Review of Allied (2016) by Dirigiblepulp — 17 Dec 2016

A fun adventure where every scene plays extremely well and yet something still winds up missing. I think Marion Cotillard's Marianne gets the short end of the stick here. The whole movie plays off the premise of "is she or isn't she" and yet when we find out, we don't really get an idea of why besides the basic expository one.

Everything has been done when it comes to storytelling (or so they say), but it's doubly so when you don't give your characters enough life to stand out, to feel different than what's come before. And that's mostly what happens here. She's a type and not flesh and blood. It's hard to feel her pain.