Allied (2016) - Try Like You Have To!

★★★☆☆

If there was no Brad Pitt, I wouldn’t have checked out ‘Allied’. But as a film of Robert Zemeckis’s, who used to direct great works like ‘Forrest Gump’, ‘Contact’, ‘Flight’, ‘The Walk’, the film’s a bit of a letdown to me in fact.

The story’s nothing deep or thrilling. In the first half, he teams up with her for a mission. It’s the Assassinations. In the second, he’s told that she’s not who he thinks she is. It’s then the Investigation, which ends up pretty melancholic though. The film’s filled with nostalgia and romance. The costumes and props are well crafted to look real and convincing. The cinematography is much appreciable! If you expect a romantic spy film, ‘Allied’ would sure satisfy. It’s however, not an action kind. It’s just a made-up love story that’s able to move a bit but won’t stay in your mind for long.

The film’s a tragedy, yet another reminder that you can’t simply erase who you once were and try to move on before you’ve actually settled with it. Escaping it is not the way after all, though sometimes it seems to be the only choice, like ‘Manchester By The Sea’ tries to tell us. I guess, to avoid it coming back to haunt you over and again, you’d eventually have to face it, make peace with what made you, and accept who you are, instead of piling up lies about who you are not. Yea, I know it’s hard but you have to try, if you don’t want to end up miserable in the end!