Review of Allied (2016) by Nikolayg — 02 Dec 2016

Allied is good until the final act which "breaks" the movie. My dad trained pilots for WWII. I grew up in an environment where my parents' memories of WWII were like a backdrop. So I can say with confidence that this movie was utterly unrealistic.

In London, a city being bombed day and night by Germans, a city literally being torn apart, people dying left and right, women and children being splattered to bits everywhere - a city so traumatized by the experience that to this very day they deliberately leave some of the scorched and burned parts of buildings as they were during the War to make sure no one ever forgets what was done to them, in London during WWII no one in Brad Pitt's position would have allowed the woman to escape and definitely would not have tried to run away with her.

He would have shot her through the head. And any movie audience in the 1940s or 1950s would have walked out at the moment she confesses and he, instead of turning against her, tries to help her get away.

It was absurd and completely unrealistic. There was a much better way to take the story that was very realistic and even more suspenseful and dramatic, but the writers apparently didn't see it. Let me put it to you this way, if Brad Pitt had not discovered his wife was a German spy but had instead discovered that she was sleeping with three different men, do you think he would have proclaimed his love and sought to help her? No, of course not.

He would have kicked her out of the house. So how then can we believe that when she does something incalculably worse than that, something that contributes directly to the deaths of thousands and assists Hitler in his efforts to take over the world, that Brad Pitt would simply forgive her at the drop of a hat? It's beyond ridiculous.