Review of Allied (2016) by Axet — 25 Nov 2016

As is so often the case, but particularly outrageous here, the trailer gives this film away! It's one thing that the idiots who created and oversaw the trailer have no regard for a major twist coming a full halfway through the feature running time and chose to divulge that in favor of a marketing hook (the stars and scope were all that was needed geniuses, or alluding to it without spelling it out in the actual dialogue), but for Zemeckis to pull this s---- yet again is just beyond freaking belief! Despite their faulty reasoning for doing such, I can point to exactly how that trailer ruined the movie instantly. There are a couple shots very early in the feature, which had I not seen the stupid trailer these shots would not raise much suspicion, however having seen the trailer, these pertinent shots in the feature instantly give the ending of the movie away. To go into more detail would mean spoilers which I don't ever do on here. So holding back on divulging certain plot twists in trailers matters a great deal dummies!

The "What Lies Beneath", "Castaway" and "Flight" trailers from Zemeckis and company all gave the entire movies away (in particular key twists or resolutions) which was a minor scandal in the media way back at the time of the former two, but those were all good movies warranting viewing even with the spoilers. This is not. You're better off compressing the experience in two minutes than wasting two hours on a stale, uninspired bore that is so derivative and contrived it plays like it was made by people who have been making movies all their lives, not having lived life. The contemporized sex, violence and language don't help. Particularly the language no doubt is unrealistic for the period.

Zemeckis is a giant in Hollywood and deserves all his great success for quite a track record. He's obviously brilliant, so for him to skip out at the very last stage by blowing the trailers is simply inexcusable.