I think, because it\u2019s the one war involving the U.S. that most agree pits good against evil.\u00a0 Another is the many dramatic varieties of intimate stories that emerge.\u00a0 One such story involves Max Vatan (Brad Pitt), a Canadian intelligence officer, married during wartime to Marianne Beausejour (Marion Cotillard).\u00a0 \u201cAllied,\u201d on which director Robert Zemeckis unfolds his story, is on a large canvas indeed, but heavily focused on a romance of two people who clearly love each other.\u00a0 In the latter regard, the stellar performances by Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard evoke a powerful chemistry.\u00a0 They marry even though one officer warns that wedlock under battle conditions does not last.\u00a0 In fact the big question before the audience, one which is exquisitely milked by Zemeckis with a penetrating script by Steven Knight, becomes: is Marianne Beausejour really who she says she is, or is she, like Don Draper in the TV series \u201cMad Men,\u201d impersonating the real French woman?<\/p>\n<p>Zemeckis is well known for such films as \u201cBack to the Future,\u201d a Spielbergian sci-fi comedy-drama, and also for more intimate pics like \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d about a low IQ man who is hopeful of the future and dreams of his childhood sweetheart.\u00a0 For his part, screenwriter Steven Knight\u2019s resume includes writing the script to \u201cBurnt,\u201d about a man seeking to redeem himself with a restaurant with which he hopes to get three Michelin stars.<\/p>\n<p>The story opens in the Moroccan desert, into which Max Vatan parachutes, connecting with a ride to Casablanca, and damned if Brad Pitt doesn\u2019t conjures up the image of Humphrey Bogart as he meets the resistance fighter in a club patronized by German occupying officers.\u00a0 Max and Marianne plan to kill the German ambassador at a party, to which Max feigns no interest.\u00a0 In one of the few explosive battle scenes, the two battle with the enemy shooting-gallery style.<\/p>\n<p>There is just one problem: Marianne, with all her passion for Max, may be a spy for Germany.\u00a0 If so, she fails to obey orders, which would presumably be not to fall in love with Canadians or English or French but rather to merely pretend affection\u2014all the better for completing the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The film is nearly bereft of comic touches, one involving Max\u2019s skill as a card sharp, shuffling a deck every which way to impress a Nazi officer.\u00a0 One scene involving spectacular visual effects shows a Luftwaffe aircraft shot down, burning, and heading straight for a London building housing Marianne and Max.\u00a0\u00a0 Though a war picture on one level, the emphasis is on the love between Max and Marianne, who are a pretend couple in Casablanca but who marry when they arrive in London.\u00a0 (One woman sitting behind me commented that Cotillard and Angelina Jolie are so much alike that she would not be surprised if Brad and Marion got cozy with each other off the set.)<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for a war picture in the tradition of \u201cThirty Seconds Over Tokyo,\u201d \u201cThe Longest Day,\u201d \u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d and \u201cThe Bridge on the River Kwai,\u201d this is not the one.\u00a0 The few battle scenes are executed nicely but throughout, the principal theme remains the Max\u2019s conflict, since he is told that if his wife turns out to be a German spy, he must execute her.\u00a0 Failing that, he would himself be hanged for high treason.\u00a0 The film is based on a true story of two assassins, but wouldn\u2019t this demand be just too difficult to believe?<\/p>\n<p>Filming was on location in England, in Buckinghamshire, Hampstead and London, while the Canary Islands (Fuerteventura and Las Palmas) stand in for Casablanca. 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